An estimated 17,000 children are on long waiting lists for surgeries that could improve the quality of their lives.

#ThisMatters host Saba Eitizaz/ صبا اعتزاز talks to health reporter Megan Ogilvie about how the long wait to heal as kids grow: thestar.com/podcasts/this-…

1/3 Today the Toronto Star launches an ambitious project that took months to put together. It's called 'The Kids Aren't All Right' and it's about how society is failing a generation of young people, whether in health care, education, housing or community development.

Other premiers take note: Wab Kinew won the Manitoba election with bold and detailed health care promises, by André Picard theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… via Globe Opinion

Have you ever wondered how Toronto became the raccoon capital of the world? And why we have so many?

I delved into the archives to find out for this story about Toronto's 100-year war with raccoons, beautifully illustrated by Susan Kao.

Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to two COVID vaccine developers. Katalin Karikó of BioNTech and Drew Weissman of the University of Pennsylvania named co-winners, by Ivan Semeniuk theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via The Globe and Mail The Nobel Prize #COVID19 #vaccination

Ontario preparing for fall and winter virus season with shots for COVID-19, the flu and RSV thestar.com/politics/provi… via @torontostar

Accidental drug-related deaths nearly doubled during the pandemic in Ontario, according to a new ODPRN report that underscores the severity and growing complexity of the crisis, by Carly Weeks
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Ontario health ministry announced this am that it will receive doses of Moderna’s updated SPIKEVAX XBB COVID-19 vaccine later in September, with initial doses prioritized for higher risk population and more details given once doses distributed #onpoli

The horrific #Ecoli food poisoning of children in Calgary daycares underscores the unravelling of public health in Canada, by André Picard theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… via Globe Opinion

How Canada’s elderly felt the brunt of COVID-19’s Omicron variant trib.al/9S87quX

#COVID19 hospitalizations jump nearly 20% year-over-year, ICU and ER visits down, CIHI_ICIS data show, by Wency Leung theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via The Globe and Mail #CovidIsNotOver

Why another new #COVID19 variant — this time the highly mutated BA.2.86 — has scientists on alert. It’s been found in five countries — though not in Canada, by Megan Ogilvie thestar.com/news/canada/wh… via @torontostar

Another wave of COVID is on the way, along with new booster shots.

Health reporter Megan Ogilvie joins #ThisMatters host Saba Eitizaz/ صبا اعتزاز to share everything we need to know about our fourth pandemic fall:
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What’s different about the next round of COVID boosters? Megan Ogilvie explains the looming fall campaign … thestar.com/news/canada/th… via @torontostar

Remembering SARSfest, the concert that revived Toronto, 20 years later thestar.com/entertainment/… via @torontostar

Emergency closures so common that Ontario has developed a protocol | Ottawa Citizen ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new…

‘Democracy is completely thrown out the window’: How Doug Ford’s push for more housing is fuelling fears for the future of local government thestar.com/news/gta/democ… via @torontostar

NEW: Kids’ hospitals are receiving an annual $330M in new funding from Ontario Government.
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#Canada 's #WorkPermits can be an 'insurance' for tech workers at risk of losing #H1Bvisas in US and #American employers to let employees stick around in North America. This is what the Canadian govt is betting on: #immigration
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Olivia Chow says her first Toronto city council meeting as mayor will open with a motion about the refugee shelter and housing crisis. trib.al/10u7lID