Coronavirus
Omicron versus booster shots: The high-stakes race in Canada is on
Most provinces off to a painfully slow start giving third doses of the vaccine, and one expert warns that new variant will make things ‘pretty ugly’
With the Omicron variant on the rise, should you attend your work Christmas party?
Vaxx Populi: Even if you’re double-vaxxed and you take a rapid test before arriving, the odds may not be in your favour
Omicron variant will likely be worse than Delta, according to early research
Vaxx Populi: Omicron has a higher effective reproduction number than Delta, so can vaccines protect against more hospitalizations and deaths? Time will tell.
New COVID-19 travel measures cause confusion; and Freeland will give a budget update
Politics Insider for Dec 3, 2021: Omicron variant chaos; a financial reckoning coming; and an unpopular monarchy
Canada announces new travel restrictions as the world braces for Omicron
Politics Insider for Dec. 1, 2021: Omicron sparks new restrictions; new vaccine questions; and a political challenge
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
An ode to my work-from-home dining table
Pandemic life happened here: work calls by day, home-cooked meals by night, a baby’s first delightful laugh. And now it’s hard to imagine having to leave.
Four weird and wonderful inventions sparked by the pandemic
From wind instrument covers to germ-killing robots, necessity was the mother of invention for these pandemic creations
The pandemic is breaking parents
Shannon Proudfoot: We’ve done what we were asked to do, at great cost to our wellbeing and that of our young kids. And still, the pandemic cruelty continues.