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Quarantini, Zoom bombing : Experts say new words are helping people cope with COVID-19

TORONTO From... Iannozzi, a linguist at Western University in London, Ont., told CTVNews.ca the creation of these new words reflect... those things, Iannozzi said. Because of...
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Measles vaccination rates matter in the fight against COVID. In Ontario, that’s cause for concern. Check where your child’s school ranks

... will likely require the vaccination of school kids. In Ontario, ... a problem. A Star analysis of immunization data for 1.5... in vaccinations for measles, one of the world’s most...
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U.S. vaccine rollout vastly outpacing Canada s: what can we learn from American push?

... may be coming across photos of their American peers bearing... COVID 19. A recent ramping up of the United States s... says that while the speed of the American rollout...
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What will the path out of the pandemic look like? Experts say COVID-19 will one day resemble the common cold

... predict will happen once most of the population becomes immune... we will never be rid of COVID 19. The virus will... bodies are primed to fight off unknown pathogens —...
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Public health chair says keeping restrictions in place gives Toronto a chance to avoid a third wave of COVID-19

Toronto has a chance of avoiding a deadly third wave of COVID 19, now that the... city and Peel region, city officials said Friday. The end of the worst of...
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The employer with Toronto’s largest COVID-19 outbreak doesn’t have paid sick days. What does new data tell us about which workplaces are hardest hit?

The site of Toronto’s largest workplace outbreak does... a protection the city’s medical officer has called “critical” to slow the spread of COVID 19 . Some 94... positive for the...
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Expected influx of COVID-19 vaccines to test provincial promises of mass inoculations

An expected influx of COVID 19 vaccine deliveries beginning... head straight into the arms of a winter weary public... says David A. Johnston, director of York University s George Weston...
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‘We’re not ignoring this’: New Peel police board chair vows that change is coming

... listen to the burning concerns of the diverse communities he... and protest over a series of injuries and deaths following... year. “We recognize the demands of the community, particularly...
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This isn t a wave, it s a forest fire : experts predict rise of COVID-19 variant cases in Canada

TORONTO Infectious... modelers are sounding alarm bells of an approaching third wave... driven by more contagious variants of the virus. But while... 2, especially in populous...
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Virus mutations are a sign that COVID-19 might never go away

... our window to rid ourselves of it Now that it... with us for the rest of our lives Or is... too late for that kind of optimism. Its leaders...
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‘I don’t know why this happened.’ Father of young man killed in Toronto shooting says he was a dedicated student, hard worker

... Berchie, 23, had just graduated university and was looking forward... this happened.” On the night of the shooting, Berchie told... the trauma centre. The condition of the other passenger...
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CDC study finds two masks are better than one vs. COVID-19

... slowing coronavirus spread, but health officials stopped short of recommending that everyone double... on Wednesday reported the results of a lab experiment that... cloth blocked around 40 of...
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Today’s coronavirus news: WHO says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab

... will use the 443, 000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID 19 vaccine the. will receive over the course of February to vaccinate people under the age of 55. Regulators in the country...
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Top telecoms took in almost a quarter-billion dollars from Canada’s wage-subsidy program — and kept paying dividends

... in support payments as part of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy CEWS . Since the beginning of the pandemic, the three... and Rogers have also laid off workers at their...
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New side-effect of COVID-19: A sudden surge in applications for nursing school

... or make the move to Toronto to study nursing at Ryerson University. He chose nursing. “I... tirelessly, ” says Creer. “A part of me wanted to defer... students right now,...
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Toronto’s first reported cases of new COVID-19 variants were ‘inevitable’ but raise concern, experts say

Toronto Public Health on Sunday confirmed the city’s first cases of two COVID 19 variants that... P.1 was identified in a Toronto resident, currently hospitalized, who... It was the first...
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The Saturday Debate: Should private long-term care be abolished?

... in Ontario. Many pin part of the blame on for profit ownership models of many of the homes, including Warren Smokey Thomas, president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union....
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Travellers fined for refusing COVID-19 tests at Pearson

... found at least 32 cases of the virus, and Peel... The tests have been required of all arriving passengers from... at detecting more contagious variants of the virus that...
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Antiviral treatment may prevent severe COVID-19 cases, help curb community spread, study says

In a study of 60 COVID 19 outpatients, doctors in Toronto found that those given an injection of interferons called peginterferon lambda were. to quickly reduce the amount of novel coronavirus...
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The giant among giraffes : The legacy of Canadian biologist Anne Innis Dagg

TORONTO Its... most Canadians have never heard of giraffe expert and Canadian... almost everyone knows the story of Jane Goodall, the British... Africa to study the...