Society

The Jason Kenney government planned for sagging oil prices, not a full market meltdown. Will the premier now go cap-in-hand to Ottawa?

Scott Gilmore: The markets are tanking, there is a global public health crisis. It’s not the end of the world, it just feels that way.

An Ottawa hospital has opened the country’s first drive-through test site, but the Prime Minister won’t get a test for COVID-19 until his doctors tell him to. The worldwide death toll has now surpassed 5,000.

Left in the hands of Mexico’s aging campesinos, ancestral corn is at risk of becoming extinct. And that leaves not only a culinary hole, but one in the planet’s biodiversity.

With Harry and Meghan and Prince Andrew out of the mix, there are already fewer royals on duty around the world. And Prince Charles has plans to further streamline ’the Firm.’

"She said she wanted to die... it seemed to me an irrational, impulsive wish"

The chance to contain COVID-19 has passed. What will Canada do when it hits our cities, schools and hospitals?

Shannon Gormley: Doesn’t the mail drive everyone, including its recipients, postal? If the mail stopped coming for just a little while, it wouldn’t be a tragedy. It would be a snow day.

The best hope for an antiviral drug may come from Michel Chrétien’s Montreal lab

Remember the record-breaking storm that left the city buried? Officials knew they’d run out of space to put the snow they were frantically clearing away. Here’s what they did with it.