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This is not sponcon. I just feel immensely proud of a paper where some of the best reporters are young women juggling massive scoops and raising amazing little humans/cats /1
Because of them, today we know:
Provincial officials ignored public health advice in designing a re-opening plan with thresholds 4x that of what was advised by experts to keep residents healthy and safe https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/11/11/ontario-rejected-its-own-public-health-agencys-advice-when-it-launched-its-colour-coded-plan-for-covid-19-restrictions.html /2
Provincial officials ignored public health advice in designing a re-opening plan with thresholds 4x that of what was advised by experts to keep residents healthy and safe https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/11/11/ontario-rejected-its-own-public-health-agencys-advice-when-it-launched-its-colour-coded-plan-for-covid-19-restrictions.html /2
Because of them, today we know:
That migrant workers who grow our food are being mistreated during the pandemic and wrongly targeted for speaking out. @SaraMojtehedz listened carefully and then got to work exposing those injustices https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/11/12/migrant-worker-fired-for-speaking-out-about-covid-19-wins-a-rare-reprisal-case-against-an-ontario-farm.html /3
That migrant workers who grow our food are being mistreated during the pandemic and wrongly targeted for speaking out. @SaraMojtehedz listened carefully and then got to work exposing those injustices https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/11/12/migrant-worker-fired-for-speaking-out-about-covid-19-wins-a-rare-reprisal-case-against-an-ontario-farm.html /3
Because of them, today we know:
Police appear to never have interviewed a killer despite knowing he was allowed to be alone at home with Christine Jessop. @wendygillis went to court to get police info and worked through the night pouring over them https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/11/11/police-were-told-calvin-hoover-had-access-to-christine-jessops-home-but-her-likely-killer-was-never-interviewed-documents-reveal.html /4
Police appear to never have interviewed a killer despite knowing he was allowed to be alone at home with Christine Jessop. @wendygillis went to court to get police info and worked through the night pouring over them https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/11/11/police-were-told-calvin-hoover-had-access-to-christine-jessops-home-but-her-likely-killer-was-never-interviewed-documents-reveal.html /4
Where am I going with this? I can tell you unequivocally these women worked incredibly hard to bring you these stories. They've sacrificed family time, personal well-being & more to ensure you have this info when you vote, when you go to the store and when you question police /5
We do this work because it's important to us. And we hope you find it worthwhile. But it isn't free labour. It hurts me to see people in my timeline ignorantly raving about paywalls when I see that work behind-the-scenes. So I wanted to tell you about it /6
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