Knitting is helping this Canadian in Italy make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic
When Canadian lawyer Sarah McLean first took up knitting in 2017, she was drawn to the craft her grandmother loved as a way to relax and make…
Alberta’s first 500 COVID deaths took nearly 9 months. The next 500 took just 34 days.
Alberta recently recorded its 1,000th COVID-19 death, a grim milestone that arrived in a flash.It took nearly nine months for Alberta to record its first 500 deaths;…
Dildo was hoping to cash in on a post-Kimmel boom — then came the pandemic
Sulagna Sanyal, left, and Rajesh Menon opened Yes B’y Indian Restaurant in the Newfoundland community of Dildo this past summer. (Chris O'Neill-Yates/CBC)When Sulagna Sanyal and Rajesh Menon…
The dark side: 2020 was a boom year for horror on-screen — and that’s no accident
The meaning behind Netflix's The Platform is hard to miss: "an accidentally timely political allegory," the New York Times called it, "a brutal capitalist horror film," said…
Moms are welcoming the first wave of ‘coronial’ babies — but experts say to expect fewer births
Kennedy Amyotte's first-born child will open her eyes to the world and see her mother's face behind a mask.Due Jan. 13, she will experience many of her…
How Canadians will know when it’s their turn to get vaccinated
With the recent announcement that Health Canada has approved Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, the second being made available to the public, Canadians are likely wondering when it will…
Federal program gives young newcomers paid work experience — and reason to hope
Fashion designer Soniagandhi Chinnasamy left her job at a clothing company in one of India's largest cities last year to move to Canada with her husband, a…
How daily work is changing on P.E.I. as wind and temperature patterns shift
Look out your window. Is there a tree there that provides a shady spot in your yard in the summer, a splash of colour in the fall?…
Alberta death toll from COVID-19 pandemic tops 1,000
More than 1,000 people have now died from COVID-19 in Alberta, though active cases have continued to follow a downward trend over the past five days.The declining…
For independent bookstores, the pandemic has been the start of a new chapter
Just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Mika Weaver ordered more than 300 puzzles for her Ottawa bookstore. Then all non-essential businesses were shut down."I was up at…
Casual social contacts can help combat loneliness and improve well-being during pandemic, psychologists say
Jennie Aitken, 33, began noticing it weeks into the pandemic.The Victoria woman has a family and was frequently checking in with good friends, but since her management…