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The Big Story
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COVID-19 and domestic violence: A meeting of two pandemicsShelters and advocates and even governments have sounded the alarm about what our efforts to stay in our homes and battle COVID-19 means for people who have an abusive partner. Man…
How a health reporter does her job when every story is urgentHealth stories are basically the only stories now. There are reams of sometimes-conflicting data, no shortage of sources (though some are much better than others) and someone has t…
A Canadian experiment looks for a ‘Hail Mary’ COVID-19 treatmentIt's been used in desperate times of disease for a century—but there's never been a large-scale study of its effectiveness. It's relatively simple to administer, but requires a lot…
A guide to COVID-19 scams and how to protect yourselfA global pandemic has trapped most of us inside our homes. We're cut off from friends and family. We're scared and lonely and worried about our jobs and the rent or the mortgage. W…
How many restaurants will survive this Spring?An early estimate says perhaps one in 10 non-chain restaurants have already closed for good. This month could add 15-20% more. The hospitality industry depends so closely on incomi…
How a Nfld. funeral home became the centre of Canada’s biggest COVID-19 outbreakWhen Shannon Fleming's loved ones gathered to mourn her passing, there hadn't yet been any official bans on gatherings of this size in Newfoundland. Attendees remember it as a norm…
COVID-19’s great mask debateEveryone you know probably has an opinion on whether or not we should be wearing masks outside. So does Canada's chief public health officer—and her opinion has evolved over the pa…
How COVID-19 is changing B.C.’s approach to the opioid crisisPandemics force us into a lot of changes that otherwise might never have been made. Some of those changes are horrible choices between 'bad' and 'worse'. But not every one of them.…
What it’s like to have COVID-19 (but not get tested)The novel coronavirus presents in different ways for different people, and that means that experts think we're likely missing lots of cases due to mild symptoms, test shortages or…
A stealth virus, the missing infected and playing the long game: Inside the COVID-19 numbersPOP QUIZ! If a province's report says it has 426 new cases of COVID-19 in one day, which brings the provincial total to 2392 and represents a 22% increase day-over-day—but the numb…
Montreal faces a rental crisis in a pandemicFor decades, the image of Montreal apartments has been a lure to the rest of Canada: Huge, spacious units in beautiful old walkups, for prices that wouldn't get you a basement in m…
How to stay positive in self-isolationThese are stressful times, to put it lightly. And the message from Canada's health officials is that there's no clear end in sight for physical distancing measures. As we go longer…
Hospitals plan for the worst, as a community steps upThe last time we talked to Dr. Michael Warner, he was headed in a week leading his time in the critical care unit at a Toronto hospital. He joins us to update what teams at hospita…
Canada’s COVID-19 aid package and youDo you qualify? How much will you get? For how long? What if you still have a tiny bit of income, but it's not enough to live on? What if you're already on EI? What if you haven't…
