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May 2021
15m 11s

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TORONTO STAR
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Guest: Edward Keenan, The Star’s Washington Bureau Chief. New York, America’s biggest city, officially reopened this week after a year of devastation, grief and loss as one of the worst hit cities by the COVID pandemic. Edward Keenan, The Star’s Washington Bureau Chief, was in the Big Apple to capture all the post-lockdown joy and he joins “This Matters” to tell us about what their post-pandemic world is like and whether Canadians can hope to see the same happening in their near future.

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