Toronto will add 40km of super nice bike lanes this year

The big corona question: will any of this manifest meaningful change in our lives once the pandemic settles? The City of Toronto is banking on yes. Yesterday, City Council approved 40 kilometres of new on-street bike lanes around the city. The project is part of Toronto’s ActiveTO initiative, which seeks

Touchy Torontonians force mayor to consider “social distancing circles”

One nice day and y’all just couldn’t keep yourselves distant, could you? Toronto’s Trinity Bellwoods park was pretty much a festival over the weekend despite the fact that social distancing is literally the only job many people have right now. I mean, look at this: That there is COVID’s wet

New Zealand considers 4-day workweek to re-vivify economy

As the pandemic drags on, many are looking for silver linings. The dominant theory is that we will make profound changes to the poisonous ways in which we lived before coronavirus. Whether we experience an awakening or have misplaced our optimism remains to be seen. But New Zealand is already

Halifax team behind Ebola vaccine will begin trial for coronavirus vaccine

The first Canadian clinical trials for a potential COVID-19 vaccine are set to begin. The trials will be conducted by the Halifax research team that was involved in the eventual Ebola virus vaccine in 2014. They will take place at the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology at Dalhousie University. While releasing

Canadians are going hard on coffee, alcohol and pregnancy tests

Remember that viral Kitty O’Meara poem which optimistically suggested the pandemic would cause people to slow down and reflect and heal and all that? Well, nah. People are just as keen to indulge in their cravings as ever. More so, actually. According to Statistics Canada, Canadians are going harder than