NewsIt’s time to switch to an N95 mask in the battle against OmicronIt’s easier for the virus to move through surgical or cloth masks, experts say, while respirators filter tiny aerosols
PoliticsQuebec’s public health director resignsPolitics Insider for Jan. 11: COVID cases continue to peak in Canada; the realities of long COVID; and Ontario will re-open schools
HealthChronic 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
PoliticsCanada doesn’t have the hospital capacity it needsPolitics Insider for Jan. 10: How the U.S. health care system stacks up to Canada’s; Canada is updating its approaches to China and Russia; and Quebec’s liquor store vaccination policy seems to be working
CanadaA Ski-Doo train packed with courage, care and badly needed suppliesImage of the Week: First Nations in northwestern Ontario are rushing to help COVID-stricken Bearskin Lake. By snowmobile, if necessary.
PoliticsOmicron is wreaking havoc in Canadian hospitalsPolitics Insider for Jan. 7: Canada is in for a COVID slog; Erin O’Toole speaks up for the unvaccinated; and Jagmeet Singh’s new baby
PoliticsOttawa reaches $40 billion agreement to reform Indigenous child welfarePolitics Insider for Jan. 5: A landmark commitment to Indigenous child welfare; NORAD needs fixing; and a Canada-U.S. trade dispute settles
OttawaOntario locks down, againPolitics Insider for Jan. 4: Ontario’s new restrictions; Newfoundland’s COVID count; and Prince Andrew’s fate
HealthMisinformation is an infection that politicians have left to festerEditorial: The info wars are on, and our political leaders need to step up and fight back
HealthMisinformation from the U.S. is the next virus—and it’s spreading fastIt’s deadly, malicious and there’s no vaccine. The infodemic is here. But it’s not unstoppable.