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Ontario Tech drive provides laptops to seniors at Bowmanville Older Adult Association - globalnews.ca - county Ontario - county Durham
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Whitby man trades Canadian maple syrup for football scarves “It’s eye opening; it’s going to make things a lot better. The best thing would be to be able to out doing what we used to do, but this will help remove some of that isolation,” said Bowman.It’s part of an initiative by Ontario Tech Universiy, which kicked off last month.
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Ontario quadriplegic mother applies for MAID over lack of access to disability supports - globalnews.ca - county Ontario - county Durham
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In a video that has gone viral on TikTok, an Ontario quadriplegic mother of three says she has just days left before she can access medical assistance in dying (MAID) yet she is unable to access disability support.
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Children’s book based in Whitby highlights pandemic coping - globalnews.ca - county Hall - city Durham
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Robina Brah, helps illustrate how people and businesses coped during the past three years.Brah, who is an Ontario Tech University graduate, says her goal was to create something children could understand.“They had a bigger disconnect than we did. They were doing things they were told, but they didn’t understand why,” said Brah.The words might give you de-ja-vu or perhaps a bit of PTSD, as each page helps parents walk children through what they experienced.It stars a porcupine named peter, whose mom is a nurse.
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Transport Canada - Pickering, Ont., residents angry after community skating pond shut down by Transport Canada - globalnews.ca - Canada - city Kingston
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City of Kingston asks skaters to obey COVID-19 rules while on outdoor rinks The rink has reportedly become a staple to people in the area, with someone even building a change hut for kids to change into their skates. But residents say that was also taken away.“That was all dismantled and destroyed,” says Macaluso.
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Pickering, Ont., councillors under fire for travelling during coronavirus lockdown - globalnews.ca - Croatia - county Bay - Costa Rica - state Alaska - state Hawaii - Mexico - Bahamas - Dominican Republic - Jamaica - Bermuda - county Glacier
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UBC public health faculty members pen letter slamming director’s Hawaiian vacation In a Facebook post, Ashe said, “My wife and I returned to the Bahamas to visit Alex’s ashes.”The deputy mayor detailed that this has been a tradition since his son died by suicide in 2018.“Since his passing we (our family and his fiancé) have left a piece of Alex, who was an avid traveller, in numerous special places around the world including Glacier Bay Alaska, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Croatia, Mexico, Bermuda, and finally Hawaii,” said Ashe.The councillor is now isolating with his wife and has tested negative after three separate COVID tests.McLean says he is dealing with a property issue in Costa Rica, where he currently remains stuck
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‘Bulldog Fiesta Passport’ program hopes to keep Durham businesses alive during holidays - globalnews.ca - Durham
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‘Bulldog Fiesta Passport’ program hopes to keep Durham businesses alive during holidays
coronavirus pandemic, an Oshawa restaurant has brought forward an interactive initiative to help a number of owners make it through the holiday season.Julie Eves took over Bulldog Pub & Grill in February, just before the pandemic hit. She’s been fighting tooth and nail to stay afloat ever since, using any revenue she gets to barely cover the bills.“We didn’t pay ourselves for about four months,” she said.“We just had to pay the bills.
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A number of Durham businesses restricting entry to area residents only - globalnews.ca - county Durham
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COVID-19 cases, a number of businesses in the Durham region are limiting service to local customers only.It’s a move the owner of Shrimp Cocktail, Wanda Nippard felt she had to make.“I feel like if we allow them to come out into our region, we’re adding to the situation out there,” she says. Ontario puts Toronto, Peel into lockdown; curbside retail, restaurants move to takeout only Ever since the announcement that much of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area was to be put in lockdown, Nippard says she was fielding calls from all over the GTHA.
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Durham Region welcomes Movember as COVID-19 pandemic changes conversation on men’s health - globalnews.ca - Canada - county Durham
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Durham Region welcomes Movember as COVID-19 pandemic changes conversation on men’s health
Established GTA winery putting down roots near Port Perry, Ont. “All kinds of great mustache styles still look great under a mask,” said Shane Demerchant with Movember Canada.This Movember marks the campaign’s 14th year in Canada.Last year, around $20 million was raised for prostate and testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention.
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Coronavirus: Pickering, Ont., families teach their children with unique community school - globalnews.ca
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Coronavirus: Pickering, Ont., families teach their children with unique community school
coronavirus pandemic continues to challenge parents with sending their kids to class, a handful of families in Pickering have taken the matter into their own hands and started their own community school.“It’s a lot of work at both ends, but the payoff is priceless,” says Steve Mcgoey whose son and daughter both take part in the program.The group made up of four families who started their own school when they realized heading back wasn’t safe.
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Durham travel specialist offering virtual, interactive, live vacation experience - globalnews.ca - Durham
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Canadian tourism sector needs help through ‘very, very dire’ straits: industry heads Turberfield, who sells luxury travel experiences, knew she had to do something.“I realized that people were missing travel,” said Turberfield.“I wanted to keep people connected to travel, and thinking this is not the end of the world, we are going to travel again.”From that came the idea of virtual vacation experiences.Building partnerships with key characters on the ground in the Caribbean over the past 20 years in her career , she now offers an interactive vacation environment, now departing for Antigua.“They are arranging to go live from Nelson’s Dockyard and from one of the resorts,” she said.
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Durham College students return to class and face changes amid coronavirus pandemic - globalnews.ca
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Students are taking a gap year because of COVID-19: ‘It won’t be a normal first year’ “I think everyone is settled back in and they are enormously happy to be back on campus.”For Jones, who teaches a number of courses for the program, he says it’s important students are back in class, saying it can be difficult to teach someone how to care for plants over the internet.“It doesn’t work. We have to be hands-on; we have to have hands on soil,” he says.“It’s hard to adjust,” says Brouwer.
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Habitat for Humanity GTA looking for volunteers - globalnews.ca
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Durham Facebook group helping highlight struggling businesses “When it started there was no siding, there was nothing, just a shell of the house, and now it’s looking like a home. It really is, and I know they’re (volunteers) in there doing the final touches and getting it all ready for us,” said Church.Right now there are a handful of volunteers chipping away at the four 1,200-square-foot townhouses.“It’s been a long haul but it will all be worth it in the end,” said Wayne Dempsey, Habitat for Humanity GTA construction vice-president and Durham GM.Dempsey says the organization is in need of help after losing corporate groups.“We’ve never been in a situation where we’ve had to turn anyone away.
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Durham District School Board prepares for back to school Tuesday - globalnews.ca
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Ontario family offers at home learning tips for parents this school year There’s plenty of signage throughout the hallways, water fountains are restricted, the stairwells have been re-assigned for traffic flow and there’s no access to lockers.“We’re not able to keep our students one metre apart so we’ve (decided to) keep (lockers) shut with a bolt so that students will have to have their belongings with them personally in class, their jackets and backpacks on the back of their chairs,” said Bradley.There are just over 200 students returning for in-person learning, two-thirds of the school’s typical enrollment, but that hasn’t reduced class sizes.“We had to determine if that number of desks would actually physically fit in the classroom
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Ontario family offers at home learning tips for parents this school year - globalnews.ca
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Parents of DDSB students make tough decision over return to school “I typically try to make time for each person so I have one-on-one time so whether it’s their math or language they are struggling with, and others read alone.
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New look Oshawa backpack program helping to ease back-to-school stress - globalnews.ca
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Parents of DDSB students make tough decision over return to school Trudell says making the decision to send him back to class was a difficult one, but she says it was a move they made with his education in mind.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“We really don’t want to send him back because we know how he is and we know it’s him times 20 but at the same time we aren’t teachers,” said Trudell.Trudell isn’t alone. Other parents picking up backpacks Thursday say they’re also struggling with their decision.“I got advice from family, friends, what they were going to be doing and what their thoughts of it was,” said Kimberly Forbes, a local parent.“This year it’s hard.
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Durham Facebook group helping highlight struggling businesses - globalnews.ca - county Durham
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‘Support local’: Ajax, Ont., launches coronavirus business response plan Nana says they’ve racked up between $40,000 to $50,000 in debt, despite being able to offer limited dine-in.“Fifty per cent capacity doesn’t help us that much, because when we work out our labour costs and the cost of our materials to get the food going, there’s literally no profit,” said Nana.In April, Eric Novak created a Facebook group called Durham Region Eats to see which restaurants were still open and offering take-out services.“It just blew up, everybody sort of took to it, there’s this huge push to be supportive in a local community and I think this desire to support the people who are struggling was a real fuel to the fire,” said Novak.It started in Ajax
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Simcoe Street United Church in Oshawa needs restoration funding help - globalnews.ca
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restoration.Scaffolding has taken over the front of the 153-year-old structure and while the project is underway, it has been facing difficulties over the past few months, namely COVID-19 and funding-related ones.“This building is part of the bones of Oshawa,” said Rev. David Moore, Simcoe Street United Church.Reverend Moore has been delivering sermons at the church for the past 25 years.
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Whitby Abilities Centre requests $400K from town - globalnews.ca - city Sanctuary
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coronavirus shutdown. For the past couple of months, Ben White has been coming with his mom Allison to the Abilities Centre parking lot twice a week for its outdoor programming.“This is the best.
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Parents of DDSB students make tough decision over return to school - globalnews.ca
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coronavirus pandemic, others feel like they didn’t have a choice.Melike Ceylan-Leamen says she and her husband have made a comfortable workspace for their son Ayden. He has serve epilepsy, making him immune-compromised.The Grade 7 student will be one of about 13,500 DDSB students starting the school year at home.“It was a very quick and easy decision.
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Pegasus Animal Sanctuary struggles to stay afloat during coronavirus pandemic - globalnews.ca - city Sanctuary
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Pegasus Animal Sanctuary struggles to stay afloat during coronavirus pandemic
Durham animal sanctuary needs volunteers in order to expand operation To keep the operation going, Hurst says it costs between $50,000 and $75,000 a year — a figure he says he hasn’t been hitting since the pandemic started.Hurst says it’s a combination of donations being down and not being able to generate any revenue with tours and visits due to the pandemic.In addition to losing money, Hurst says he’s lost half of his volunteers.“We can’t really take a lot of animals now because we’re in that situation where we don’t have the volunteers to look after them. The last thing we want to do is overstretch, go beyond our ability to take care of the animals,” said Hurst.Ray Smith has been volunteering for the past year.
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Whitby arcade venue presses reset to open under Stage 3 - globalnews.ca
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New cafe in Whitby tapping into arcade culture Although it was a rough go, he says everyone stepped up to help, with people ordering coffee online and other one-ups from his landlord.“We’re lucky we had a great landlord, support of the community. No one wanted to see 8-Bit Beans close down.”Now they are serving customers once again, after more than four months — and it seems everyone is happy to be back.“I’m just glad everything is slowly starting to open, which is great,” says Michelle Duguay, who was there with her son.Reopening the retro arcade location was no easy feat either.
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Durham Region food banks struggle to keep up with increased demand during pandemic - globalnews.ca - county Durham
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COVID-19 pandemic started. While the need for donations has increased, supply has been dwindling.Twice a week, Gillian Daly travels from Port Perry to help feed some of the most vulnerable in Whitby.She started volunteering at the Kendalwood Church Food Bank in March.“It’s not just about coming to pack stuff into boxes.
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Durham municipalities not rushing Phase 3 reopening - globalnews.ca - Durham
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coronavirus pandemic reopening plan, which means several businesses that have been closed for months are now able to resume operations.When it comes to municipal services, however, each city or town is at their own discretion in terms of what will open and when.“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should,” said Shaun Collier, Ajax mayor.Collier said throughout the pandemic, Ajax has taken a more cautious approach than some of its neighbours and that’s not about to change.He said it takes time to get things back online and he’s concerned the province is moving too quickly.“The last thing I want to do is undo all the hard work that we’ve done and have to start over again at day one,” said Collier.
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New Ontario drivers told to ‘show up ready’ as driving schools given green light to reopen - globalnews.ca - county Durham
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COVID-19 pandemic hit.“All my friends have their licences, they’re all getting their cars and what not, I’m just still waiting to get my licence so, just missing out kind of feeling,” said MacDonald.
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Businesses implementing mask policies in Durham Region - globalnews.ca - county Durham
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Coronavirus — Face masks or coverings now mandatory in Toronto’s indoor public settings It’s the dilemma most Durham businesses face now. After being shut down for months, they say they need to comply.And for the most part, it seems customers are fine with it.“Do you wear a seatbelt when you drive? Well, why not wear a mask,” says customer Josh Kowalchuk.
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Bonnie Crombie - Masks, face coverings now mandatory indoors in Peel and Durham regions - globalnews.ca - county Durham
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COVID-19.The new bylaw on wearing masks officially came into effect on Friday, July 10.
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Coronavirus: Durham Region mandating masks in indoor spaces - globalnews.ca - city Ottawa - county Durham
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Ottawa, surrounding regions make indoor masks mandatory as of Tuesday “This is another source of protection and a cautionary measure that our numbers stay low, the outbreaks are minimized and it’s an additional measure.”Residents can use fabric masks or other types of face coverings. This will be mandated for all members of the community while they are in commercial establishments and other indoor spaces.“These are confined spaces,” says Dr.
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Durham Region driving schools await approval to reopen: ‘They’re going to be hurting’ - globalnews.ca - Usa - county Durham
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‘I feel like we were left out’: Some Durham businesses unable to join Stage 2 of reopening Boateng Akyeampong moved to Durham Region from the United States last month and says he waited in line for an hour to get his Ontario licence.“It didn’t seem like when I got here there was a lot of clear direction as to where to go, if this was the correct line or if there was a separate line for just exchanging your permit, so that was a little bit frustrating,” said Akyeampong.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Over 50 of the centres across the province are now operating on a limited basis.“We understand it’s going to be difficult in the Phase 2 while they get other things up and running.
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‘I feel like we were left out’: Some Durham businesses unable to join Stage 2 of reopening - globalnews.ca
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coronavirus pandemic say they’re concerned about how they’ll survive when they’re unable to compete.“I feel like we were left out,” said Diana Moore, the owner of Eggsmart Whitby Shores.On Friday, Durham moved into Stage 2 of Ontario’s reopening plan, which includes places such as hair salons and swimming pools.
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Coronavirus: Durham students pick up personal belongings - globalnews.ca
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[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“It’s been different not seeing my friends around, not doing group work,” said Daniels.
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‘It’s the right environment’: Durham vet expects more ticks as dog parks reopen - globalnews.ca - county Park
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‘It’s the right environment’: Durham vet expects more ticks as dog parks reopen
While dog parks throughout the province have reopened, veterinarians are warning owners about another bad tick season.
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Justin Trudeau - Oshawa, Ont., General Motors plant ready for mass production of surgical masks - globalnews.ca - Canada
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Oshawa, Ont., General Motors plant ready for mass production of surgical masks
Within just one month, General Motors is ready for mass production at its Oshawa plant.
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COVID-19 pandemic impacts Oshawa Fire Services’ recruit program - globalnews.ca
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Oshawa Fire Services’ newest batch of recruits are getting ready for graduation, however, physical distancing rules amid the coronavirus pandemic forced significant changes to the training they received.
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‘She’s a miracle’: Durham rallies to give 11-year-old unforgettable birthday amid COVID-19 pandemic - globalnews.ca
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‘She’s a miracle’: Durham rallies to give 11-year-old unforgettable birthday amid COVID-19 pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many facets of our life, including how we celebrate.
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New Durham Region business struggling to get through COVID-19 challenges - globalnews.ca - county Durham
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A hat store in Bowmanville, Ont., is one of many across Durham Region struggling to stay in business during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Durham emergency child care centres offer relief during coronavirus pandemic - globalnews.ca - county Centre
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Since the coronavirus pandemic started, those who work in health care or in essential services have had to juggle work and family.
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‘It’s a safety issue’: Pickering man says he was evicted during COVID-19 pandemic - globalnews.ca
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‘It’s a safety issue’: Pickering man says he was evicted during COVID-19 pandemic
A Pickering man says he was left scrambling to find a place to live after being evicted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Ajax, Ont. community gardeners call on premier to ease restrictions: ‘It’s totally closed’ - globalnews.ca
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Ajax, Ont. community gardeners call on premier to ease restrictions: ‘It’s totally closed’
As the temperature climbs, green thumbs are itching to get out into their gardens.
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‘He thrives on routine’: COVID-19 pandemic impacting Durham families affected by autism - globalnews.ca - state Virginia
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April is World Autism Month, typically an opportunity for raising awareness of autism spectrum disorder and starting and having a conversation as a community.
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Durham soccer programs staying connected from afar amid coronavirus - globalnews.ca - city Durham - county Durham
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Social distancing doesn’t appear to be going anywhere any time soon but some soccer programs in Durham Region have found ways for players to connect from a distance.
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