This ran shortly before the library closed. Reading to your children is one of the best and most important things you can do to help them succeed in school –…
1. Wealthy urbanites are fleeing to their second homes — buying out grocery stores, expecting personal shoppers and home delivery, swelling vacation towns’ size to summer proportions. This is the…
The deadly Nipah virus originates in fruit bats and, in the case of recent outbreaks, is likely being transmitted to humans via contaminated date palm syrup or fruit Photo by…
A mask shortage hit the Czech Republic early in their efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 and the people reacted swiftly by making their own masks. Indeed, people in…
You know the old saw: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. We can all wonder at the colossal stupidity of the republicans in the American congress who fought to…
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” observed Samuel Johnson, a great wit of the 18th…
holy shit this @JoeBiden ad is good. pic.twitter.com/CAgIrt2Zua — Florida Chris (@chrislongview) March 26, 2020
About a week ago I ran a picture of Andrew Scheer grinning and chuckling during a debate on the Coronavirus, no doubt thinking that he could use the medical emergency…
Dr. Courtney Howard, is an emergency physician. She’s also president of the Canadian Association of Physicians. Not surprisingly she’s been run off her feet trying to deal with the COVID-19…
Supporters and mourners walk together in the streets of downtown Saskatoon, SK during the Sisters in Spirit Vigil & March, October 6, 2019. Canada is in a crisis of epic…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brendan Kennedy reports on the massive job losses being caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Andrew Jackson offers his suggestions to provide immediate help…
“We are facing a period of profound adversity unlike any we have since the 1930s,” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said last week. The premier was referring to the province’s economy…
Taiwanese evacuees from Wuhan arrive in Taiwan on a charter flight. Photo courtesy of the Taiwanese government’s Central Epidemic Command Center. Over the course of the last few weeks, with…
After nearly 10 days of self-isolation and a complete collapse of the world economy, where are we at? Once again, the US is #1, but for all the wrong reasons.
We’re in hard times and in these times, we need a lot of empathy and compassion for others out there. Let’s face it, as human beings that’s not something we…
Researchers are working around the world and around the clock to ensure that we can stymie the spread and harm from COVID-19. Today, a new clinical study run by the…
The coronavirus provides us with a societal mirror in which we can see our flaws. In the United States, the flaws are glaring. Bruce Arthur writes: In the United States…
We should all applaud the ingenuity of cashiers and others in their efforts to maintain social separation at this difficult time. The prize for the most ingenious solution should go…
