Getting through the pandemic one Archie comic at a time
Jillian Horton: Every night at bedtime my son and I read Archie. Amid the brutal COVID disruptions, I feel viscerally what he is drawn to: the containment of it all.
Society
The cruel, ridiculous reality of ’virtual learning’
Shannon Proudfoot: What does online school actually look like? It’s an impossible balancing act that’s ruining kids and parents alike. And it’s not okay.
Prince Andrew’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start to 2022
First, more revelations from a civil lawsuit claiming the prince had sex with a minor. Next, the sentencing of Ghislaine Maxwell. Not a very happy new year.
Misinformation is an infection that politicians have left to fester
Editorial: The info wars are on, and our political leaders need to step up and fight back
Misinformation from the U.S. is the next virus—and it’s spreading fast
It’s deadly, malicious and there’s no vaccine. The infodemic is here. But it’s not unstoppable.
Luke Prokop on striving to reach hockey’s pinnacle—on his own terms
The 20-year-old defenceman from Edmonton hopes to play for the NHL in 2022, making him the first openly gay player to do so
Formula E—the all-electric circuit race—is back and quiet as ever
The first Vancouver E-Prix will take place in False Creek over Canada Day weekend 2022
Building Canada’s coolest hotel
Hôtel de Glace, a colourful, snowy fortress—made of 15,000 tonnes of artificial snow and 2,000 blocks of sculpted ice—will welcome visitors from Jan. 2, 2022 to March 20, 2022
Whitehorse’s historic Martha Black Mayday tree is dying—but its seedlings may help it live on
Hundreds of seedlings from one doomed tree will sprout this year around Whitehorse, keeping the iconic plant’s legacy alive
I embrace the term ’Black writer’ but racism is rarely at the heart of my work
’Most Black British novelists and poets are not writing directly about racism; they’re channelling their creativity into everything else that we people of the human race experience,’ writes Bernardine Evaristo in ’Manifesto’