Archive: Show #14

Your Health

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We follow a breast cancer survivor before, during, and after a breast reconstruction procedure called a tram flap. A discussion on the health risks of waiting lists. Chemistry professor Joe Schwarcz looks at astragalus.
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Jun 21, 2002
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Here’s Ontario’s latest third-wave COVID-19 modelling

A six-week stay-at-home order and high rates of vaccination are the only ways to flatten Ontario’s current pandemic curve — that and more in the latest modelling briefing.

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‘Here to support public health’: Meet one of Canada’s volunteer vaccine hunters
TVO.org speaks with Sabrina Craig, of Vaccine Hunters Canada, about why a group of Torontonians came together to gather, share, and spread information.
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COVID-19: What you need to know for April 16
 The latest coronavirus updates from across the province. 
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No consultation: Two public-health units respond to Ontario's postal-code hot spots
Many Ontarians have questions about how the province decided on its priority areas. Public-health units do, too.
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Please put a shot of AstraZeneca in my arm
OPINION: Ontario seems to be doing worse than the worst-case scenarios. We need to get doses out to as many willing people as possible.
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COVID-19: What you need to know for April 15
The latest coronavirus updates from across the province.
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Why working from home could be a disaster for public transit — and the economy

ANALYSIS: The TTC helps Toronto’s economy more than you might think. And remote work could undo those benefits.

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COVID-19: What you need to know for April 14
The latest coronavirus updates from across the province.
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Looking back on the shocking Kingston Pen riot of 1971

It wasn’t as deadly as Attica, which also happened 50 years ago. But the bloody Ontario prison riot took its share of lives.