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ON THE COVER: Halfway there (May 2020)
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NEWS: Kensington Gardens loses eight (May 2020)
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NEWS: COVID-19 outbreaks at grocers (May 2020)
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Loblaws, Metro, Fiesta Farms all affected
By Nicole Stoffman
How is COVID-19 impacting the health and safety of grocery workers and their customers across the Annex? The Gleaner took a closer look.
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CHATTER: Green Beans no more (May 2020)
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The Annex café at the corner of Bathurst and Bloor has announced its closing after 12 years in business. The announcement came ahead of the pandemic crisis and reportedly as the building had been sold by the tenant’s parent company.
CHATTER: Annex hotel now home for frontline workers (May 2020)
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The twenty-four room Annex Hotel at 296 Brunswick Avenue has re-opened its doors to accommodate Toronto healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
CHATTER: Horn on the Cob and the Social Distance (May 2020)
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EDITORIAL: Ontario gets a failing grade (May 2020)
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Long-term care homes in the Annex, public, not-for-profit, and profit alike, have fared relatively well in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sadly, the same cannot be said for similar facilities across the province. Before government starts pointing fingers for the tragedy that has unfolded among our most vulnerable seniors, it would do well to acknowledge its own role in the problem.
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FORUM: We are here to support you (May 2020)
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On the road to recovery and a sustainable future
By Mike Layton
As we prepare for a summer like we have never seen in Toronto, I want to take a moment to look back on what our community has accomplished so far. Whether you are part of the frontline response, or are doing your part by practicing physical distancing, this has been a challenging time. However, the sacrifices we have all been making have worked and we have saved lives.
FORUM: COVID-19 has exposed issues in long-term care homes (May 2020)
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We need to summon the political will to make long-term change
By Jessica Bell
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only exposing how poorly our economy and society treat our most vulnerable, it’s making it worse.
FOCUS: Local resources for a global pandemic (May 2020)
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An updated guide of Annex resources
By Gleaner Staff
Staying home to help stop the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to be the new normal for the foreseeable future.
Read on for our updated guide to Annex resources during COVID-19, the third issue since we all started to hunker down and stay together apart.
FOCUS: Melodies are good medicine (May 2020)
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Ninety-four year-old entertains patients
By Khyrsten Mieras
GREENINGS: Capitalist truths exposed (May 2020)
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It’s time to focus on survival
By Terri Chu
India’s population of 1.3 billion people is in a state of “lockdown” until May 3. One of the initial impacts was a massive wave of migrants, suddenly jobless, walking hundreds of kilometres to their home-communities. In the country’s most populated state, Uttar Pradesh, state officials have instructed village councillors not to allow returning labourers in. In India and around the world, Coronavirus is laying bare a capitalistic hard-truth: the poor are expendable.
LIFE: “P” is for pruning procedures (May 2020)
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What to plant in your container garden
In May 2020, the Annex Gleaner celebrates 25 years of publishing. In acknowledgement of this history we are offering highlights of our past; this feature “P” is pruning procedures is from June 1998 by gardening columnist Bardi Vorster.
By Bardi Vorster