Posts by Shannon Proudfoot

An empty schoolyard in Kingston, Ont., on Jan. 4, 2022 (Lars Hagberg/CP)

The cruel, ridiculous reality of ’virtual learning’

Shannon Proudfoot: What does online school actually look like? It’s an impossible balancing act that’s ruining kids and parents alike. And it’s not okay.

Lynch in his basement Blockbuster Video store in St. John's, Nfld.(Photograph by Alex Stead)

Culture

How one Newfoundlander revived Blockbuster in his basement

There’s a house in St. John’s where the video era lives on in all its grainy glory

Lemming in the leaves: the ‘little chicken nuggets’ are critical to the Arctic food chain (Gabriel Bergeron)

Environment

Lemmings’ mysterious population cycle may finally have an explanation

The ’Arctic chicken nuggets’ have strange boom-and-bust cycles, which led to the story that lemmings commit mass suicide when they become too numerous. That’s false. These scientists may have the real answer.

Opinion

The nightmare cruise before Christmas

A dramatic retelling of a Melnyk family vacation, in collaboration with U.S. federal court documents

A helicopter prepares to make a water drop as smoke billows along the Fraser River Valley near Lytton, B.C., on July 2, 2021 (James MacDonald/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Environment

Canadian politicians won’t be able to ignore climate change in 2022

In a year that will see more wildfires, deadly heat waves and drought, climate change policy will dominate the federal government’s agenda

Chrystia Freeland in Ottawa on Nov. 24, 2021. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

Canada

A new Chrystia Freeland biography signals possible Liberal leadership ambitions

Politics Insider for Nov. 25, 2021: Freeland has a new book; Erin O’Toole gives a ’fiery’ speech; and some inflation talk

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon delivers the Throne Speech in the Senate in Ottawa on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. (Sean Kilpatrick/CP)

News

The Throne Speech was a lot like a stereotypical Christmas letter

Shannon Proudfoot: All this symbolism and positive spin, only to find out that by next year the roof will be blown off your house

Erin O'Toole in Ottawa on September 21, 2021. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

Canada

’Do not underestimate Erin O’Toole’

Politics Insider for Nov. 17, 2021: The party begins to fray; a meet with Biden; and strong vaccination views

Ottawa

All together now: Childcare is not a boutique women’s issue

Shannon Proudfoot: Politicians have repeatedly referred to childcare as a mother’s problem, undercutting the essential fact that we all have skin in this game

Erin O’Toole in Ottawa on Nov. 9, 2021. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

Canada

Erin O’Toole reveals his shadow cabinet; and Marilyn Gladu does damage control

Politics Insider for Nov. 10, 2021: Some Conservatives get snubbed; Gladu apologizes; the Three Amigos may return

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