
Joanna Frketich
Health Reporter at The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON)
Health Reporter at The Hamilton Spectator. Send story ideas to [email protected]
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5 days ago |
thespec.com | Joanna Frketich
Robert DeRosa feels forgotten as the world increasingly moves on from COVID-19. Life never went back to normal for the 42-year-old former teacher, who went from running marathons nearly five and half years ago to falling so ill from long COVID that he can’t work, lives with his dad and barely leaves his Hamilton Mountain home.
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5 days ago |
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Joanna Frketich
Robert DeRosa feels forgotten as the world increasingly moves on from COVID-19. Life never went back to normal for the 42-year-old former teacher, who went from running marathons nearly five and half years ago to falling so ill from long COVID that he can’t work, lives with his dad and barely leaves his Hamilton Mountain home.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Joanna Frketich
City council no longer unanimously supports changes to how public health is governed in Hamilton. Opposition has flared up again after a disagreement over how restrictive the city should be about drinking on municipal property revealed a divide between councillors and the subcommittee that will eventually oversee public health policy. Council ultimately approved the next steps of governance reform that puts community members at Hamilton’s public-health decision-making table.
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2 weeks ago |
wellandtribune.ca | Joanna Frketich
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2 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Joanna Frketich
When a policy update threatened to ban tailgate parties on city property, Coun. Matt Francis stood up in a Tiger-Cats jersey to speak out at city hall against the “fun police.”“I tailgate … and I’ll be damned if they try to take away tailgating,” Francis said at a May board of health meeting.
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Hamilton Health Sciences has been ordered by Ontario’s privacy commissioner to hand over records about two children dying after tonsil surgery. https://t.co/kwJYb5xZIu via @thespec

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