Concerned Citizen
My dad was COVID collateral.
From Brooks, AB
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Amplifying the stories of the pandemic throughout Canada
Stories
Patient or Family Member
Had to sit by as she begged me not to call the ambulance
From Victoria, BC
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Healthcare Provider
The Punishment of Being a Nurse
From Cambridge, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Pregnant with no lunch ever
From Welland, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Stop abusing nurses!!
From North York, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Deaths
From North York, ON
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Healthcare Provider
No staff
From Oshawa, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Nurses Entered into Societal Slavery
From Hamilton, ON
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Healthcare Provider
ICU nurse reflection
Toronto ICU Nurse from Downtown Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Long-lasting effects
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Other
Then There is a Mountain
From East Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
ODSP and OW are not the same.
From Cambridge, ON
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Small Business Owner
Struggle of the small business owner during covid
From North York, ON
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Concerned Citizen
The trivializing of mental health
From Calgary, AB
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Warning: Sensitive Content
I fell so far so fast... 'In the end; your alone with it all...' - Tony Soprano
From Brampton, ON
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Patient or Family Member
death of wife
mike from Strathroy-Caradoc, ON
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Other
After 2020 Shock
Anna Myatt from Ottawa, ON
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Essential Worker
The Devaluing of Ontario's Essential Workers
From Milton, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Parent
From Mississauga, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Desperate to see my kids in school
From Barrie, ON
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Educator
So many learning issues, so few ways to help.
From Lindsay, ON
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Educator
A letter to my teachers
From Markham, ON
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Educator
Opening Schools in the GTA
From East York, ON
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Educator
Education workers with young children given zero support
From Ottawa, ON
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Concerned Citizen
No Access to Justice and Kids Can’t Wait
From London, ON
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Patient or Family Member
I never left my house
From North York, ON
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Healthcare Provider
We need an exit strategy NOW
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Educator
The laughter is gone.....
From South and Northeast Niagara Region, ON
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Educator
This virus is a villain
From Milton, ON
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Concerned Citizen
2nd Vaccine shots to protect people better
From Sault Ste. Marie, ON
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Other
Double Trouble
From Kings County, NS
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Small Business Owner
First Aid Failure
From Peterborough County and North Hastings County, ON
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Other
"Selfish" Young Adults
From London, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Haven't we lost enough?
From South and Northeast Niagara Region, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Throwing money at mental health won’t change what has happened to kids
From York, ON
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Other
Collateral Damage
Destiny from East Haldimand County / Northwest Niagara Region / Most of rural Hamilton, ON
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Other
Single parenting during Covid
From Vancouver, BC
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Essential Worker
Attention employers: We will not meditate our way out of this pandemic.
From London, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Mental Health Mahem
From Central Toronto, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Being one of the first infected in Canada
DJLOVESCATS from Edmonton, AB
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Healthcare Provider
I am a nurse, I am a statistic x two but I am alive
From Spruce Grove, AB
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Concerned Citizen
On Mother's Day: An Update.
From London, ON
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Essential Worker
There’s no place for pandemic caution in my company culture
From Kitchener, ON
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Essential Worker
Masks up in public, optional behind employee only doors.
Melanie from Cambridge, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Please explain how we're protecting essential workers
From Whitby, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Tired of being 'strong'
From Ottawa, ON
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Educator
My Heroes
From Bolton, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Everyone in my clinic can work except for me despite getting vaccinated
From Hamilton, ON
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Warning: Sensitive Content
With Covid Comes Grief
From Parry Sound North Shore, ON
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Essential Worker
Medical Laboratory Technologist MLT, Lab worker, & Educator, exhausted Training MLA Medical Lab Assistants
From Ottawa, ON
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Educator
L4N
From Barrie, ON
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Other
You are not going to decide what's best for me.
From Orillia, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Count us in too!
From Ottawa, ON
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Other
I lost a 20 year old family member
From Newmarket, ON
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Concerned Citizen
I’m in pain all day everyday
From London, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Twelve months lost – but it's a lot when you are 72.
Doug Jordan from Ottawa, ON
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Healthcare Provider
#SILENTNOMORE
Ontario Nurses For Change from Scarborough, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Just a Nurse
Jenn RN ICU from Oshawa, ON
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Educator
Do I need a doctor's note?...I am so scared.
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Sick and tired of being sick and tired
From London, ON
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Other
Separated from my partner for 9 months
From Ottawa, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Living Alone
Philip Lock from Barrie, ON
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Concerned Citizen
What is happening to kids is cruelty
From York, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Pandemic first time mom
From West Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Tragedy in the Time of Pandemic
From Perth, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Endless loop of depression and anger
From Newmarket, ON
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Concerned Citizen
NACI - is it a help of a hindrance.
Charlie from Etobicoke, ON
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Educator
School board employee
From Brampton, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Pregnant and Tured
From Whitby, ON
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Concerned Citizen
My poor kids.
From Peterborough, ON
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Concerned Citizen
The Mothers Load
From Elgin County, ON
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Educator
My Two Year Old had Covid
From Scarborough, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Working around the clock. Full time parent and full time employee.
From London, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Enough!
From Mississauga, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Hopeless RN
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Essential Worker
Watching a trainwreck from relative safety
From Kitchener, ON
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Essential Worker
My residence is in Ontario but my job is in Quebec.
From Centre-Sud, QC
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Concerned Citizen
I’m so tired
From Burlington, ON
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Concerned Citizen
I am part of the 1/7 Canadians that lives alone.
From Centre-Sud, QC
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Concerned Citizen
Apparently I’m not at risk
From Guelph, ON
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Concerned Citizen
My kids’ mental health has never been worse
From Vaughan, ON
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Warning: Sensitive Content
Helpless
From Kitchener, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Disgraceful. What a debacle.
From Burlington, ON
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Small Business Owner
Left Wondering Who Is Guiding our Political Leaders or Are They Listening to Themselves
From Cambridge, ON
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Small Business Owner
Frustrated
From Guelph, ON
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Essential Worker
Getting vaccine essential. Reforming Ontario welfare system into British Columbia model also essential.
David Boyd from Cambridge, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Separated and Pregnant
From Perth County, ON
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Other
I would swim across the Niagara River to see my granddaughter
From Fergus, ON
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Educator
The classroom that Ford never saw
From London, ON
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Healthcare Provider
I was fired from a COVID-19 Assessment Centre for speaking to the media about PPE shortages in March 2020
From London, ON
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Single parent and essential worker, when it is convenient to the provincial government
From London, ON
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Essential Worker
Disgruntled Ontario Worker
From London, ON
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Patient or Family Member
It's all not real, until it is
Mel from Cambridge, ON
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Other
Pandemic Pregnancy
From Waterloo, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Tracing Testing and Travel
From London, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Surgery cancelled.
From Wellington County & Rural Waterloo Region, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Kids suffering
From Kitchener, ON
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Concerned Citizen
I worry about the kids
From East York, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Disabled Ontarians and COVID-19
From London, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Covid is here and it is here to stay!
From Peel/Dufferin Boundary West, ON
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Patient or Family Member
The day they declared covid a pandemic was the day I found I was pregnant
From Mississauga, ON
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Healthcare Provider
This Is an Endemic
From Brampton, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Take control and protect yourselves!
Darlene from Pickering, ON
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Other
Not Working Since Pandemic started last March
From Mississauga, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Cancelled surgery because of government failures
From Mississauga, ON
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Essential Worker
General public
From Bowmanville, ON
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Concerned Citizen
No hope on ODSP
From Hamilton, ON
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Educator
Keep your mouth shut!
From Burlington, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Double vaccinated snowbirds returning are not being counted in the numbers that are vaccinated.
From Oakville, ON
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Warning: Sensitive Content
The hope that never came
From Newmarket, ON
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Warning: Sensitive Content
If only I had known. . .
From Newmarket, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Fired for protecting my health
Tyler Manary from Collingwood, ON
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Small Business Owner
Licensed and Trained
Debbie from Sault Ste. Marie, ON
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Patient or Family Member
I am so sorry Momma!
Debbie Dunseath from Sault Ste. Marie, ON
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Small Business Owner
I'm high risk, in a hotspot, and couldn't get a vaccine until I joined the Vaccine Hunters Discord.
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Stop telling me kids are resilient
From Woodbridge, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Government has failed our vulnerable seniors both in nursing homes and also in their homes under the Provincial care service called LHIN.
Stanb1 from North York, ON
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Patient or Family Member
When You Receive a Call From Your Son
From North York, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Frustrated Toddler Mom
From Central Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Afraid
From Scarborough, ON
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Other
COVID-19 From work
From Cambridge, ON
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Warning: Sensitive Content
The loss of my spouse
Sandra Carlton from Scarborough, ON
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Concerned Citizen
After nearly 50 years in Canada, seriously considering moving back to U.S.
From Windsor, ON
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Essential Worker
#thisisyourshot? If so, why can I not get it anywhere
From Brampton, ON
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Essential Worker
Essential business vs essential work
From Middlesex County, ON
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Other
Loneliness is killing me!
From London, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Child having daily panic attacks since online school started
From East Toronto, ON
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Patient or Family Member
It can happy so easily!
From Niagara Falls, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Work lies to get my son to work
From North York, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Alone and afraid
From Oshawa, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Check on your Stay at Home Parents .. we're not okay.
SAHM from Peterborough, ON
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Concerned Citizen
COVID-19 and the anguish of worsening my mental health & that of my kids; working from home and supporting my kids' remote learning.
From North York, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Made to feel as if I'm nothing but a burden by this government
From Cambridge, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Vaccines
Charlie from Etobicoke, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Terrified
From Hamilton, ON
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Essential Worker
We are NOT all in this together
From Brockville, ON
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Other
The flip side to COVID-19
From Mississauga, ON
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I’m now one of those numbers. Another data point. Another story. Faced with my own mortality that COVID will kill me.
Angelo from Mississauga, ON
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Warning: Sensitive Content
We lost our son, we will NEVER recover.
From Dugald, MB
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Warning: Sensitive Content
Losing my child was the worst thing to happen, during pandemic devastating
Ms. Chenier from Cornwall, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Parent of child w/ heart condition discriminated against & looses job at unsafe workplace
From East York, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Moving Nightmare
From Fredericton, NB
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Essential Worker
The Real Frontline.
From York, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Too tired to stand up most days...
From West Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Our Health Care System has failed my Mom
Elizabeth Browne from Kawartha Lakes and Haliburton County, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Smeyes: Smile with your Eyes
From Mississauga, ON
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Small Business Owner
Truth or fiction
From Mississauga, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Having a mental health breakdown
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Small Business Owner
I know something you don't
From Central Toronto, ON
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Other
Only parent & not an essential worker
From London, ON
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Concerned Citizen
My daughter mental health comes first
From Mississauga, ON
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Concerned Citizen
LOCK DOWN IN ONTARIO
From Central Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Lack of socializing is destroying my child
From Brampton, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Privileged. And burned out.
From Waterloo, ON
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Educator
The Frontline
From Ottawa, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Where are the mobile clinics and paid sick days ?
From Whitby, ON
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Essential Worker
Essential Worker with Baby
Daniel from West Toronto, ON
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Other
Jobs, funding
Lorna from Oshawa, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Other serious health issues not addressed
Sandy Bodnar, Terra Cotta from Caledon, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Tired Healthcare worker’s
From Sault Ste. Marie, ON
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Essential Worker
Co-worker got Covid, but I was told to come in the next day
From Central Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Every level of government is missing in action
From Hamilton, ON
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Essential Worker
First Shot
From Gatineau, QC
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Concerned Citizen
Second Vaccination
Ashley from Downtown Toronto, ON
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Healthcare Provider
ER Physician Simcoe/ Muskoka
From Orillia, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Pulled in so many directions
From Burlington, ON
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Concerned Citizen
I miss my mom and dad.
From Central Toronto, ON
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Essential Worker
Not In My Job Description
From Bridgewater, NS
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Small Business Owner
Moving Back to America
From Central Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Booking 2nd covid vaccine nightmare.
From North York, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Exhausted......
From N5M
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Concerned Citizen
Type One Diabetics Should Be Considered Highest or High Risk in the Vaccination Plan
From London, ON
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Essential Worker
Essentially Forgotten and Alone
From Scarborough, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Dad missing his daughter.
From Ottawa, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Don’t Call Me a “Hero”
From London, ON
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Small Business Owner
Broke
From Kitimat, BC
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Concerned Citizen
Anxiety Attacks - Panic Anxiety Disorder During the Pandemic
From Whitby, ON
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Concerned Citizen
When advocacy isn’t enough... why are type one diabetics not considered highest risk?
From Kingston Main, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Second Shot
John B from Woodstock, ON
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Healthcare Provider
PSW BURN OUT
Jocelyne from Hamilton, ON
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Other
Chaos
From Kingston Main, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Angry, sad and anxious
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
14 months alone while governments deem me disposable
Susan Kiddie from North York, ON
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Educator
Unsupported Educators = Underserviced Students
From Stratford, ON
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Healthcare Provider
being a 'hero' has it's price
From Hamilton, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Working Parents are Suffering...
From Etobicoke, ON
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Concerned Citizen
So much stress for so long
From Middlesex County, ON
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Concerned Citizen
I wake up filled with dread and anxiety
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Essential Worker
Living away from family, working in Toronto
From East Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Vaccination efficiency at pharmacies
From Barrie, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Rejected workforce
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Healthcare Provider
We are all tired
From Kingston Main, ON
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Educator
The toll on educators with young families
From Ottawa, ON
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Concerned Citizen
So embarrassed to live in Ontario
From East Toronto, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Children decompensating and no one cares
From East York, ON
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Patient or Family Member
The social determinants of health are stacked up against my family.
From London, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Unreasonable curriculum expectations during pandemic
From Mississauga, ON
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Other
Failed COVID-19 testing not once but twice!
From Central Toronto, ON
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Other
Finding out how little you actually matter.
From York, ON
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Concerned Citizen
The Right to an Education
From West Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Covid Anxiety
From Woodbridge, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Lost days work for doing the RIGHT THING!
Rachel from London, ON
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Essential Worker
Losing hope...questioning future?
From L9Y
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Concerned Citizen
Exhausted
From Woodbridge, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Unprotected “heros”
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Covid ➡️ Long Covid ➡️ Ongoing Chronic illness, is my new reality... :(
From Middlesex County, ON
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Concerned Citizen
13 months of isolation and anxiety.
From London, ON
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Concerned Citizen
vaccine denial
From Mississauga, ON
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Small Business Owner
I am in the future right now looking back on today. Lessons learned will be shelved by politics and risk management is still governed by $.
From London, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Just to breathe again...
From North York, ON
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Small Business Owner
Unmasked interview
From Mississauga, ON
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Educator
Don't the kids deserve the same standards (or better) than adults?
From London, ON
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Concerned Citizen
New pandemic mom
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Far reaching effects of COVID such as post-COVID syndrome and PTSD - healthcare/front line and residents of retirement homes and LTC
From Frontenac County, Lennox and Addington County, Southwest Leeds and Loyalist Shores, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Long term effects can still affect young people - even with a mild case
From Guelph, ON
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Essential Worker
Workplace will not allow the use of N95 or double masking. Company doctor denies airborne transmission is a concern.
From Oshawa, ON
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Essential Worker
Financial services officer worker
From Oakville, ON
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Other
Staff in the jail system.
From Markham, ON
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Concerned Citizen
I’m vulnerable too! Please help!
From L4h
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Concerned Citizen
We have been in lockdown since March 2020.
From L6M
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Healthcare Provider
Crying
From Hamilton, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Cancelling surgery
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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Educator
Exhausted Mom/Teacher
From London, ON
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Patient or Family Member
Caregiving during pandemic
From Ottawa, ON
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Healthcare Provider
This is bad
From Hamilton, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Adventures of an Accidental Vaccine Hunter
Rhea from Central Toronto, ON
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Small Business Owner
Ladies Room Hugs
Rayna from Cornwall, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Doug Ford doesn't care about mothers
From London, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Care triage is happening
From Mississauga, ON
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Healthcare Provider
the positive test is just the beginning
From Central Toronto, ON
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Small Business Owner
Family saved by sick leave pay
From West Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Hiding From The World During What Should Be The Prime of My Life
From Hamilton, ON
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Healthcare Provider
ICU Nurse
From Brampton, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Moral Distress in Community Nursing
From London, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Children ruined
From Central Toronto, ON
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Concerned Citizen
Working in non essential manufacturing
From Paris, ON
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Healthcare Provider
Are you coming to intubate me?
From Downtown Toronto, ON
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