Posts by Shannon Proudfoot

2021 is the year piñata cakes bust out

You can smash them in with a hammer for your future marriage proposal and gender-reveal purposes

Freeland speaks about the fiscal update during a news conference in Ottawa on Nov. 30, 2020 (CP/Adrian Wyld)

The fiscal update: We are in for a hard winter

Shannon Proudfoot: Enormous quantities of money will be spilled to try and get Canada through the coming months and, maybe, into a shiny spring

Fighting in youth hockey is effectively banned in every league in Canada except for the QMJHL (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

Health

This Quebec politician dropped the gloves on the ice. Now he wants fighting banned.

Quebec’s National Assembly unanimously approved a bill to end hockey fights sponsored by Enrico Ciccone, a former NHL player who racked up 1,469 penalty minutes and 28 points. The next move is up to the government.

Crosses on the lawn of the Camilla Care Community nursing home in Mississauga, Ont., in May, representing the residents who died of COVID-19 (Richard Lautens/Toronto Star/Getty Images)

Health

2020 was the year that changed everything

The pandemic, political upheaval and an economic crisis have exploded truths and ideas that mere months ago seemed so fundamental they were beyond question

Washington

The psychological toll of the Trump era

Shannon Proudfoot: With his election loss, Trump’s rule by chaos is drawing to a close. And with it our role as unwilling audience members in his drama.

Trudeau votes in the House of Commons on Oct. 21, 2020 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick)

Ottawa

And so Canada escapes the obviously terrible idea of a pandemic election

Shannon Proudfoot: With all the pacing of a Facetime call with your grandparents, the Liberals survived a puzzling confidence vote of their own making

People go trick or treating on Halloween in the rain in Ottawa, on Oct. 31, 2019 (CP/Justin Tang)

Opinion

Kids have lost so much. Don’t take Halloween too.

Shannon Proudfoot: With a modicum of creativity, trick-or-treating would be as low-risk as adults grabbing takeout. Why the lack of effort to make it happen for kids?

Getting tested at a COVID care centre in Kanata, Ont., on Sept. 16 involved a six-hour wait (Shannon Proudfoot)

Health

My day-long disastrous ordeal of trying to get a COVID test in Ontario

Shannon Proudfoot: Line-ups start at the crack of dawn. Wait times stretch for days. As schools reopen and demand soars, prepare for a new kind of lockdown purgatory.

Life

Flight 752: A family torn apart

Abbas Saadat said goodbye to his family as they headed home to their lives in Edmonton. Don’t worry, they told each other. Life was good.

Ottawa

Don’t fear the social conservatives

The organized SoCon wing looms large over the Tory leadership race. A new report suggests it would tolerate a moderate leader.

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