pandemic
A lot has changed at restaurants since the pandemic—starting with how much it costs to eat out
Chris Nuttall-Smith on the great Canadian dining frenzy
This Toronto social worker is seeing a surge of anxiety and depression in kids
“I see kids as young as eight in my practice who self-harm or are experiencing suicidal thoughts”
An impossible job: What it’s like to work in a pediatric ICU
“No child should be denied a ventilator or bed, yet these are the kinds of decisions we were having to make”
I run a food bank. We’ve seen a 60 per cent increase in demand.
“Clients are telling us they’re considering medically assisted death or suicide because they can’t live in grinding poverty anymore.”
I’ve only been a nurse for eight months. The chaos is killing me.
Jacelyn Wingerter is a Saskatchewan hospital nurse facing the impossible. “We have 35 beds in our department, and 100 patients needing treatment.”
Pandemic puppies have a major anxiety problem
All those dogs Canadians adopted during the pandemic? They’re a little undersocialized now.
Getting through the pandemic one Archie comic at a time
Jillian Horton: Every night at bedtime my son and I read Archie. Amid the brutal COVID disruptions, I feel viscerally what he is drawn to: the containment of it all.
The cruel, ridiculous reality of ‘virtual learning’
Shannon Proudfoot: What does online school actually look like? It’s an impossible balancing act that’s ruining kids and parents alike. And it’s not okay.
Omicron cases start to climb as WHO warns the variant poses a ‘high infection risk’
Politics Insider for Nov. 30, 2021: New cases in Canada; a military apology; and Steven Guilbeault’s bicycle
Omicron: Here’s what we know so far about the latest variant of concern
Vaxx Populi: From how vulnerable Canada is to what the vaccine makers are doing in response, here’s what we know about the newest variant of concern
The team of scientists guarding Canada against COVID variants—’the known unknown’
The Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network will serve as Canada’s early warning system for variants that could hurl us back into pandemic misery
The COVID-19 variant Omicron is in Ottawa; and WHO disputes travel restrictions
Politics Insider for Nov. 29, 2021: A worrying new COVID variant is here; an inflation fight; and some Ryan Reynolds