Stress
Fear, frustration, compassion and shame: What nurses are dealing with during the pandemic
(WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions that may disturb or offend some readers.) There are close to 450,000 nurses in Canada. Some work...
Mortgage rates hit a new low, with Canadian bank posting below 1%
HSBC has come out with a variable rate mortgage at 0.99 per cent, which industry watchers believe is the first such posted offer below...
Edmonton physician says informing families of COVID deaths comes at a personal cost
When one of her patients dies, Dr. Daisy Fung picks up the phone to inform the person’s family. Fung has made these calls...
Pandemic leaves students with disabilities disconnected from peers and short on support
Navigating school this fall has meant a host of new challenges for learners with disabilities, with both students and families often having to advocate...
Parents welcome asymptomatic COVID-19 tests in schools, even if the news isn’t always good
It’s been a bit of a roller-coaster weekend for Toronto father Yaser Nadaf, after Ontario’s new asymptomatic testing for schools in COVID-19 hot spots...
Students burnt out by pandemic learning push more universities toward longer winter breaks
When McMaster University student Elisa Do learned last week that her school would be delaying the start of classes in January following the...
Toronto police officer says she faced years of sexist, racist retribution for reporting colleague
A Toronto police officer alleges she was subjected to years of intimidation and reprisals by fellow officers and supervisors after she intervened to...
Pandemic ‘pressure cooker’ is driving more couples to seek advice about separation, divorce
Tara Mandarano found herself stressed and frustrated during the COVID-19 lockdown last spring. Like millions of Canadians, she was struggling to work from...
Calls to Kids Help Phone have surged. Now some counsellors are making a distress call of their own
Kids Help Phone, the charity that offers 24/7 counselling services to young Canadians in distress, needs to listen to the concerns of its stressed staff if...
Conservative MP calls for nationwide three-digit suicide hotline
As health professionals warn that the pandemic is taking a heavy toll on many Canadians’ mental health, a Conservative MP is calling on the federal...
Teachers say return to school this fall has left them with overwhelming stress and a never-ending workload
Teachers Under Strain: CBC News journalists in Atlantic Canada and eastern Ontario teamed up to send out questionnaires to thousands of teachers to...
Post-secondary students decry cyber exam monitoring tools, urge changes to how they’re assessed
Canadian colleges and universities are in the midst of midterm exam season. But with many students forced to trade in-person lectures and labs...
Military members who report sexual misconduct still say they’re being dismissed by chain of command: report
Five years into the Canadian military’s formal crackdown on sexual misconduct, some victims still report being bullied, harassed and singled out by superior...
An Innu teen died in care. Now a fired social worker is speaking out
Wally Rich, a 15-year-old from Natuashish, took his own life in a Labrador group home in May. (Submitted by Innu Nation) The system...
‘They chose the wrong person’: Pierre Laporte’s son reflects on his murder 50 years after October Crisis
It’s been almost 50 years since Jean Laporte learned from a television report that his father had been killed by a radical group...
As parts of Canada tighten COVID restrictions, experts say rapid testing offers a way forward
With some regions now in the grips of a second pandemic shutdown, some scientists are saying the deployment of rapid tests is the best way to...
