COVID
My Prediction: We’re due for another global health emergency
COVID wasn’t the last large-scale outbreak. The next one is right around the corner.
I’m a children’s hospital doctor. Thanks to RSV, we may be in for a “tripledemic” this winter.
“We are facing what regular hospitals experienced at the peak of COVID—if not worse”
A doctor in one of Canada’s long-COVID clinics on the real dangers of the diagnosis
“I’ve seen marathon runners who can’t walk a block without being short of breath”
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.”
COVID-19 vaccine mandates for travel to be lifted
Tracing app reportedly also coming to an end; Canada-Denmark border dispute settled ; Trudeau tests positive; Canadians are feeling the debt crunch
The Joël Lightbound crisis in the Liberal Party
Paul Wells: The MP’s astonishing criticism of Liberal policy on COVID restrictions is the most serious threat to Trudeau’s leadership since Jane Philpott quit the federal cabinet
Our current health-care disaster could have been averted
Justin Ling: All the promises we heard over two years about strengthening the health-care system turned to sand. Now health care workers and Canadians are paying the price.
338Canada: In a Quebec first, Legault takes a hit
Philippe J. Fournier: A new Mainstreet poll suggests the ‘pandemic honeymoon’ between the CAQ and Quebec voters may have finally reached a limit
I have questions about le unvax tax
Paul Wells: There’s at least a decent case to be made for François Legault’s plan to tax unvaccinated Quebecers. But don’t be surprised if he drops the idea.
Chronic exhaustion, derailed lives and no way out. This is long COVID.
Up to half a million Canadians are suffering from debilitating symptoms of long COVID—and falling through the cracks of a depleted health-care system
Experts are hopeful the Omicron wave will be short, but fear for health care capacity continues
Case counts are soaring and hospitalizations are rising. But things are very different now than they were in March 2020.
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.