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The Afghan women Canada failed

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How Ontario's health advisors handled the 'darkest day' of the pandemic

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

Economy

Budget 2021: Can the government convert all that shiny new spending into results?

Brown, co-chair of Ontario's COVID-19 science advisory table, attends a briefing at Queen’s Park in Toronto on April 1, 2021 (CP/Frank Gunn)

Brown, co-chair of Ontario's COVID-19 science advisory table, attends a briefing at Queen’s Park in Toronto on April 1, 2021 (CP/Frank Gunn)

Health

How Ontario's health advisors handled the 'darkest day' of the pandemic

Justin Ling: Doug Ford ignored the advice of the Ontario Science Table. Some considered resigning over the weekend. Now, will the premier listen to their plan?

Latest on Coronavirus

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?

Whistler was the site of a massive superspreader event the fuelled B.C.'s third wave (CP/Jonathan Hayward)

Whistler was the site of a massive superspreader event the fuelled B.C.'s third wave (CP/Jonathan Hayward)

Health

The superspreader events that governments let happen

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

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

Trudeau gives Freeland the thumbs up after she delivered the federal budget in the House of Commons on April 19, 2021 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick)

Trudeau gives Freeland the thumbs up after she delivered the federal budget in the House of Commons on April 19, 2021 (CP/Sean Kilpatrick)

Ottawa

Budget 2021: The Liberal path out of the pandemic and back to work

In the Liberals' optimistic budget, recovery is coming. It will take extensions of key pandemic programs, plus childcare, job training, student grants and business supports.

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

(Bayne Stanley/CP)

(Bayne Stanley/CP)

News

Budget 2021: 20 ways it could affect your wallet

An intensive care unit nurse takes a moment to write some notes during her shift at a Vancouver hospital on Dec. 4, 2020 (CP/Jonathan Hayward)

An intensive care unit nurse takes a moment to write some notes during her shift at a Vancouver hospital on Dec. 4, 2020 (CP/Jonathan Hayward)

Economy

The big issue in the next federal budget should be the Care 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

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

Sponsored

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.