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'Only athletes pay the price': The COC president on the folly of boycotting the Beijing Olympics

People celebrate as the verdict is announced in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. - Sacked police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter on april 20 in the death of African-American George Floyd in a case that roiled the United States for almost a year, laying bare deep racial divisions. (Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images)

People celebrate as the verdict is announced in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. - Sacked police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter on april 20 in the death of African-American George Floyd in a case that roiled the United States for almost a year, laying bare deep racial divisions. (Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images)

World

Derek Chauvin's conviction, and the relief of seeing justice served

Image of the Week: The verdict unleashed an outpouring of emotion. Not happiness, exactly, but perhaps something more lasting.

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From his basement, Elia called each of his 172 patients who were eligible for the vaccine (Photograph by Brett Gundlock)

From his basement, Elia called each of his 172 patients who were eligible for the vaccine (Photograph by Brett Gundlock)

Health

This family doctor personally called every 80-plus patient to notify them of vaccine eligibility

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

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

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

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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

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

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Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland holds a copy of the budget at a news conference in Ottawa on Monday. (Adrian Wyld/CP)

Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland holds a copy of the budget at a news conference in Ottawa on Monday. (Adrian Wyld/CP)

Economy

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

Helaina Gaspard: A budget is more than spending, surpluses and deficits. It is a government’s vision of the role of the state.

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

The 11,000-sq.-foot house sits next to Hwy. 22 outside Calgary (Photograph by Sam Kazerooni)

The 11,000-sq.-foot house sits next to Hwy. 22 outside Calgary (Photograph by Sam Kazerooni)

Real Estate

The mystery mansion near Calgary that has everyone talking

(Bayne Stanley/CP)

(Bayne Stanley/CP)

News

Budget 2021: 20 ways it could affect your wallet

Among the odds and ends in the 2021 federal budget is more money to explore the wrecks of the Franklin Expedition ships, the HMS Erebus, above, and the HMS Terror (Parks Canada)

Among the odds and ends in the 2021 federal budget is more money to explore the wrecks of the Franklin Expedition ships, the HMS Erebus, above, and the HMS Terror (Parks Canada)

Canada

Shipwrecks and yacht taxes: 10 things you might have missed in the federal budget

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

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

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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.