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“Early on in this wave, we had 1,000 staff members off work every day”: UHN’s head of critical care on how ICUs are coping with the hospital crisis
City

“Early on in this wave, we had 1,000 staff members off work every day”: UHN’s head of critical care on how ICUs are coping with the hospital crisis

"Everybody’s exhausted. We’ve had people break down in tears in the middle of their shifts"

“We’re seeing triple the number of Covid patients as we did in previous waves”: A Toronto General emergency doctor on what it’s like in the ER right now
City

“We’re seeing triple the number of Covid patients as we did in previous waves”: A Toronto General emergency doctor on what it’s like in the ER right now

"We're seeing younger and healthier patients who feel truly awful with Covid"

“Staff are calling in sick every day”: How this ER nurse is coping with the Omicron surge
City

“Staff are calling in sick every day”: How this ER nurse is coping with the Omicron surge

"We're running, we're short-staffed, there are children screaming and crying. It's chaotic"

“People were yelling and calling me names”: What it’s like for health care workers to walk through hospital anti-vax protests
City

“People were yelling and calling me names”: What it’s like for health care workers to walk through hospital anti-vax protests

One ER doctor staged his own counter-protest

“I kept thinking about all the surgeries being postponed during Covid”: This ex–construction CEO is building surgical units out of shipping containers
Memoir

“I kept thinking about all the surgeries being postponed during Covid”: This ex–construction CEO is building surgical units out of shipping containers

"Each unit has two rooms, two anterooms and a nursing station, as well as its own HVAC system so there’s no cross-contamination"

“To some people, I’m not what a doctor is supposed to look like”: U of T’s med school valedictorian shares her story
City

“To some people, I’m not what a doctor is supposed to look like”: U of T’s med school valedictorian shares her story

“Maybe a young person who looks like me is watching my address and thinking that she would like to be a doctor one day”

“There aren’t enough doctors up there”: A finance worker turned ER doctor flew to the Northwest Territories to work the front lines
City

“There aren’t enough doctors up there”: A finance worker turned ER doctor flew to the Northwest Territories to work the front lines

On April 19, I left Toronto for Fort Smith, via Edmonton. My journey was bizarre

Doctors are rebelling against Ontario’s crumbling healthcare system

Doctors are rebelling against Ontario’s crumbling healthcare system

There's no easy cure for a system as sick as ours

QUOTED: Prime-Minister-in-Waiting Rob Ford thinks public-funded healthcare is stupid
City

QUOTED: Prime-Minister-in-Waiting Rob Ford thinks public-funded healthcare is stupid

A Life Interrupted: Hassan Rasouli’s journey from an earache to a high-stakes battle over end-of-life decisions
Life

A Life Interrupted: Hassan Rasouli’s journey from an earache to a high-stakes battle over end-of-life decisions

The Argument: Why is quintessentially American writer Richard Ford’s new novel about Canada?
City

The Argument: Why is quintessentially American writer Richard Ford’s new novel about Canada?

City
A report recommends three safe-injection sites in Toronto, but the province doesn’t agree
Are Rob Ford’s proposed 2012 budget cuts essentially equivalent to health care cuts?
City

Are Rob Ford’s proposed 2012 budget cuts essentially equivalent to health care cuts?

Michelle Dean: I ♥ N.Y. (Not T.O.)
City

Michelle Dean: I ♥ N.Y. (Not T.O.)

Tim Hudak spent his life climbing the Tory ladder and now he has a shot at taking over Queen’s Park—but can he convince voters he’s more than just Mike Harris lite?
City

Tim Hudak spent his life climbing the Tory ladder and now he has a shot at taking over Queen’s Park—but can he convince voters he’s more than just Mike Harris lite?

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Private School Directory

The Independent and Private School Directory Spring 2022
Private Schools

The Independent and Private School Directory Spring 2022

Big Stories

This family built their off-grid dream house for less than $1,000
Real Estate

This family built their off-grid dream house for less than $1,000

The true story of the $46-million heist that shocked the crypto world
City

The true story of the $46-million heist that shocked the crypto world

Tales of love and resilience from Little Ukraine
City

Tales of love and resilience from Little Ukraine

Toronto’s best new restaurants 2022
Food & Drink

Toronto’s best new restaurants 2022

This man would like your attention
City

This man would like your attention

I was forced into an arranged marriage at 17
Memoir

I was forced into an arranged marriage at 17

Toronto’s first family of cheese
City

Toronto’s first family of cheese

Twenty-five reasons to love Toronto now
City

Twenty-five reasons to love Toronto now

Inside a high-stakes flight from a crumbling country
Life

Inside a high-stakes flight from a crumbling country

The twisted mind of a serial romance scammer
City

The twisted mind of a serial romance scammer

What should the post-pandemic workplace look like?
City

What should the post-pandemic workplace look like?

How director Domee Shi turned Toronto into a pastel Pixar wonderland
Culture

How director Domee Shi turned Toronto into a pastel Pixar wonderland

How I learned the horrifying truth about my biological father
Memoir

How I learned the horrifying truth about my biological father

Inside a $4-billion family feud
City

Inside a $4-billion family feud

Fifteen mesmerizing photos that reveal the lives of Torontonians in the 1960s and ’70s
City

Fifteen mesmerizing photos that reveal the lives of Torontonians in the 1960s and ’70s

Behind the scenes of an $11-billion subway war
City

Behind the scenes of an $11-billion subway war

Dispatches from the weirdest university year ever
Life

Dispatches from the weirdest university year ever

<em>Toronto Life&#8217;</em>s top longreads of 2021
City

Toronto Life’s top longreads of 2021

Fired for being female
City

Fired for being female

The winter hater&#8217;s guide to loving winter
City

The winter hater’s guide to loving winter

Great Spaces

Inside Vettä Nordic Spa, an indoor-outdoor Finnish pleasure palace in Oro-Medonte
Style

Inside Vettä Nordic Spa, an indoor-outdoor Finnish pleasure palace in Oro-Medonte

Best Dressed

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Trish, Mac &#038; Matty Matheson, the ultimate nonconformists

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Trish, Mac & Matty Matheson, the ultimate nonconformists

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Fashion director George Antonopoulos

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Fashion director George Antonopoulos

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Fitness model and anti-blogger Sasha Exeter

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Fitness model and anti-blogger Sasha Exeter

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Brian A. Richards, potential future face of fashion in Toronto

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Brian A. Richards, potential future face of fashion in Toronto

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Artsy supercouple Jeffrey &#038; Lucia Remedios

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Artsy supercouple Jeffrey & Lucia Remedios

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