HealthPrivate Health Care Is HereA growing number of Canadians pay out of pocket for MRIs, hip replacements, even family doctor visits. How a two-tiered system crept into Canada.
HealthModerna’s Patricia Gauthier is preparing Canada for the next pandemicThe company’s first Canadian general manager is laying the groundwork for the country to become a leader in vaccine production
HealthCanadian paramedics are in crisisPTSD, burnout, and a pandemic. How COVID pushed the country’s overworked first responders into emergency territory
HealthChronic exhaustion, derailed lives and no way out. This is long COVID.Up to half a million Canadians are suffering from debilitating symptoms of long COVID—and falling through the cracks of a depleted health-care system
EnvironmentAn abandoned U.S. dam is blocking fish from B.C.’s Similkameen River—and key spawning groundAn abandoned dam in Washington state may be the only thing barring chinook and steelhead trout from the upper reaches of B.C.’s Similkameen River. If you tear it down, will they come?
CanadaTs’eketi, the 100-year-old B.C. sturgeon that’s here to save her speciesDeep in British Columbia’s Nechako River, the eggs of one ancient mama fish might be among the last hope for these endangered sturgeon
CanadaInside the global race against COVID-19 mutationsVariants of SARS-CoV-2 arise through errors in the virus’s replication process. But some mistakes give the virus a deadly advantage.
LifeAlone and afraid: Alberta’s third wave in photosA Calgary physician captures COVID-19 in the ICU: trauma, heartbreak and immense love and resilience
ScienceResearchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues. Luckily, that didn’t stop them.Sixty years ago, the scientists who were pioneering the technology that would make today’s COVID-19 vaccines possible were mocked and dismissed
HealthThe year of the pandemic has busted the myth that Canada values its seniorsDecades of promises to improve the quality of life of elderly Canadians have gone unfulfilled. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the ugly truth.