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Good-quality face masks, like N95 and KN95 masks, can protect users from the health problems associated with wildfire smoke.

It may seem improbable - even impossible to some - but each day for the last three years, a 71-year-old Toronto woman has laced up her shoes, put one foot in front of the other, and headed out for a run

This is where the Omicron wave is starting to show its worst side: inside the ICU at Toronto General, which is filling up with critically ill COVID-19 patients, the majority of whom are unvaccinated.

As health-care professionals in Ontario call in sick by the hundreds due to the Omicron variant, staff shortages are expected to affect the entire health-care system, delaying thousands of procedures a week, including non-essential surgeries.

At least two Toronto hospitals have now implemented new provincial guidance allowing health-care workers who are close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases to stay on the job with regular testing in order to avoid staffing shortages.