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How prepared was Canada?
It’s a peculiarity of this crazy time that, during a contagious disease outbreak that has become the sole focus of nearly every Canadian journalist, the federal government’s chief public health...
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THE COLUMNISTS
How prepared was Canada?
It’s a peculiarity of this crazy time that, during a contagious disease outbreak that has become the sole focus of nearly every Canadian journalist, the federal government’s chief public health...
Laziness is a privilege
There’s a moment in the 1998 movie The Truman Show that I keep thinking about. It comes the morning after Truman, played by Jim Carrey, becomes aware that his entire life has been a simulation for...
NATIONAL
The exceptional province
B.C. weathered the early COVID-19 storm better than its counterparts. Here’s what it got right. The 271 beds with their clean white pillows, spaced metres apart in neat rows, are empty. The four...
A fragile confidence
Recovery from COVID-19 can be riddled with loneliness, grief—and confusion about immunity Angela Campeau has not hugged her three children in five weeks. She spends most of her days cross-stitching at...
Inside the ER
From fear to compassion to moments of humanity—what the coronavirus pandemic looks like through the lens of emergency room doctor Dawn Lim VULNERABILITY, COMPASSION AND gratitude—I think of these...
What happened in Portapique
New details about the April shooting are raising several troubling questions about the actions and response of the Mounties Previously unreported details about the Nova Scotia mass shooting last month...
The next steps are no easier
A new agreement for the Wet’suwet’en shifts focus from the gas pipeline to how the First Nation should be governed in the future It will probably happen in a private Zoom meeting, or something...
Quebec, where the kids must learn as they go
The province’s decision to resume elementary classes is an unintentional experiment in child psychology This week, across Quebec, school bus drivers draped plastic sheets around their seats as they...
INTERNATIONAL
Lessons from Kronavirus
Sweden’s anti-lockdown approach has been rightly criticized, but it’s too early to condemn an approach that’s focused on the long game and public trust OPINION Every afternoon, I look up from my home...
ECONOMY
Working out the kinks
How a B.C.-based hair care manufacturer refused to let the pandemic derail its plans for business expansion AG Hair could have waited out the pandemic but instead decided to lean into its...
SOCIETY
Falling out of fashion
Who cares about clothes at a time like this? In the world of so-called ‘influencers,’ it’s a hot topic. This time last year, fashion influencer Jill Lansky was on a first-class flight to South Korea....
The war against extroverts
If the decade-long campaign against extroverts didn’t get rid of us, this might just be the end Throughout my professional adult life, it’s never been good to be an extrovert. I’ve endured a shhhhhh...
Have some fries with that
Canada is sitting on a massive potato surplus. Why not load up our deep fryer-equipped trucks and start distributing the spuds? OPINION Would you even recognize the version of yourself from February...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Great feats, interrupted
In one of our favourite stories this week Jason Markusoff reports on the dilemma confronting would-be world record setters at a time when the Guinness adjudicators are at home social distancing A...
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