pandemic
Opposition slams Trudeau’s pandemic response as Canada marks one year of COVID-19
Opposition leaders were quick to criticize Justin Trudeau’s handling of the pandemic on Monday, the one-year anniversary of the first presumptive case of COVID-19 in Canada.
How B.C. restaurants are faring after COVID-19 cancelled NYE
Two restaurant groups in downtown Vancouver reportedly lost a quarter of a million dollars on New Year's Eve between them.
Vaccine myths running rampant online, Ontario docs say
Dr. Samantha Hill said if people fear the vaccines they won't get them, and whether vaccines are delayed by supply issues or patients hesitant to take them, the result will be tragic.
The ups and downs of one restaurant’s pandemic fortunes
The sudden halt to sales while bills kept mounting was frightening for chef Rick Matharu in the early days of the pandemic. But with help from an interest-free federal loan, the owner of Rick’s Good Eats fusion diner in Mississauga turned a challenge into a partial win.
From hesitancy to acceptance: The need for another kind of vaccine rollout
Despite the extremely low risks that approved COVID-19 vaccines pose to health compared to COVID-19 itself, these concerns need to be treated as valid by health experts and vaccine decision-makers because they are justified, writes PhD candidate Cathy Slavik.
Pope’s adviser says COVID-19 has highlighted ‘existential’ climate risk
The focus must be on justice for those fleeing the impact of extreme weather events, says a new scientific aide to the Vatican.
The pandemic isn’t really caused by a virus — it's caused by us
Human behaviour is finally on the table as a factor in epidemic coronavirus infection, writes family physician Warren Bell.
B.C. premier seeks legal advice on limiting travel to the province
The B.C. government is seeking legal advice on whether it can limit non-essential travel to the province during the pandemic, the premier says.
How one brewpub owner and his business are weathering COVID-19
The Avling Kitchen and Brewery Max Meighen opened in Toronto's Leslieville neighbourhood back in July 2019 has spent more of its young life in COVID-19 lockdown than out of it, but is still making a decent income.
Toronto's young entrepreneurs face pressure to adapt — or fold — as second stay-at-home order begins
From one end of Toronto’s usually bustling Queen Street to the other, the thousands of small businesses that populate local economic zones have, by and large, had a rough go of it throughout 2020 — but young entrepreneurs are adapting to the pandemic's changes more quickly, some business community leaders say.
Women's mental health faring worse than men's in pandemic, poll suggests
Aisha Addo was having a talk just the other day with a close friend about how they were faring as the pandemic stretched into 2021.
Rabbi shares recipe for repairing the world
The year 2020 witnessed the intersection of the global pandemic, anti-Black racism and the climate crisis. How do we overcome the crisis? The Jewish faith tradition has some hopeful teachings that can help with the answers.
Approved COVID-19 vaccines not enough to inoculate all Canadians by September, feds say
Canada has approved two vaccines and is currently scheduled to receive four million doses from Pfizer-BioNTech and another two million from Moderna before the end of March. That is the same delivery plan that has existed since November.
Conservatives are good at preaching about personal responsibility, bad at following it
When it comes to the Alberta government’s fondness for personal responsibility, one thing should be clear by now: They only think it applies to other people, not themselves, writes Max Fawcett.
