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The lost year in education

Education disruption is the ‘shadow pandemic’ that could eclipse the health crisis in its impact. And with mounting learning gaps and lagging policy, Canadian students are falling behind their global peers.
Keddy checks a map at a spot south of Mount Terrible (Layton Keddy)

Into the bush

Layton Keddy got on his bicycle and disappeared into the Australian wilderness, assuming he wouldn’t be missed. He couldn’t have been more wrong.
(Photograph by Kathleen Fisher)

Nowhere to buy

Soaring home prices, insane bidding wars and cancelled dreams have spread from urban centres into towns across Canada. How did everywhere become Toronto and Vancouver?
Watt’s ‘before and after’ photos have drawn worldwide attention to old-growth logging in B.C. (TJ Watt)

Falling fast

Three decades after the so-called ‘War of the Woods,’ the logging of B.C.’s ancient forests goes on, prompting protest from a new generation of eco-activists
A pharmacy technician prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a University Hospital Network (UHN) vaccination clinic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. UHN is one of the two sites responsible for piloting the vaccination rollout across Ontario. (Cole Burston/Bloomberg /Getty Images)

A call to arms

Inside Canada’s impossibly high-stakes rush to lock down tens of millions of doses of the most sought-after product on Earth
Olympic bronze winning swimmer Emily Overholt tests out the pool at The Arc (Photo by Jimmy Jeong)

Skyfall

In Vancouver? Look way up. You might catch a glimpse of Canadian Olympian Emily Overholt, out for a swim in the sky.
Robson Bight, B.C. part of Stephen Wilkes' "Day to Night" series (Stephen Wilkes)

Aye, there’s the rub

Killer whales are drawn to a part of northeast Vancouver Island, where they engage in a strange activity—’beach rubbing’