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Some essential workers fear the latest 8220 hutdown Premier Doug Ford is imposing on Ontario will do little to protect them from COVID-19.The measures announced Thursday shutter personal care services and restaurant dining rooms across the province, but allow other essential and non-essential businesses to operate with tighter capacity limits and requires schools to stay open.Some retail workers worry the latest round of public health rules don ;t go far enough to discourage customers from shopping en masse. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Essential retail stores are capped at 50 per cent of their maximum capacity and non-essential stores are limited to 25 per cent.But 25-year-old Meghan Ghent, who works at a high-end de
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SASKATOON 鈥?Saskatchewan NDP Leader Ryan Meili says the provincial government isn ;t doing enough to combat child hunger and child poverty.A Food Banks Canada report for 2018 shows that Saskatchewan had the highest rat
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stanley cup d costs our provincial economy billions each year in increased health, social services and justice costs. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Meili said the best way the provincial government could mark the Family Day holiday on Monday would be to announce a plan to reduce child poverty. CJWW, The C
