Society

’I would ask myself: How successful am I in my classes? At helping my parents? At maintaining my appearance? At honing my hobbies? At being lonely?’

As the world’s population ages, a new generation will be facing Alzheimer’s. A new book delves into the disease’s toll and what’s needed to quell the effects of the coming wave.

’There are not nearly enough images that depict Black motherhood and joy,’ says photographer Solana Cain. Her new photo series captures uniquely intimate images of Black moms with their babies.

The guerrilla vaccination blitz—nicknamed ’Jabapalooza’—was physician Nili Kaplan-Myrth’s answer to the chaotic appointment process in Ontario and what she sees as the baffling underuse of family doctors

Vaxx Populi: NACI described mRNA vaccines as "preferred," but the protection all vaccines—including AstraZeneca—offer from COVID is ’immensely higher’ than the risk of blood clots

The province has the highest rate of active cases in Canada and could see as many as 4,000 new cases a day by May 22

Image of the Week: A sweaty, 3,000-strong crowd tries out maskless mass-gathering as inoculations wax and case counts wane in the United Kingdom

Before You Go: ’Thank you for being such a loving matriarch to our family,’ writes Ingrid Littmann-Tai in a letter to her mother-in-law with dementia, her children’s Nai Nai

Adopting a strategy of maximum infection suppression early in this epidemic—such as was seen in Australia, Taiwan and the Atlantic bubble—might have saved 21,000 Canadian lives

Where you can donate to provide PPE, food and oxygen in India as it faces a dangerous surge in cases