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“Two weeks after I started my job in long-term care, I tested positive”: a PSW tells her story
City

“Two weeks after I started my job in long-term care, I tested positive”: a PSW tells her story

"I lost one co-worker to Covid and I know many more who tested positive"

How Ontario’s long-term care homes became houses of horror
City

How Ontario’s long-term care homes became houses of horror

Disease. Starvation. Staff walkouts: a damning portrait of a system in chaos

“I’ve seen people dancing on their balconies”: This nurse and saxophonist plays outdoor concerts for locked-down seniors’ homes
Life

“I’ve seen people dancing on their balconies”: This nurse and saxophonist plays outdoor concerts for locked-down seniors’ homes

When Ivgeni Kriger moved from Israel to Toronto in 2016, he combined his two passions: music and nursing

We got married outside my 96-year-old grandmother’s nursing home window
Life

We got married outside my 96-year-old grandmother’s nursing home window

Inside an al fresco micro wedding at a Korean nursing home

“I know nothing about my dad’s final moments. Was he scared? Was he in pain?”: What it’s like to lose a parent in a long-term care facility
Life

“I know nothing about my dad’s final moments. Was he scared? Was he in pain?”: What it’s like to lose a parent in a long-term care facility

“In the span of two hours I found out that he was in the hospital, then that he was on oxygen and, finally, that he'd died"

“I can’t ask the staff to do something I won’t do myself”: When his facility had a Covid outbreak, this long-term care CEO stepped up to nurse patients himself
Life

“I can’t ask the staff to do something I won’t do myself”: When his facility had a Covid outbreak, this long-term care CEO stepped up to nurse patients himself

“The first day I went to work in the dementia ward, I wanted to throw up. I was scared shitless”

“This is unlike any work I’ve done. You can’t even stop to grieve”: Why a retired homicide detective and his son are volunteering at a long-term care facility
City

“This is unlike any work I’ve done. You can’t even stop to grieve”: Why a retired homicide detective and his son are volunteering at a long-term care facility

“Of the 80 workers who were usually there, only eight remained”

“I would move mountains to see him”: A Toronto family borrowed a bucket truck to visit their grandfather through a third-floor hospital window
Life

“I would move mountains to see him”: A Toronto family borrowed a bucket truck to visit their grandfather through a third-floor hospital window

“My grandfather’s room faces a parking lot. We decided to lift my mom up the side of the building”

“You can’t give someone a bath from six feet away”: What it’s like to work at a long-term care facility right now
City

“You can’t give someone a bath from six feet away”: What it’s like to work at a long-term care facility right now

“Early on in the pandemic, there was a lot of emphasis placed on preparing hospitals, but not for preparing long-term care homes”

Big Stories

“I’m a front-line worker. I live in my car. And I’m not unique”: a memoir about being homeless during Covid
Memoir

“I’m a front-line worker. I live in my car. And I’m not unique”: a memoir about being homeless during Covid

The miserable truth about online school
City

The miserable truth about online school

They were first in line for the vaccine: “I felt so lucky—like this might be the beginning of the end of this nightmare”
City

They were first in line for the vaccine: “I felt so lucky—like this might be the beginning of the end of this nightmare”

Inside the mind-bending business of keeping a restaurant alive during a pandemic: a memoir from Toronto’s top chef
Memoir

Inside the mind-bending business of keeping a restaurant alive during a pandemic: a memoir from Toronto’s top chef

A cooped-up, stressed-out urbanite’s guide to the longest winter ever
Memoir

A cooped-up, stressed-out urbanite’s guide to the longest winter ever

“I lost three patients in 36 hours”: a memoir from the Covid ward at TGH
Memoir

“I lost three patients in 36 hours”: a memoir from the Covid ward at TGH

“My parents sent me to boarding school near Toronto. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult”
Life

“My parents sent me to boarding school near Toronto. It turned out to be a perverse fundamentalist cult”

<em>Toronto Life&#8217;</em>s top 10 longreads of 2020
Deep Dives

Toronto Life’s top 10 longreads of 2020

They survived Covid, but they&#8217;re not okay
Life

They survived Covid, but they’re not okay

The Bay Street ex-con who fooled his investors—twice
City

The Bay Street ex-con who fooled his investors—twice

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