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YEAR ONE
THE EDITORIAL
This deeply reported piece, written by Stephen Maher and edited by Sarmishta Subramanian, is the most comprehensive accounting yet of what went wrong, and right, in our nation’s handling of the...
YEAR ONE / CHAPTER ONE
A danger dawns
‘Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as...
The great grocer
Kallisha Hoyes found her job transformed into a suddenly essential, risky role. ‘Without us, no one’s eating.’ KALLISHA HOYES GETS up early. Really early. On a good day, the drive from her home in...
Operation repatriation
When civilian travel ground to a halt, Brent Robson led efforts to bring Canadians home from the far reaches of the planet BRENT ROBSON’S COMPUTER screen last spring was a constantly messy patchwork...
You may feel a slight tickle
Madeleine Peet has swabbed a whole lot of schnozzes MADELEINE PEET DID not set out to become a COVID tester. She’s neither a doctor nor a nurse, or even studying for a career in health care. Before...
Seventy-seven’s a crowd
A Vancouver man is accused of hosting parties and running a makeshift nightclub in his penthouse condominium suite To police who suspected Mohammad Movassaghi might be hosting parties at his three-...
A song in our hearts
Suresh Singaratnam saw a nation of people desperate for a bit of spiritual uplift and brought his musical vision to life THE SONG FEELS like the musical embodiment of a lacy frost embroidering itself...
Calling for back-up
Yashoda Valliere and her fellow medical students turned helping health-care professionals into its own essential service YASHODA VALLIERE, a fourth-year medical student at Western University, attended...
Answering the call
When the need for PPE soared, Kacee Vasudeva retooled his company’s production lines and got to work FLAVIO VOLPE FIRST met Kacee Vasudeva in the midst of a global financial crisis that threatened to...
Standing on guard
When the virus arrived, Chief David Monias and his northern community faced an unprecedented challenge EVERY TIME A chartered plane takes off from Cross Lake Airport and passes over Pimicikamak Cree...
Prairie star
A fortunate Saskatchewan has rallied around its top doctor, Saqib Shahab WHEN STAFF AT a Tim Hortons in Regina wanted to pay confectionary tribute to Saskatchewan’s top public health doctor, the...
YEAR ONE / CHAPTER TWO
The strongest bubble of all
‘What experience and history teach is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history’ —Hegel, Philosophy of History ON MARCH 29, 1919, in the middle of a pandemic that had...
Grief in plain sight
One candid photo of Dr. Simon Demers-Marcil conveyed the full weight of human suffering the pandemic has inflicted HE’S WEARING A mask, of course. His raised left arm obscures the rest of his face,...
Tracing fear—and hope
Sheila Montague learned on the fly how to track the virus THE FIRST CALL was scary—“like entering the unknown,” says Sheila Montague. It was January 2020, and she was assigned to case management and...
Protecting Black lives
The pandemic has hurt some far more than others. LIKE MANY PEOPLE, Sané Dube really started to pay attention to the spread of a new virus in late February 2020, when the wave of infections hit Europe....
Pulling off the impossible
Natalie Donaldson was torn between two essential roles: parent and sole family breadwinner AS CONCERN OVER the coronavirus ratcheted up last spring, so did Natalie Donaldson’s anxiety. “I quickly...
YEAR ONE / CHAPTER THREE
Canada’s shame
‘All I can say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims—and as far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the pestilence’ —Albert Camus, The Plague THE WORST THINGS...
On the frontline
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif decided his community needed his services a lot more than the Kansas City Chiefs did LAURENT DUVERNAY-TARDIF WAS on the field for the final play of Super Bowl LIV, in February...
A shot in the arm
For Derrick Rossi, one of the founders of Moderna, the pandemic presented a chance to change the lives of billions AS DERRICK ROSSI waited in line for his COVID-19 vaccine, everyone standing six feet...
Beyond belief
The reeve of a formerly obscure Manitoba county took centre stage among COVID deniers, splitting his community A retired chiropractor, presented as a doctor to the crowd of coronavirus doubters,...
Going full circle
James Jones recharged his career by introducing TikTok audiences to a cherished part of his Cree heritage PANDEMIC BOREDOM AND underemployment led Canadians to bake sourdough, learn cross-stitch or...
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YEAR ONE / CHAPTER FOUR
Brace for landing
Snowbirds who flew south for the winter became targets of a social media backlash LEO IS OUT playing softball on a warm February afternoon near Phoenix. Infielders are required to wear masks, while...
Cry until you laugh
YouTube star Julie Nolke used comedy as pandemic therapy—and found millions of followers along the way JULIE NOLKE HAS been experiencing the pandemic in two very different ways. Like the rest of us,...
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