Society

Michael Wallace: ’I didn’t win a car or a TV or even a $25 Tim Hortons gift card, but I didn’t expect to. I won 67 coffees and 27 doughnuts.’

The first-generation Nissan Leaf electric vehicle (EV) didn’t have one and people weren’t happy. The function of the grille is evolving in the EV era, from mostly operational to strictly ornamental.

Here’s a collection of what people are going through during the coronavirus lockdown

We want universities to be fair, to not treat anyone arbitrarily or differently from their peers. Accordingly, the conditions of student assessment should be universal.

Paul Wells: For decades, researchers and officials obsessed with planning to stop an outbreak. Then along came COVID-19 and we were sitting ducks. What went wrong?

Opinion: Countries that adopted universal masking saw their mortality rates go down within a couple of weeks. That should be all the proof we need.

Tabatha Southey: Marilyn Gladu seems to think this medicine could easily get the Canadian economy back on its feet again. How to get through to her? Through poetry, of course.

’I think the coronavirus is putting into sharp focus the vulnerabilities in the way that modern society is organized,’ says Tara Henley, author of ’Lean Out: A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Life’

Author Mark O’Connell, whose well-timed new book, ’Notes from an Apocalypse,’ is out this month, on the pandemic: ’Civilization is actually strengthened in a certain way in a situation like this.’

The wildfire spread of COVID-19 seen in places like nursing homes and cruise ships could similarly sweep the crowded homes in which nearly half of Nunavummiut live