#Breaking : Cockroach-infested long-term care homes, soiled residents left to wallow #COVID19  patients allowed to wander around, forceful feeding of the elderly, and a “culture of fear to use supplies because those cost money.”

Is there any valid reason NOT to wear a mask? We spoke to experts to see what they had to say. “Even doctors who are asthmatic, including myself, are able to (mask up)," one says. "Just wear the damn mask."

More than 60 years ago a Black teen from Malvern C.I. was told to stop dancing with a white girl on a Buffalo TV show. Toronto exploded.

On Dec. 21, the date of the winter solstice, gas giants Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky and appear as a single ultra-bright light in a rare event known as the “Christmas Star.”

Markham teen Iman Vellani has reportedly landed the title role in a new TV series on Disney Plus, playing the first Muslim superhero in the Marvel universe. @breanna_xcarter 

THREAD: As bad as COVID-19 was in the spring, this winter is even worse: patients in the ICU are younger and sicker, the infection tearing through their bodies faster. It all takes a toll — on patients and health care workers caring for them:

@BTS_twt  will be playing Toronto’s Rogers Centre — the 55,000-seat capacity home of the Blue Jays — for not one but two shows on May 30 and 31. @garnetfraser :

Cancer surgeons in Ontario are reporting a sharp rise in the number of people coming to hospital with advanced cancers. It's an unintended consequence of the sudden shutdown of non-urgent health-care services during the spring wave of COVID-19.