COVID-19

Amir Attaran: The excuses against mandatory masking are so bad they qualify as comedy. It’s not too late for a national mask plan to prevent a second wave.

Our editorial: Most thought that there would be a baby boom as well as a spike in divorces after the Great Lockdown of 2020. Neither of those predictions seem to be coming true.

Kids on fighting boredom, too much screen time, and what’s actually better about life in these times

Half-capacity classrooms, hand-washing stations, sparse playgrounds. B.C’s resumption of classes has given the rest of the country a chance to see how schools may function in the age of COVID-19.

Shawn Rozen: The pandemic is almost like a perpetual third wheel, hindering dates in moving from platonic to romantic

The magnitude of COVID-19’s impact on Canadians’ lives is difficult to fathom. Canada has already lost nearly 9,000 people to...

The economic salve of the CERB has changed attitudes about income assistance as COVID-19 has exposed fragility in many facets of the Canadian economy—but UBI is not without its critics

Marie-Danielle Smith: Though much of Canadian society has struggled financially during COVID-19, we have assurances that more money is ’in the pockets’ of Canadians because of Liberal policies

Sadiya Ansari: Canada’s immigration system doesn’t provide citizenship paths to so-called ’unskilled’ labour, fails to recognize their worth and, as a result, fails to protect them

Image of the Week: This haunting photograph was taken in a Texas hospital just as COVID-19 cases in the state surged after an aggressive reopening plan