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• Ontario nurses left 'terrified to go to work' asking courts to force long-term care homes to provide PPE

  22-04-2020 23:55
  
  An association representing Ontario nurses is seeking a court order that would force some long term-care homes to provide staff with PPE, claiming that without urgent intervention residents and staff will continue to transmit COVID-19.
  
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• Ontario long-term care nurses make shocking allegations about access to PPE during pandemic

  22-04-2020 23:55
  
  An association representing Ontario nurses is seeking a court order that would force some long term-care homes to provide staff with PPE, claiming that without urgent intervention residents and staff will continue to transmit COVID-19.
  
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• Man dressed as cop stopping drivers to ask if they are essential workers, OPP says

  22-04-2020 23:39
  
  Ontario Provincial Police are warning the public about a man who allegedly impersonated a police officer and stopped vehicles to question drivers about whether they were “essential workers.”
  
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• How people with neuro-differences and disabilities are staying connected during the pandemic

  22-04-2020 23:23
  
  For many Canadians, staying home in recent weeks has been a challenge. For 23 year-old Madison Cray, the experience has also been, at times, confusing.
  
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• Toronto man awaiting murder trial seeks bail citing COVID-19 outbreak at jail - CTV News

  22-04-2020 23:21
  
  Toronto man awaiting murder trial seeks bail citing COVID-19 outbreak at jail  CTV News
  
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• Toronto man awaiting murder trial seeks bail citing COVID-19 outbreak at jail

  22-04-2020 23:21
  
  A Toronto man charged with first-degree murder in the "senseless" and "pointless" killing of a 24-year-old man in 2017 is seeking bail based partially on the grounds that he is highly susceptible to contracting COVID-19 in the facility he is being held in.
  
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• Toronto van attack families await 'important step' in healing as 2nd anniversary approaches - CBC.ca

  22-04-2020 22:43
  
  Toronto van attack families await 'important step' in healing as 2nd anniversary approaches  CBC.ca
  
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• 'A second chance': Ontario woman beats COVID-19 after 2 weeks in a coma

  22-04-2020 22:40 via cbc.ca
  
  Bradford woman Julie Lingan spent two weeks on a ventilator and in a coma after contracting COVID-19, but now is back home with her family.
  
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• Toronto van attack families await 'important step' in healing as 2nd anniversary approaches

  22-04-2020 22:24 via cbc.ca
  
  Life under the pall of COVID-19 has given Nick D'Amico time to think. Sometimes he thinks too much — mostly about his sister — and his thoughts fall down a black hole.
  
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• Uncertain fall ahead for colleges and universities as pandemic continues

  22-04-2020 22:18
  
  Canadian colleges and universities are developing contingency plans to deliver classes in the fall, as students prepare for an uncertain semester due to COVID-19.
  
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• Coronavirus: Toronto’s High Park to temporarily close in effort to stop cherry blossom crowds - Global News

  22-04-2020 21:59
  
  Coronavirus: Toronto’s High Park to temporarily close in effort to stop cherry blossom crowds  Global News
  
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• Celebrating Earth Day’s 50th anniversary — at home

  22-04-2020 21:51 via cbc.ca
  It’s the first Earth Day where people aren't able to go out and participate in community cleanups, but Talia Ricci shows us how you can still take part.
  
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• Ford says he's tried to push health officials to act faster on long-term care amid pandemic

  22-04-2020 21:50
  
  Facing a slew of questions around the provincial government’s slow response to widespread COVID-19 testing and infection control protocols in long-term care homes, Premier Doug Ford said he has had no choice but to rely on the advice of public health experts amid the pandemic.
  
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• Ford says he's tried to push health officials to act faster on long-term care

  22-04-2020 21:50
  
  Facing a slew of questions around the provincial government’s slow response to widespread COVID-19 testing and infection control protocols in long-term care homes, Premier Doug Ford said he has had no choice but to rely on the advice of public health experts amid the pandemic.
  
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• This bakery factory outlet in Toronto is now doing next-day home delivery - blogTO

  22-04-2020 21:48
  
  This bakery factory outlet in Toronto is now doing next-day home delivery  blogTO
  
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• Toronto is getting a social distancing version of Summerlicious - blogTO

  22-04-2020 21:40
  
  Toronto is getting a social distancing version of Summerlicious  blogTO
  
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• 8 best 'one-hit wonders' in Toronto Raptors history | Offside - Daily Hive

  22-04-2020 21:37
  
  8 best 'one-hit wonders' in Toronto Raptors history | Offside  Daily Hive
  
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• Toronto reports 210 dead of COVID-19 as city to close High Park amid cherry blossom bloom

  22-04-2020 21:21 via cbc.ca
  
  A total of 210 people were reported to have died of COVID-19 in Toronto as city officials announced plans close High Park when its cherry blossoms are in bloom.
  
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• COVID-19 has killed 210 people in Toronto, over half of deaths in long-term care homes - CBC.ca

  22-04-2020 21:21
  
  COVID-19 has killed 210 people in Toronto, over half of deaths in long-term care homes  CBC.ca
  
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• COVID-19 has killed 210 people in Toronto, over half of deaths in long-term care homes

  22-04-2020 21:21 via cbc.ca
  
  City officials are urging the public to continue practising physical distancing and will block access to High Park to stop people from congregating there to view its famed cherry blossoms.
  
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• City officials to provide update on COVID-19

  22-04-2020 21:21 via cbc.ca
  
  City officials are scheduled to provide an update on the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Wednesday.
  
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• Toronto Is On Track To Having One Of The Coldest Aprils In History - Narcity Canada

  22-04-2020 20:43
  
  Toronto Is On Track To Having One Of The Coldest Aprils In History  Narcity Canada
  
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• 15 garden centre delivery options in Toronto for all your soil needs - blogTO

  22-04-2020 20:31
  
  15 garden centre delivery options in Toronto for all your soil needs  blogTO
  
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• Mustang filmed doing doughnuts at Yonge and Dundas, police now searching for driver

  22-04-2020 20:02 via cbc.ca
  
  A video posted to social media Tuesday shows a black Mustang spinning out, with its wheels squealing, at least fives times in the middle of the typically-busy intersection.
  
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• Hospital ordered to help Pickering long-term care home with 100-plus COVID-19 cases, 31 deaths

  22-04-2020 20:00
  
  Durham Region has issued an order to move some hospital resources to a long-term care home in Pickering, Ont., where more than 100 staff and residents have tested positive for COVID-19 and 31 people have died.
  
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• ‘He had no fighting chance’: Daughter furious after father dies of COVID-19 in Ontario long-term care home

  22-04-2020 20:00
  
  A woman whose father died of the novel coronavirus in a Pickering, Ont. long-term care home says families have been left in the dark about the 31 deaths, staffing shortages and more than 100 cases of the disease.
  
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• 'He had no fighting chance': Daughter furious after father dies of COVID-19 in long-term care home

  22-04-2020 20:00
  
  A woman whose father died of the novel coronavirus in a Pickering, Ont. long-term care home says families have been left in the dark about the 31 deaths, staffing shortages and more than 100 cases of the disease.
  
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• Families say they’re left in the dark as Pickering long-term care home battles COVID-19 outbreak

  22-04-2020 20:00
  
  Families say they’ve been left in the dark about the 31 deaths, staffing shortages and more than 100 cases of COVID-19 at a Pickering, Ont. long-term care home.
  
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• Toronto sleeping in later during pandemic, electricity stats reveal - CityNews

  22-04-2020 19:04
  
  Toronto sleeping in later during pandemic, electricity stats reveal  CityNews
  
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• GTA home sales down 69 per cent mid-way through April

  22-04-2020 18:35 via cbc.ca
  
  Sales are down the most in two distinct segments of the GTA home market: condos, and higher-end detached houses.
  
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• Toronto doctor fighting COVID-19 in New York sees 'light at the end of the tunnel'

  22-04-2020 18:29 via cbc.ca
  
  Dr. Pasha Khalid, a Toronto-born cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, spoke with Dwight Drummond about how the city is dealing with the pandemic and what's next.
  
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• Toronto BBQ joint shut down after lease terminated by landlord - blogTO

  22-04-2020 18:23
  
  Toronto BBQ joint shut down after lease terminated by landlord  blogTO
  
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• Less than 10 per cent of Toronto businesses say they'll survive a few more months of forced closure - blogTO

  22-04-2020 18:13
  
  Less than 10 per cent of Toronto businesses say they'll survive a few more months of forced closure  blogTO
  
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• 2020 Property Tax Deferral Schedule for Greater Toronto Area - Toronto Storeys

  22-04-2020 17:46
  2020 Property Tax Deferral Schedule for Greater Toronto Area  Toronto Storeys
  
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• Watch: One of Toronto's busiest intersections shut down by Mustang doing donuts - Driving

  22-04-2020 17:39
  
  Watch: One of Toronto's busiest intersections shut down by Mustang doing donuts  Driving
  
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• Grassroots initiative helps find low-cost rentals for frontline workers during pandemic

  22-04-2020 17:29
  
  For health-care workers on the frontlines battling the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the biggest challenges is self-isolation, staying far enough away from their loved ones so that if they do contract the virus, they don’t carry it home with them.
  
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• Ford says schools will be among last to open in Ontario - Toronto Sun

  22-04-2020 17:28
  
  Ford says schools will be among last to open in Ontario  Toronto Sun
  
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• NWHL Expands To Toronto, Franchise Will Be Owned And Operated By Women - Forbes

  22-04-2020 17:24
  NWHL Expands To Toronto, Franchise Will Be Owned And Operated By Women  Forbes
  
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• Police searching for driver of Mustang caught on video doing donuts in downtown Toronto

  22-04-2020 17:11
  
  Police are still searching for the driver of a Mustang seen doing numerous loud, rubber-steaming donuts in the intersection of Yonge and Dundas streets on Monday night.
  
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• Charges laid after stunt driver shuts down Yonge and Dundas intersection

  22-04-2020 17:11
  
  Police have charged the alleged driver of a Mustang seen doing numerous loud, rubber-steaming donuts at the intersection of Yonge and Dundas streets on Monday night.
  
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• Toronto will start tracking race-based COVID-19 data, even if province won't

  22-04-2020 17:03 via cbc.ca
  
  Toronto’s public health unit has started the process of developing its own system to collect data sets for COVID-19, including race-based data.
  
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• Toronto housing enters deep freeze as sales sink 69% - BNNBloomberg.ca

  22-04-2020 17:03
  
  Toronto housing enters deep freeze as sales sink 69%  BNNBloomberg.ca
  
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• Toronto Film Festival Considers Digital Options in Post-Coronavirus World (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety

  22-04-2020 17:01
  
  Toronto Film Festival Considers Digital Options in Post-Coronavirus World (EXCLUSIVE)  Variety
  
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• Coronavirus: 61% of Toronto businesses would close down in 3 months, survey says - Global News

  22-04-2020 16:38
  Coronavirus: 61% of Toronto businesses would close down in 3 months, survey says  Global News
  
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• GM shuts down Maven car-sharing program in Toronto amid COVID-19 - Driving

  22-04-2020 16:36
  
  GM shuts down Maven car-sharing program in Toronto amid COVID-19  Driving
  
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• Ontario reports 510 new cases of COVID-19, 37 more deaths

  22-04-2020 16:30
  
  Ontario health officials have confirmed an additional 510 cases of COVID-19 as well as 37 more deaths.
  
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• Three Toronto men get life in prison as judge slams 'childish' murder of innocent electrical engineer - Toronto.com

  22-04-2020 16:15
  
  Three Toronto men get life in prison as judge slams 'childish' murder of innocent electrical engineer  Toronto.com
  
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• 6 Work From Home Jobs In Toronto That Pay Over $100,000 A Year - Narcity Canada

  22-04-2020 15:51
  
  6 Work From Home Jobs In Toronto That Pay Over $100,000 A Year  Narcity Canada
  
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• Expect your Tim Hortons workers to wear masks now, coffee giant says

  22-04-2020 15:25 via cbc.ca
  
  Tim Hortons workers will now wear masks and have their temperatures checked before shifts, the chain announced Wednesday in its latest business change amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
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• Sales of Toronto homes down 70% compared to same time last year - blogTO

  22-04-2020 15:22
  
  Sales of Toronto homes down 70% compared to same time last year  blogTO
  
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