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The superspreader events that governments let happen

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Vaccine passports could facilitate a return to normal, says new report

News

Doug Ford's April 16 Ontario COVID-19 update: Full replay

Ford holds up a COVID-19 caseload projection model graph during a press conference at Queen's Park on April 16, 2021 (CP/Frank Gunn)

Ford holds up a COVID-19 caseload projection model graph during a press conference at Queen's Park on April 16, 2021 (CP/Frank Gunn)

Opinion

How did it come to this?

Justin Ling: We are here because politicians have ignored the core facts of the COVID-19 virus and the main strategies that will clearly fight the pandemic

Latest on Coronavirus

A nurse administers a COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up clinic at the Masjid Darus Salaam in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood in Toronto on Sunday, April 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

A nurse administers a COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up clinic at the Masjid Darus Salaam in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood in Toronto on Sunday, April 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

News

Q&A with Vaccine Hunters Canada: 'We're just here to get things done'

Tess Jieun Ha (Photograph by Lucy Lu)

Tess Jieun Ha (Photograph by Lucy Lu)

Opinion

One young journalist's experience writing obituaries for COVID-19 victims

Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, photographed in front of the Aaniin Community Centre in Markham, Ont. (Photograph by Lucy Lu)

Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, photographed in front of the Aaniin Community Centre in Markham, Ont. (Photograph by Lucy Lu)

News

'Asian Canadians will not be able to fight this alone': Mary Ng on anti-Asian racism

Erica Lenti and her partner Arielle work from their Toronto home in April, 2021. (Photograph by Erica Lenti)

Erica Lenti and her partner Arielle work from their Toronto home in April, 2021. (Photograph by Erica Lenti)

Opinion

The lasting psychological toll of reporting the pandemic

News

Prince Philip leaves a ceremony at the National War Memorial in Confederation Square in Ottawa on Oct. 15, 1977 (CP)

Prince Philip leaves a ceremony at the National War Memorial in Confederation Square in Ottawa on Oct. 15, 1977 (CP)

Royalty

Prince Philip dead at 99: Reaction from Canada and around the world

COVID-19 in Canada: How our battle to stop the pandemic is going

COVID-19 in Canada: How our battle to stop the pandemic is going

Health

COVID-19 in Canada: How our battle to stop the pandemic is going

O'Toole holds a press conference on Parliament Hill on March 2, 2021 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick)

O'Toole holds a press conference on Parliament Hill on March 2, 2021 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick)

Opinion

The Conservative convention: Erin O’Toole pitches for right now

Customers wait to get into the Shoppers Drug Mart at Danforth and Coxwell as people in the age group of 60-64 line up on the other side of the store to await their Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccinations, in Toronto on March 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS IMAGES/Rachel Verbin

Customers wait to get into the Shoppers Drug Mart at Danforth and Coxwell as people in the age group of 60-64 line up on the other side of the store to await their Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccinations, in Toronto on March 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS IMAGES/Rachel Verbin

News

Everyone hates a queue jumper. But are Canada's current vaccine queues fair?

LATEST ON POLITICS

New Zealand legislator Waititi wearing a Māori pendant (Lynn Grieveson/Newsroom/Getty Images)

New Zealand legislator Waititi wearing a Māori pendant (Lynn Grieveson/Newsroom/Getty Images)

Politics

The pandemic puts Parliament’s stuffy men's dress code to the test

To be recognized in Canada’s national legislature, men must wear a jacket and tie. New Zealand’s legislature axed that rule and has not become a den of slobs. Is it time for our own traditions to come under scrutiny?

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Melissa Mahoney and her family stand in front of their home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Photograph by Carolina Andrade)

Melissa Mahoney and her family stand in front of their home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Photograph by Carolina Andrade)

Real Estate

Best communities in Canada: Why Atlantic Canada comes out on top

(Courtesy of the City of Moncton)

(Courtesy of the City of Moncton)

Canada

Canada’s top 25 communities to live and work remotely in 2021

Halifax, N.S. $460,000 (Courtesy of Geri Barrington/Royal LePage Atlantic)

Halifax, N.S. $460,000 (Courtesy of Geri Barrington/Royal LePage Atlantic)

Real Estate

What the typical house for sale looks like in Canada's best communities

Economy

Canada's best communities 2021: Full ranking of 415 cities

Education

St Francis Xavier biology lab. (Courtesy of St Francis Xavier University)

St Francis Xavier biology lab. (Courtesy of St Francis Xavier University)

Education

University Rankings 2021

Woman sitting on couch with computer with two kids playing on either side

Woman sitting on couch with computer with two kids playing on either side

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Debunked: four myths about online learning

At U of T, a young woman was handcuffed after asking for help with her mental health (Photograph by Christopher Katsarov)

At U of T, a young woman was handcuffed after asking for help with her mental health (Photograph by Christopher Katsarov)

Education

Inside the mental health crisis at Canadian universities

Carson (right) and her mother, Kirsten Korchinsky, outside their Calgary home(Photograph by Leah Hennel)

Carson (right) and her mother, Kirsten Korchinsky, outside their Calgary home(Photograph by Leah Hennel)

Education

University students remain closely tied to their parents—emotionally and otherwise

MUST READS

A message board over a highway in Halifax on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Darren Calabrese)

A message board over a highway in Halifax on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. (Darren Calabrese)

News

Year One: The untold story of the pandemic in Canada

Thomas Chan. (Photograph by Clay Stang)

Thomas Chan. (Photograph by Clay Stang)

Society

Does Thomas Chan belong in prison?

Crosses on the lawn of the Camilla Care Community nursing home in Mississauga, Ont., in May, representing the residents who died of COVID-19 (Richard Lautens/Toronto Star/Getty Images)

Crosses on the lawn of the Camilla Care Community nursing home in Mississauga, Ont., in May, representing the residents who died of COVID-19 (Richard Lautens/Toronto Star/Getty Images)

Society

2020 was the year that changed everything

Spalding in the hospital in June, his daughter’s reflection in the window as she takes a photo (Courtesy of Frances Spalding)

Spalding in the hospital in June, his daughter’s reflection in the window as she takes a photo (Courtesy of Frances Spalding)

Health

Strict COVID-19 protocols are leaving seniors lonely, depressed and wondering: Is it worth it?

Refugees and migrants make their way to the Greek island of Lesbos in March (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

Refugees and migrants make their way to the Greek island of Lesbos in March (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

Life

Don't give up on hope. The world needs it.