Canada

As the world’s population ages, a new generation will be facing Alzheimer’s. A new book delves into the disease’s toll and what’s needed to quell the effects of the coming wave.

Jen Gerson: We can’t wish away the Constitution. But we can stop filling our provincial legislatures with over-ambitious dimwits.

After a tragic year and persistent questions about the iconic aerial acrobats’ uncertain future, the Snowbirds fly back to their spring training ground

The guerrilla vaccination blitz—nicknamed ’Jabapalooza’—was physician Nili Kaplan-Myrth’s answer to the chaotic appointment process in Ontario and what she sees as the baffling underuse of family doctors

Vaxx Populi: NACI described mRNA vaccines as "preferred," but the protection all vaccines—including AstraZeneca—offer from COVID is ’immensely higher’ than the risk of blood clots

The province has the highest rate of active cases in Canada and could see as many as 4,000 new cases a day by May 22

Adopting a strategy of maximum infection suppression early in this epidemic—such as was seen in Australia, Taiwan and the Atlantic bubble—might have saved 21,000 Canadian lives

Vaxx Populi: Some research has found more side effects after one dose of AstraZeneca than of Pfizer. But there’s no evidence that a stronger reaction means stronger immunity.

Vaxx Populi: We need 75 per cent of adults to have a first dose and 20 to have a second. How soon might we get there?

The medical officer of health for Ontario’s hardest-hit region talks about his willingness to step ahead of provincial requirements in the fight against COVID-19