As communities across Toronto navigate the thorny task of cultivating shared gardens during COVID-19, residents in one of the city’s densest neighbourhoods are using the pandemic to reimagine how they grow food together.
The Snowbirds aerobatics team was scheduled to make a trip from Kamloops to Vernon, B.C., on Sunday as part of Operation Inspiration during the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the Victoria Day weekend fireworks display at Ashbridge’s Bay may have been cancelled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Torontonians can still celebrate the May 2-4 weekend at home with smaller fireworks displays.
Public fireworks displays that traditionally mark the Victoria Day holiday have been cancelled across the GTA this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Toronto residents can still celebrate with them at home.
BERLIN—Bundesliga players and fans continued to adapt to the league’s empty stadium restart Sunday as defending champion Bayern Munich prepared to return to action.
MONTREAL—A Quebec patients’ rights group is urging the province to respect the fundamental rights of seniors living in care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
HALIFAX—A Halifax research team selected to conduct the first Canadian clinical trials for a possible COVID-19 vaccine was also involved in trials that eventually led to a vaccine for the Ebola virus.
As my mother triumphantly showed off the 22-lb. bag of flour she got from Food Basics, I immediately knew that pies would be in order as Ontario berries will soon be hitting the market.
VANCOUVER—Shayoni Mehta has only set foot outside of her residence in Pune, India, twice since March 23. Once for groceries and once for a doctor’s appointment.
OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau will take a break on Sunday and Monday from his COVID-19 briefings to spend some long weekend time with his family at the Harrington Lake prime ministerial retreat in Gatineau, Que.
The latest novel coronavirus news from Canada and around the world Sunday (this file will be updated throughout the day). Web links to longer stories if available.
The cancellation of the CNE earlier this week was the last of the three great pillars of the long, hot Toronto summer to fall. With Pride and Caribana also cancelled, is it even summer in the city?
On this long Victoria Day weekend, millions of Ontarians are enjoying a new level of freedom as the government begins to ease up on some of the coronavirus restrictions in place since early March.
Today’s coronavirus has echoes not just of more recent pandemics but of the medieval plague, a disease of unkown origin that unleashed terrible fear and hatred. In the following excerpt from her 2015 book, “From Tolerance to Tyranny: A Cautionary Tale from Fifteenth-Century Spain”, Erna Paris narrates the European experience of the plague, known as the Black Death, in the fourteenth century.
Like much else in life, pandemics aren’t fair. They take a larger toll on some cohorts of society than on others. Hardest hit, it will be news to no one, are typically those not favoured by fate or good fortune in the first place.
VICTORIA—British Columbia’s top doctor is urging residents to stay close to home over the long weekend in order to mitigate transmission of COVID-19 before some businesses reopen on Tuesday.
The public spat between owners and players over salary compensation has been stealing most of the attention lately, but the much bigger threat to the prospect of an upcoming baseball season can still be found in health and safety.
Rachel Lissner’s daily bagel with cream cheese has become a reliable part of her routine amidst the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, a comfort amidst the chaos.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is committed to more help for airlines after Air Canada announced plans to slash its workforce by at least half, but it’s unclear what that support might look like.