The gravity of Alberta’s COVID crisis, in one phone call
Image of the Week: A doctor’s call to tell a family their loved one had died captures the exhaustion, frustration and sorrow washing over the province
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Michael Fraiman
Michael Fraiman has lived in and reported from South Korea, Peru and across Canada. He often covers arts, travel and politics. Find him on Twitter at @mfraiman
Before 2020, we believed that in a crisis, leaders will lead. We were wrong.
The job description is right in their title, but too many simply failed to show up for work
Spitting-mad Trump supporters are not going away
Image of the Week: Laugh, cringe or succumb to outrage, there’s no avoiding the outgoing president’s COVID-denying true believers
A lonely day of remembrance in a time of COVID
Image of the Week: A symbolic reminder that it is now up to everyday Canadians to keep our veterans safe
The sum of U.S. election fears in one pile of ballot boxes
Image of the Week: What everyone thought would happen is happening. That’s concerning—but surely not cause for shock and panic.
Donald Trump’s other wall
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The powder keg that is Armenia versus Azerbaijan
Image of the Week: The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh was a bomb waiting to go off. It’s been that way for centuries.
Gretchen Whitmer, Donald Trump and fantasies of new a civil war
Image of the Week: A furious Michigan governor responds to an alleged kidnapping plot by two of the violent fringe groups the U.S. president indulges
Compassion versus Donald Trump
Image of the Week: A moment captured after the debate illustrates the one useful distinction that Tuesday’s fiasco revealed