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    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

    International travelers at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, on Nov. 28, 2021 (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua via ZUMA Press)

    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

    Flight cancelations are seen on the information board at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 30, 2021. Japan confirmed on Tuesday its first case of the new Omicron coronavirus variant. (Shinji Kita/Kyodo News via AP)

    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

    Families watch planes on the tarmac at Johannesburg's OR Tambo's airport, Nov. 29, 2021. WHO urged countries around the world not to impose flight bans on southern African nations due to concern over the new Omicron variant. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

    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 CoVaRR-Net rapid response network was set up to analyze the variants quickly (Photograph by John Kealey)

    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

    Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and Chief Public Health Officer Theresa on November 26, 2021 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

    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

    (Photograph by Carmen Cheung)

    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.

    Sharma with his mother (Photograph by Brendan George Ko)

    A physician to his mom: ‘The stress of life under the virus fell disproportionately onto you’

    I used to take your hands for granted, Arjun V.K. Sharma writes, but they guided me through the pandemic

    (Zhang Wenzong/Xinhua via ZUMA Press)

    How Canada’s CanSino COVID-19 vaccine deal with China collapsed

    Politics Insider for Oct. 15, 2021: The made-in-Canada vaccine breakdown; cabinet talk; and a CPC suspension

    Headshot of president and CEO of University Health Network (UHN), Dr. Kevin Smith

    Q&A: Dr. Kevin Smith on the fight against COVID-19

    University Health Network CEO on their most promising research projects, protecting the physical and mental wellbeing of healthcare workers, and putting patients first

    Author Saleema Nawaz, cover of her book Songs for the End of the World

    A new Canadian pandemic novel is astonishingly prescient

    Saleema Nawaz’s much-researched book, ‘Songs for the End of the World’ is haunting, morally nuanced and oddly hopeful