LISTEN: How do school closures really impact children and parents?
Parents, health professionals and teachers discuss the impact of virtual school on children, the real risk of the virus for kids and how to weigh all considerations
Society
Our current health-care disaster could have been averted
Justin Ling: All the promises we heard over two years about strengthening the health-care system turned to sand. Now health care workers and Canadians are paying the price.
Is the boys-club era of NHL management finally ending?
The Canadiens, Leafs and other teams are welcoming women to their executive ranks, but the key job of general manager remains a glass ceiling
Quebec isn’t the only one targeting the unvaxxed. But is it moral?
Taxes and fines cross a red line, taking us down a road that one ethicist warns ’will do tremendous damage to our society’
The Indigenous grandmothers who stopped a pipeline
Plans to flush out salt caverns for gas storage hit a wall of Mi’kmaq grandmothers
It’s time to switch to an N95 mask in the battle against Omicron
It’s easier for the virus to move through surgical or cloth masks, experts say, while respirators filter tiny aerosols
A meteorite nearly killed this B.C. woman in her sleep. Scientists say it could be 470 million years old.
The cosmic rock hurtled through space and time and landed in Ruth Hamilton’s bed, just beside her head. It could be worth thousands.
Quebec’s public health director resigns
Politics Insider for Jan. 11: COVID cases continue to peak in Canada; the realities of long COVID; and Ontario will re-open schools
Chronic exhaustion, derailed lives and no way out. This is long COVID.
Up to half a million Canadians are suffering from debilitating symptoms of long COVID—and falling through the cracks of a depleted health-care system
Experts are hopeful the Omicron wave will be short, but fear for health care capacity continues
Case counts are soaring and hospitalizations are rising. But things are very different now than they were in March 2020.