Society

Can we all agree to keep our cool, and not clean out the pasta aisle?

The global pandemic turned a 10,000-km adventure around North America into a surreal, isolating journey. With no option but to stay aboard their boats, these Canadians caught south of the border slowly made their way home.

Image of the Week: Aries Benuen and his grandfather Sebastian crushed their goal of raising $50,000 so the Innu boy can keep playing at the top of the game

Tim Sly: Any suspicion of a sore throat or a hint of wheeziness, and a parent is asked to peremptorily remove their hapless pupil who is then taken to a coronavirus testing centre. That’s where the tedium really begins.

The planet is burning, the pandemic runs rampant, millions of refugees are adrift from their homes and Black and Indigenous lives are under constant threat. Now is no time to throw in the towel.

Harvard professor Michael Sandel argues the Western world has ’outsourced our moral judgment to markets’ and wrongly assumed that ’the money people make is the measure of their contribution to the common good’

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.

Pam Palmater: A much larger and more powerful movement than the last, led by Black and Indigenous peoples and supported by millions of Canadians

Infectious disease specialist Dr. Ilan Schwartz on playing sports, the performative aspects of ’deep-cleaning’ and whether you should steer clear of exhaling smokers

Bidders at a sale of the velociraptors, pterosaurs and T. Rexes this August fell into two categories: grazers and carnivores