Today's Star Headlines

Including: Class sizes vital to curbing spread of COVID-19 in schools, Sick Kids experts say [Star Logo] Headlines [Class sizes vital to curbing spread of COVID-19 in schools, Sick Kids experts say]( [Sick Kids president and CEO says he will not back a plan to reopen schools that does not ensure proper physical distancing between students.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Canada fires back with $3.6 billion in tariffs after Donald Trump revives trade spat]( [Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland called the U.S. move to slap tariffs on Canadian aluminum “unnecessary, unwarranted and entirely unacceptable.”]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Saunders wasn’t told of Dafonte Miller beating for months, was wrong to defend decision not to call SIU, investigation finds]( [Miller lost an eye in an assault by an off-duty Toronto police officer in 2016. Mark Saunders, who retired as police chied last week, will not face professional misconduct charges in part because he was not informed about the high-profile assault until months later, according to a new report by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director.]( [Read More [arrow]]( ANALYSIS [Virtual Drake? Selected fans will be part of the Raptors playoff experience in Florida, where the games are starting to feel more real]( [There are about 320 “seats” occupied by the visages of fans that, in the case of the Raptors, will be chosen from the team’s season-ticket base of about 15,000 when the playoffs begin later this month. They expect to see regular “fans” at post-season games, meaning the likes of Superfan Nav Bhatia and global ambassador Drake might be there — so to speak.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [‘It’s the lowest we’ve ever been’ — mortgage rates drop through the floor with some as low as 1.65%]( [Rates are now so low, brokers say traditionally higher fixed-rate loans are competitive with riskier variable mortgages.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Two more Canadians were sentenced to death in China. What happens next?]( [Canada’s deputy prime minister condemns use of death penalty, says Ottawa has made clear their opposition in conversations with China.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [NDP leader Andrea Horwath accuses Tory government of ‘making up’ numbers to justify killing Hamilton LRT]( [Premier Doug Ford maintains the light rail line would have cost $5.5 billion and spurred a “massive” tax increase.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [Court documents detail repeated no-contact arrests leading up to 25-year-old woman’s Brampton killing]( [Darnell Reid was accused three times of violating court orders not to be in contact with Darian Hailey Henderson-Bellman in the year before her death, including once coinciding with his most recent arrest for possession of a loaded firearm in May 2020.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [She boasted about drunk driving. Then she killed a cyclist. Then she got parole. She was just sentenced to 18 months for driving drunk again]( [Darya Selinevich was found guilty Thursday of her third impaired driving offence in five years.]( [Read More [arrow]]( OPINION [Bruce Arthur: The Leafs have the talent, and a system that makes sense. But old habits are hard to break]( [The issues aren’t all the same, but there are themes. Every loss is scar tissue, but not all scar tissue helps, Bruce Arthur writes.]( [Read More [arrow]]( OPINION [Heather Mallick: Here’s one thing the pandemic might change forever: officewear]( [Post-pandemic, work clothes will need to say, “I am competent. I can move nimbly from place to place, absorbing new information and acting on it,” Heather Mallick writes.]( [Read More [arrow]]( [The Star]( If you’re not enjoying these emails, please tell us how we can make them better by emailing newsletterfeedback@thestar.ca. Or, if you’d prefer, you can unsubscribe from this newsletter by clicking the first link below. [Unsubscribe From This Newsletter]( [Manage Your Email Preferences]( [Become a Star Subscriber]( [View in Browser]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. One Yonge Street, 4th Floor, Toronto, ON M5E 1E6. 416-367-2000 [PRIVACY POLICY](