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Vaxx Populi: With so many Canadians still unvaccinated, and a nastier version of COVID on the move, experts are more worried for children than last year

Election Image of the Day: After a flat first week, the Liberals depict their opponent as a menace to public medicine. No, this is not a rerun.

Common insects get the close-up treatment, revealing more depth than may be expected

We’re all pandemic zombies who have forgotten how to interact. Here are some handy survival tips.

The retired senator and Indigenous jurist talks with Marie-Danielle Smith about colonial systems, the legacy of Sir John A. Macdonald and the role of the new governor general

Monica Gattinger and Nik Nanos: New data shows Canadians want to be ambitious about climate change. But public confidence in the ability to take action is weak.

’My research into a deceitful serial dater led me to a realization: I kind of understood him,’ writes Kathleen Goldhar, host of the podcast ’Do You Know Mordechai?’

Something about the pandemic inspired people to make the grossest food ever

Bruce Anderson: Compared to the vaccinated, the vaccine hesitant don’t have a lot of trust in government. They also try to avoid prescriptions, dislike putting anything unnatural in their bodies and say they are reluctant to take any vaccines. Most worry that COVID-19 vaccines haven’t really been tested for a long time.

Canada’s wildfire lookouts live under constant threat that they will be replaced by technology. But they’ve never been more essential.