A Week After Launching RAT Tracker, We’re Still in the Dark
…Year’s Day, The Local launched RAT Tracker, a tool for anonymous reporting of rapid antigen test results among students in Toronto’s public schools. It was created to solve an emerging…
Tracking COVID-19 in Toronto Schools
…many of you are eager for information that will give you some sense of what the school environment will be like. Unfortunately, all of the daily information School Tracker had…
RAT Tracker
…in-person schooling. How does RAT Tracker work? RAT Tracker is a citizen-powered tool for anonymous reporting of RAT results—positive and negative—for Toronto students. Prior to the winter break, each student…
Hot Spot Tracker
…After taking last week off to work with my colleague Nick Hune-Brown on an in-depth story about second doses, the Hot Spot Tracker is back in action this week. With…
Policing the Opioid Crisis
…Kolla, a PhD candidate at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, has been working in harm reduction for over a decade. “What we hear…
The Health Effects of Anti-Black Racism
…Alliance and a PhD candidate at York University, says that experiences like London’s — feeling like doctors aren’t taking you seriously and are treating other more kindly and efficiently —…
When Emergencies Aren’t Urgent
…of differences in how mainland Chinese immigrants perceive the healthcare system and how they use it,” said Han, a PhD candidate in Communication and Culture at York University. Her research…
Where the Pandemic Hit Hardest
…Finch,” says Sam Tecle, 36, a PhD candidate in sociology at York University who grew up in a highrise apartment building off of Finch Avenue West. “Housing here is very…
Fighting Vaccine Hesitancy at Alternative Schools
…alternative schooling. “The belief within Waldorf is that childhood illness develops the child’s fortitude” drop Umair Majid, a PhD candidate from the University of Toronto, has been studying vaccine hesitancy…
Why a Two-Kilometre Strip of Yonge Street Has the Highest Life Expectancy in Toronto
…Aboelzahab, a PhD candidate at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto who studies how pharmacists can support newcomers and international students as they transition to…
The Other Epidemic in Toronto’s Schools
…administration’s Ontario Class Size Tracker (the current government isn’t publishing this data) shows that the number of split classrooms in the TDSB has grown significantly over the last two decades….
When Seniors Wander
…to take him for walks a few times a week. They put a tracker on his keys. They installed an Echo Show in their parents’ living room, essentially a two-way…