Nurses in Canada say they are burnt out and increased abuse of health-care workers has pushed them to a breaking point. This is the story of a typical 12-hour shift in Toronto.

How is the COVID-19 pandemic impacting the mental health of Canada's frontline health care workers and what can be done to support them? Here's what experts say.

Canada's first death from the novel coronavirus has highlighted the urgent and often ignored need for better staffing at long-term care facilities where elderly residents are especially vulnerable to the disease, says the head of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions.