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Final weekend of Ontario election campaign gets underway
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Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca is campaigning in Toronto this morning before heading to the Peterborough, Ont., area and later to Pickering, Ont.
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Front-line workers crushed by the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic continued to work through burnout in service of others. This week, a highlight of the efforts of paramedics specifically, as they battled not just COVID-19, but a local opioid crisis. Randy Mellow, Chief of Peterborough City and County Paramedics, checked in with Noor Ibrahim for Paramedic Services Week.
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