Providence Healthcare will construct a new building at its Scarborough campus to add 180 new beds. Below right, an aerial view shows where the construction is soon to begin.

Expansion plans to Providence Healthcare include quality of life

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Adding 180 new long-term care beds and a whole new building to Unity Health’s Providence Healthcare site is just the beginning of the Catholic hospital’s plans for seniors in Toronto’s east end.

Come Lent, Catholics like to plan their own desert experience. But in this year of COVID, where we are already living in our own desert, it’s an option that has been taken out of our hands.

Into the Lenten desert

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Forty days in the desert — that’s our usual starting point for Lent. But we would prefer to choose our desert, and most years we do. We decide what we will give up for Lent. We choose spiritual reading, take on volunteering and charitable acts, memorize a new prayer, set aside time for meditation. Diligent Catholics like to plan our desert experience.

Cardinal Thomas Collins archbishop of Toronto.

A different look to Ash Wednesday

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COVID has not cancelled Lent, nor Ash Wednesday, though a few things will feel a little different.

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