#The pandemic is breaking parents

#The pandemic is breaking parents

“#The pandemic is breaking parents” Like anyone, I can list off for you the pandemic moments that have broken me, as a parent of young kids. The first, I suppose, was having a newborn, a five-year-old and a two-year-old suddenly stuck at home in my full-time care in the spring of 2020, when the first…

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#Welcoming the (vaccinated) world back to Whistler

#Welcoming the (vaccinated) world back to Whistler

“#Welcoming the (vaccinated) world back to Whistler” After a long wait during the pandemic, the largest destination ski resort in North America is preparing to welcome vaccinated skiers back to the slopes September 20, 2021 – Whistler, British Columbia – Crews work on maintaining snow grooming machinery. (Photograph by Jimmy Jeong) Last year’s ski season…

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#Erin O’Toole chides Conservative MPs for spreading confusion about vaccines

#Erin O’Toole chides Conservative MPs for spreading confusion about vaccines

“#Erin O’Toole chides Conservative MPs for spreading confusion about vaccines” Politics Insider for Nov. 9, 2021: Conservatives spread vaccine confusion; Justin Trudeau on the attack; Valérie Plante wins again Erin O’Toole chastised CPC MPs on Monday for spreading confusion about vaccination, CP reports. He was responding, in part, comments from Marilyn Gladu, who said COVID…

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#Did the pandemic make post-secondary students more resilient?

#Did the pandemic make post-secondary students more resilient?

“#Did the pandemic make post-secondary students more resilient?” (Illustrations by Melanie Lambrick) Over the summer, when Maclean’s started chatting with students about how they were feeling almost 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, there was really only one perspective we didn’t expect: optimism. Considering a steady stream of news coverage about declining mental health among…

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#The elite Canadian pilot who’ll be flying Virgin Galactic tourists to space

#The elite Canadian pilot who’ll be flying Virgin Galactic tourists to space

“#The elite Canadian pilot who’ll be flying Virgin Galactic tourists to space” Janjua in front of the VSS Imagine, in Mojave, California, at the Virgin Galactic facility (Courtesy of Quinn Tucker/Virgin Galactic) Jameel Janjua calls them “future astronauts.” That’s partly corporate speak—Virgin Galactic’s preferred term for customers who pay upward of US$450,000 for tickets to…

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#Extending scholarship to oral traditions through podcasting

#Extending scholarship to oral traditions through podcasting

“#Extending scholarship to oral traditions through podcasting” How a group of creative Canadian academics is changing the face—or is that sound?—of scholarship In an early episode of his new podcast, Our Creaturely Kin, Daniel Heath Justice—a renowned First Nations and Indigenous studies professor at the University of British Columbia—will do a deep dive on coyotes….

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