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The bizarre characters behind the Doug Ford death threats

If nothing else, the charges laid recently against prominent anti-masker Chris Sky will stir some much-needed sympathy for the premier

Jun 07, 2021

Enzo DiMatteo

Big Pharma putting profits ahead of global health in COVID fight

Plus, Doug Ford's middle finger to Ontario, corporate media's climate cop-out, and the glow comes off Toronto Blooms in reader mail this week

Jun 07, 2021

NOW Staff

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How protecting the planet can prevent pandemics

A coalition of health organizations will propose and finance new measures, such as cutting-edge behaviour change approaches

Jun 07, 2021

David Suzuki

Get off social media and stop doomscrolling

Journalist Karen K. Ho believes limiting your internet time could make you more hopeful and optimistic

Jun 07, 2021

Norman Wilner

Pandemics past: Influenza outbreak hit Toronto like “a cyclone”

The most lethal pandemic in history claimed the lives of some 50,000 Canadians, almost as many as died in the First World War

Jun 07, 2021

Richard Longley

Toronto pandemics past: polio the paralyzer

Life after the Second World War was supposed to be safer and modern, where the only things to fear were communists, nuclear war and abduction by aliens from outer space, but children were being paralyzed by polio in droves

Jun 07, 2021

Richard Longley

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