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With summer vacation looming, educators worry about lasting ‘fallout’ of pandemic schooling
Schooling Under Stress: CBC News sent a questionnaire to thousands of education professionals to find out how they and their students are doing...
What Canada can learn from U.S., U.K. about COVID-19 vaccinations and reopening
For a few brief weeks in February and March, Nancy Olaoye envied her friends in Canada. The 30-year-old, who moved from Toronto to...
Parents, experts worry about ‘snowball effect’ of literacy, development lags amid pandemic schooling
Jon Bahen finds the more people in his work-from-home Zoom meetings, the less effective they can be. Imagine then how difficult it is...
Why you can’t drive on this new, $616M Toronto-area highway
The $616-million extension of Highway 427 near Toronto sits unused and off-limits to drivers amid a legal dispute between the Ford government and the...
Canada is touting hydrogen as crucial to its climate action plan, but how green is it?
Hello, Earthlings! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more...
What a Legault-Trudeau detente might mean for the Liberals in Quebec
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has ventured into Quebec twice in the past two weeks to make joint announcements with Premier François Legault. If their...
Why Alberta has identified more variant cases but they’re believed to be more prevalent in Ontario
Alberta has identified more COVID-19 variants of concern to date than any other province, but the variants are actually estimated to have gained...
Humboldt Broncos crash survivor Kaleb Dahlgren’s memoir tells the story of a hockey life interrupted
Kaleb Dahlgren says he still has no memory of the crash that changed his life. Dahlgren played right wing for the Humboldt Broncos...
Driver killed 2 in crash, admitted drinking, but police didn’t test him and charges were never laid
After his car struck two people in a crosswalk, the driver of a Volkswagen Jetta told a Calgary police officer he’d been speeding,...
Yes, the pandemic will end — but COVID-19 isn’t going away any time soon
As the months passed in 2020, and a mysterious new virus spread around the world, prompting lockdowns and whirlwind scientific research, it was...
Freeland presses Tories to speed up passage of COVID-19 relief bill
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is appealing to the Official Opposition Conservatives to hasten passage of a COVID-19 relief bill through the House...
Help for dying woman was 2 minutes away, but took 80 minutes to arrive
A grieving Nova Scotia husband wants to know why it took 80 minutes for help to come as his wife lay dying in...
5 cases of variant first found in South Africa confirmed at Mississauga, Ont., condo, on-site testing ordered
Widespread testing for all residents at a condominium in Mississauga, Ont., will start on Monday after five cases of the coronavirus variant first detected...
‘We did the best we could’ — a conversation with the co-chair of Canada’s vaccine task force
Dr. Joanne Langley is a pediatric infectious disease physician and a professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Community Health and Epidemiology at...
Masks mess with our brain’s ability to recognize faces, but research suggests there is a silver lining
Nearly a year into the pandemic, remembering to grab your mask before walking out the door may be getting easier, but recognizing your...
Disrupted schooling, learning loss will have effects long after pandemic, say education experts
Compared to last spring’s nationwide school shutdown, Monica Belyea and her kids children having a slightly easier time with remote learning this winter term....
