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Behind the stories of COVID-19

Globe and Mail health journalists, editors and foreign correspondents reflect on the early days of the coronavirus pandemic and offer a look inside how the spread of COVID-19 was covered

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What a response Canada!

To everyone who nominated a family member, a friend, or a neighbour in their community for the Holidays for Heroes program, thank you, for helping us thank our heroes.

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Stay healthy and fit

Fitness

As the fitness industry prepares to reopen, a look at how businesses have coped during the pandemic

If you break a sweat, you’re doing it wrong. The long and short of fitness’s growing trend of assisted stretching

Non-traditional training equipment to make your home gym more like a real gym

Minimalist training is perfect in the time of COVID-19

wellness

Chances are the wellness spaces in your city are owned, and patronized, by white people. That’s a problem

A more precise way to heal Achilles tendon injuries

Do masks protect me from COVID-19 or just prevent me from spreading it? What kind should I wear?

Over 65? Pay attention to your protein intake

Recipes

The Reuben, remixed: With broccoli rabe and an omelette added to this mix, this sandwich is satisfying any time of day

Lucy Waverman: 10 recipes to use up the rest of your summer tomatoes

New cookbook Help Yourself focuses on gut health with recipes like grilled swordfish with pineapple salsa

Lucy Waverman: 10 simple no-cook recipes to make the most of end-of-summer produce

Mental health

RCMP in Alberta say man dead after he called 911 and told police he wanted shootout

From infection control to mental-health assistance, COVID-19-related research will have enduring benefits

Medical schools pivot to prepare and protect students for front-line work

Some people with disabilities have been isolated in their care homes for months. Experts say it could lead to an ‘avalanche’ of mental-health issues

Gardening

Meet the 95-year-old who tends Rudy’s Garden in Toronto’s Jane-Finch neighbourhood

Ecologist’s wild garden is a challenge to lawn order

Has the pandemic changed how we eat forever?

Self-watering and monitoring smart gardens are a boon for those living in small spaces

Support those in need

Second Harvest

Second Harvest rescues and redistributes fresh, perishable food so it doesn’t go to waste and provides millions of meals to vulnerable Canadians.

Support the COVID-19 Emergency Fund

Resources for you

WellCan

Provides Canadians with the support they need to navigate challenges brought on by COVID-19, build resiliency and develop healthy coping mechanisms for the future.

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Family life at home

Parenting

This robot helps sick children beat loneliness

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Parenting SOS: With school back, how can we make the separation between the kids and their grandparents easier?

AI-powered smart crib automatically rocks babies to sleep

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Relationships

I’m a divorced father of four teenagers. How do I stay connected with them?

I was publicly scolded by a stranger. Do I defend myself, or ignore it stoically?

I hate the canvas painting I bought online, but my husband really likes it. Advice?

Home & Design

Accessible with style: A greying population calls for attractive solutions to accessibility needs

Ask a design expert: How do we maximize our home’s coziness as cooler weather arrives?

Ask a design expert: How can we decorate around our TV so it doesn’t look like a big black box?

Education

LIFE

How to get your kids back into routines

This is a back-to-school year unlike any other. There are the worries about sending kids in to classrooms and the practical matter of families trying to get back on track

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Support those in need

Community Food Centres Canada

Community Food Centres Canada's network of 200+ partners provide take-away meals, delivery, food hampers and other emergency supports to those in need.

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Protect your business

Working Remotely

From in-office to virtual: Workplaces are adapting co-op placements to employ students remotely

COVID-19 is a referendum on the value of work

The future of work? You’re living it

Shopify to vacate Ottawa headquarters in virtual office push

management

Are you a human bottleneck, slowing progress in the workplace?

Debunking the ‘counterproductive nonsense’ of disruptive thinking and employee engagement

How to actually save time working remotely

Hiring, talent density and what we can still learn from Netflix

Careers

Let’s not lose sight of Canada’s working moms and their value to our economy

Can I ask about salary expectations before I even get the job interview?

Parents struggle with balancing work and back-to-school plans

Can a fresh grad land her first marketing job during a pandemic?

Small Businesses

Restaurants seek help in Throne Speech amid forecast that 60 per cent will fail by November

Subsidies in steep decline as companies abandon emergency wage relief

Save Small Business advocacy campaign to wind down its Canadian pandemic policy efforts

Ottawa extending its widely criticized pandemic rent-relief program

Globe and Mail Events

Join our new weekly coronavirus call-in

Take a deep dive into the impact of COVID-19 on everything from personal finances to online education to food supply and security at a Globe and Mail virtual event. Watch recordings of previous virtual events or see what’s coming next.

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Resources for you

Royal Society of Canada

Providing peer-reviewed reports on key issues of science, society and public policy developed by the RSC community of experts.

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Safeguard your finances

Carrick on Money

The Canada ‘stop wasting food’ guide

Rob Carrick

Opinion

Hey, wasn’t saving more money during COVID-19 supposed to make us feel better about our finances?

Rob Carrick

Pandemic personal finance update finale: A 10-point checklist of things you should have done by now to protect or improve your money situation

Pandemic Personal Finance Update No. 9: The mark of money success in the next 12 months will be how much you save

Pandemic Personal Finance Update No. 8: How to save $1,000 a month by working at home

Pandemic Personal Finance Update No. 7: Retirement postponed, plus the coming second wave of money stress

Pandemic Personal Finance Update No. 6: First-time home buyers with job security should get preapproved for a mortgage

Pandemic Personal Finance Update No. 5: How to get relief on car payments and free financial planning (Plus, prepare to pay taxes on the CERB)

Pandemic personal finance update No. 4: How the cost of making your mortgage go away for six months could top $2,000

The ‘decade of the home’ is coming – will young adults be locked out?

September 17 Updated

Have people been too quick to relocate from big cities during the pandemic?

Rob Carrick September 15

Happening now: Millennials, COVID-19 and the high cost of big-city living: Facebook Live with Rob Carrick and Roma Luciw

September 11 Updated

It’s amazing what not spending on travel and eating out can do

Rob Carrick September 10

PORTFOLIO

The power to act decisively even amid uncertainty

Portfolio gives you the tools that keep your investments moving in the right direction even amid uncertainty

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Improving Financial Literacy

Canadian Foundation for Economic Education

The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education provides free resources to support economic, financial, and entrepreneurship capability. There are resources for the general public, youth, teachers, parents, newcomers, and seniors

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Entertainment

Television

Adapting fast: Making day-to-day TV in a pandemic

Battle of the Brits: Acorn and BritBox seek to win over curious, and locked-down, Canadian audiences

Circus of Books and 9/11 Kids: Two great stories of growing up in strange circumstances in the U.S.

No sex, no sin: Why Netflix’s repulsive Too Hot to Handle is an icky hit

Books

‘I’m thinking of hitting Soleimani’: Woodward’s book recounts how Trump made the call to kill an Iranian general

At 50, Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock still resonates

Fall books preview: Plan a reading marathon with these 68 best picks

Not all heroes wear capes: Peter Nowak’s new book The Rise of Real-Life Superheroes considers why some do

Music

New Gord Downie solo album Away is Mine represents the rock troubadour’s ‘last gasp’

Long-lost cult-status musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland emerges with transmissions from the past

Royal Conservatory of Music forges ahead with a season of in-person, indoor concerts during COVID-19

Men Without Hats’s Ivan Doroschuk on the strange timeliness of their hit song The Safety Dance in a pandemic

The Arts

Sew, David: The therapeutic power of stitching tiny replicas of Schitt’s Creek sweaters

‘Nomadland’ wins People’s Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival

Royal BC Museum granted new facility for archives, collections and research department

Former TransCanada executive Dennis McConaghy wins Donner Prize for book on pipelines

Resources for you

CAMH - mental health is health

Access resources developed by the CAMH team of experts to support your mental health throughout this critical time.

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Resources for you

United Way 211

Toll-free phone line and online directory connecting Canadians with vital community and social resources from basic needs, to support for seniors and children, to crisis response.

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Coronavirus Update Newsletter

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Coronavirus call-in series

Coronavirus Insights & Updates with Cathal Kelly and Simon Houpt on the future of sports

This Coronavirus Insights & Updates, a new call-in series, allowing you to get closer to the stories, and hear the latest developments from our experts.

The economic, political, and societal impacts of COVID-19

This Coronavirus Insights & Updates, a new call-in series, allowing you to get closer to the stories, and hear the latest developments from our experts.

Coronavirus Insights & Updates with André Picard, Nicole MacIntyre and David Walmsley

This Coronavirus Insights & Updates, a new call-in series, allowing you to get closer to the stories, and hear the latest developments from our experts.

Coronavirus Insights & Updates with Eric Reguly

This Coronavirus Insights & Updates, a new call-in series, allowing you to get closer to the stories, and hear the latest developments from our experts.

Coronavirus Insights & Updates with Ivan Semeniuk

This Coronavirus Insights & Updates, a new call-in series, allowing you to get closer to the stories, and hear the latest developments from our experts.

Coronavirus Insights & Updates with Nathan VanderKlippe

This Coronavirus Insights & Updates, a new call-in series, allowing you to get closer to the stories, and hear the latest developments from our experts.

Coronavirus Insights & Updates with André Picard

Welcome to Coronavirus Insights & Updates, a new call-in series, allowing you to get closer to the stories, and hear the latest developments from our experts.

Puzzles

Puzzles and crosswords

Diversions to exercise your brain

Test your mental mettle with this brain-twisting assortment of word, logic and number puzzles by Fraser Simpson, creator of The Globe and Mail’s cryptic crossword.

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