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COVID-19: Older caregivers struggling with extra burdens of home care

COVID-19: Older caregivers struggling with extra burdens of home care

Older caregivers report unprecedented and unrelenting levels of responsibility, stress and isolation due to COVID-19 and pandemic-related protocols
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ONTARIO: Man charged after allegedly showing fraudulent COVID-19 test at Toronto airport

ONTARIO: Man charged after allegedly showing fraudulent COVID-19 test at Toronto airport

Police say it happened Monday evening at one of the airport's Canada Border Services Agency checkpoints
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COVID-19: How the pandemic could transform non-profit organizations

COVID-19: How the pandemic could transform non-profit organizations

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how non-profit organizations operate and how they’re funded
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ONTARIO: Experts say race for COVID drugs dogged by false promises, lack of co-ordination

ONTARIO: Experts say race for COVID drugs dogged by false promises, lack of co-ordination

Doctor calls on more more co-ordination to develop antiviral therapies
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COVID-19: How to help artists, cultural industries recover from the pandemic

COVID-19: How to help artists, cultural industries recover from the pandemic

We need to look beyond immediate relief, profs say
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COVID-19: Air Canada to temporarily cut at least 1,500 jobs, suspend 17 foreign routes

COVID-19: Air Canada to temporarily cut at least 1,500 jobs, suspend 17 foreign routes

Air Canada will temporarily suspend service on 17 routes to the U.S. and other international destinations until at least April 30
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CANADA: Threat from variants means provinces must be ready to lock down again quickly, Tam says

CANADA: Threat from variants means provinces must be ready to lock down again quickly, Tam says

Tam's words come as Trudeau takes another step toward keeping more variants from getting into Canada, with a plan to start making people arriving in Canada by land show a recent negative COVID-19 test
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COVID-19: World economy will lose trillions if poor countries shorted on vaccines, OECD says

COVID-19: World economy will lose trillions if poor countries shorted on vaccines, OECD says

Global economy could lose as much as $9.2 trillion, the Paris-based organization warns
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CANADA: Feds lay out criteria for quarantine hotels

CANADA: Feds lay out criteria for quarantine hotels

The government has not said when the measure, which aims to head off COVID-19 cases and contagious variants of the novel coronavirus at the border, will come into effect
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COVID-19: Chinese-Canadians voice worries about racism, job losses one year in to pandemic

COVID-19: Chinese-Canadians voice worries about racism, job losses one year in to pandemic

Amy Go, the president of the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice, said the pandemic has resulted in an array of attacks directed at the community
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