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New Movement Called ‘Caremongering’ Spreading Across Canada

When Abbis Mahmoud put out a call on his social media for volunteers, people flooded in to help.
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New Movement Called ‘Caremongering’ Spreading Across Canada
Volunteers for Operation Ramzieh work on assembling food to distribute to seniors and others in need in Ottawa. Rajeev Nath
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A few weeks ago, Abbis Mahmoud’s restaurant empire was bustling, with stylish diners packing his collection of upscale cocktail bars and country saloons and upmarket gastro-pubs in Toronto and Ottawa, Canada’s capital.

But as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic started to permeate everyday life, he started having some sleepless nights.

Tim Johnson
Tim Johnson
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Toronto-based writer Tim Johnson is always traveling in search of the next great story. Having visited 140 countries across all seven continents, he’s tracked lions on foot in Botswana, dug for dinosaur bones in Mongolia, and walked among a half-million penguins on South Georgia Island. He contributes to some of North America’s largest publications, including CNN Travel, Bloomberg, and The Globe and Mail.
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