Listen here or subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts, including YouTube, where Closed Captioning is available. If you would like to support the journalism of the Toronto Star, you can subscribe at thestar.com/subscribingmatters. As a result, the Ontario government implemented a temporary three-day paid sick leave program that’s now being extended till the summer of 2022. Nurses, doctors and health care providers say it’s not enough. An emergency room physician from Peel region joins “This Matters” to make the case for paid sick days and talk about how doctors ended up fighting on two front lines — the virus and the system that exposes the most vulnerable to the worst of it.

Source: thestar December 23, 2021 11:01 UTC