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Childcare is an Essential Service and a Dysfunctional Business
With ECEs fleeing the industry and a federal childcare deal on the horizon, now is the time to fix a long-broken system.

Tracking COVID-19 in Toronto Schools
A data blog about the pandemic's effects on the city’s 800 public schools.
“Somebody Is Going to Get Hurt”
Inspections at industrial workplaces in Ontario fell nearly 30 percent in the last decade, according to analysis by The Local. In the same period, critical injuries more than doubled.
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Ward 1 — Etobicoke North
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Ward 2 — Etobicoke Centre
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Ward 3 — Etobicoke-Lakeshore
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Ward 4 — Parkdale-High Park
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Ward 5 — York South-Weston
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Ward 6 — York Centre
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Ward 7 — Humber River-Black Creek
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Ward 8 — Eglinton-Lawrence
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Ward 9 — Davenport
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Ward 10 — Spadina-Fort York
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Ward 11 — University-Rosedale
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Ward 12 — Toronto-St. Paul’s
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Ward 13 — Toronto Centre
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Ward 14 — Toronto-Danforth
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Ward 15 — Don Valley West
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Ward 16 — Don Valley East
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Ward 17 — Don Valley North
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Ward 18 — Willowdale
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Ward 19 — Beaches-East York
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Ward 20 — Scarborough Southwest
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Ward 21 — Scarborough Centre
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Ward 22 — Scarborough-Agincourt
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Ward 23 — Scarborough North
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Ward 24 — Scarborough-Guildwood
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Ward 25 — Scarborough-Rouge Park
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A Year Looking at the Numbers
For the last year, seven days a week, I’ve woken up to post the province’s COVID numbers. It turns out people don’t want data—they want someone to tell them how this all ends.

“You Can’t Stop the Spread of the Virus if You Don’t Stop it in Peel”
Not enough support, not enough testing, not enough vaccines—Peel has been neglected at every step of the pandemic, and the results have been devastating.

The Gigification of Health Care
During the pandemic, health care workers have flocked to apps like Staffy for temp work. What happens when nurses are hired like Uber drivers?

Who’s Actually Running Ontario’s Long-Term Care Homes?
Nearly 100 of Ontario’s embattled care homes are outsourced to third-party operators—an arrangement often invisible to the families that hides death rates far higher than the industry average.