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Updated 2025-06-29 05:31
Testing the limits: How Toronto’s common areas might work when COVID-19 restrictions start to loosen
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Laura Armstrong - Staff Reporter
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Hey Toronto, here’s something America could teach you about weathering COVID-19
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Edward Keenan - Washington Bureau Chief
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A ‘ghost light’ has brightened the stage for more than a month at the Royal Alex, as theatre faces its second pandemic
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Katie Daubs - Feature Writer
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COVID-19's silent spread: Evidence mounting that many infections are going undetected
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Jennifer Yang - Staff Reporter
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Ontario’s front-line workers getting pay hike of $4 an hour during pandemic
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Wendy Gillis - Staff Reporter
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Recovery site for homeless COVID-19 patients offers dignity and a pathway to housing
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Donovan Vincent - Housing Reporter
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The race is on to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s what you need to know
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May Warren - Staff Reporter
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After seven weeks, one of Ontario’s first COVID-19 patients to be intubated leaves the ICU, to applause
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Megan Ogilvie - Health Reporter
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Ontario has struggled with COVID-19 data and testing. Places that mastered both are now lifting lockdowns
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Jenna Moon - Staff Reporter,Kenyon Wallace - Inves
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Nova Scotia shooter was likely ‘grievance collector,’ says former FBI profiler
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Jeremy Nuttall - Vancouver Bureau
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From desk to front line: City redeploys hundreds of employees to shelter system during COVID-19 emergency
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Jennifer Pagliaro - City Hall Bureau
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Conservative MPs anxious to name a new leader after challenging week for Scheer
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Alex Boutilier - Ottawa Bureau
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Ontarians most likely Canadians to wear masks during COVID-19 pandemic — Quebecers least likely, survey suggests
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Nicholas Keung - Immigration Reporter
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Why you shouldn’t avoid the ER
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Star staff
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Cities around the world have seen air pollution plummet during COVID-19. Is this the beginning of Toronto’s green revolution?
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Brendan Kennedy - Investigative Reporter
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Hospitalization numbers up in COVID-19 fight
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Rob Ferguson - Queen's Park Bureau
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Chilling timeline finally lifts veil on Nova Scotia massacre, as province moves from hell toward healing
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Steve McKinley - Halifax Bureau
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In wake of N.S. shootings, here’s how police say you can be sure you’re dealing with a real officer
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Ted Fraser - Staff Reporter
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The Nova Scotia shootings began with an act of domestic abuse — and there were red flags that came before
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Douglas Quan - Vancouver Bureau,Steve McKinley - H
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‘We don’t have a playbook’: How the Nova Scotia shooting reveals barriers in Canada’s emergency alert system
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Alex McKeen - Vancouver Bureau
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Ontario’s schools could look a lot different when COVID-19 shutdown ends
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Kristin Rushowy - Queen's Park Bureau
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As Ontario gears up to reopen, we asked experts which businesses will open first — you won’t like the answer
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Joseph Hall - Feature Writer
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Twenty-two people have died at this Toronto nursing home. Two nurses say they sounded the alarm weeks ago
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Wanyee Li - Vancouver Bureau
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When Canada evacuated people from Wuhan, he slipped through the cracks. One man's story of surviving COVID-19 in China
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Evelyn Kwong - Toronto Star
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‘It’s so not over.’ Life after lockdown is coming but will we be mentally prepared for it?
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May Warren - Staff Reporter
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Doug Ford’s mother-in-law tests positive for COVID-19
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Rob Ferguson - Queen's Park Bureau,Robert Benzie -
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‘Does she work for Canada or for China?’ Conservative MP’s attack on Dr. Theresa Tam draws no comment from Andrew Scheer
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Alex Boutilier - Ottawa Bureau
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Non-essential workplaces will remain closed in Ontario until at least May 6, Premier Doug Ford says
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Robert Benzie - Queen's Park Bureau Chief
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‘We don’t know what they were firing at’: Mounties’ gunfire during hunt for N.S. mass killer under review
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Steve McKinley - Halifax Bureau
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Ontario doesn’t have a one-stop shop for information about COVID-19 deaths in long-term-care homes and hospitals. The Toronto Star built its own
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Kenyon Wallace - Investigative Reporter,Ed Tubb -
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A mobile testing team swabbed every resident in a Toronto nursing home for COVID-19. What they found is ‘saving lives’
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Kate Allen - Science and Technology Reporter
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‘It’s just creepy’: Video showing possible glimpse of Nova Scotia killer riles already on-edge community
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Kieran Leavitt - Edmonton Bureau
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Ontario and Quebec ask Ottawa to send in the military to help battle COVID-19
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Bruce Campion-Smith - Ottawa Bureau,Rob Ferguson -
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Ford government fixes legal problem that made it impossible to fight tickets during the pandemic
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Robert Benzie - Queen's Park Bureau Chief
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‘Frontline workers do not have N95s but supervisors are wearing them’: Troubling allegations emerge at care homes hit by COVID-19
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Sara Mojtehedzadeh - Work and Wealth Reporter
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More than 95% Canada’s beef comes from 3 processing plants. Two of them have COVID-19 outbreaks
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Alex Ballingall - Ottawa Bureau
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‘He didn’t hide this vehicle’: Nova Scotia killer’s fixation with police was on full display
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Douglas Quan - Vancouver Bureau
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23 million people, 6 deaths: How Taiwan tackled the COVID-19 crisis
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Star staff
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The COVID-19 pandemic is becoming a ‘heyday’ for hackers and hostile governments, report says
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Peter Edwards - Staff Reporter
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Too soon to write off Ontario’s school year, Doug Ford says
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Robert Benzie - Queen's Park Bureau Chief,Rob Ferg
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Ottawa to provide monthly payments to out-of-work students
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Bruce Campion-Smith - Ottawa Bureau
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And the winners are … congratulations to the top three finalists in the Star’s annual short story competition
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Gilbert Ngabo - Staff Reporter
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Durham first responders show support for family of couple killed in Nova Scotia mass shooting
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Reka Szekely - DurhamRegion.com
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Study looks at how to protect vulnerable personal support workers
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Megan Ogilvie - Health Reporter,Wendy Gillis - Sta
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Together, Nova Scotians mourn a massacre. Coronavirus means they must do so alone
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Alex Boyd - Calgary Bureau
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How crude oil prices go negative and why it could get ‘very ugly’ for Alberta
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Kieran Leavitt - Edmonton Bureau
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Fighting the ‘other’ pandemic: Curbing COVID-19 in care homes, shelters and jails
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Jim Rankin - Staff Reporter,Jennifer Pagliaro - Ci
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Migrant workers keep you fed. Do they need help?
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Ontario must halve the number of new COVID-19 cases to 200 or fewer a day before reopening the economy, top doctor says
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Robert Benzie - Queen's Park Bureau Chief,Rob Ferg
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Frustration mounts as CERB payments come quickly for some while others have yet to see a cent
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Rosa Saba - Calgary Bureau
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