Pandemic

Cheung Pakhung, one of the world’s fastest rope skippers and a world champion, wants to get the city on its feet doing the sport he loves Sat on the ground, legs straight in front of him, Cheung Pak-hung flicks a rope behind his head, jumps to his feet, flips the…

Mitigating the risk of Covid-19 as China reopens CLINICAL MATTERS DR. EDSEL SALVANA What a wonderful holiday season we just had. Face-to-face gatherings are once again the norm after two years of keeping to our own households, and celebrations have been on par or exceeded pre-pandemic festivities. The fireworks on…

Cleveland is one of the poorest cities in the country. It’s far from the expensive coastal cities like New York City and San Francisco, where astronomically high rents are common. Cleveland doesn’t fit the stereotype of a city people want to move to; in fact, it has been losing population…

Here, a submission to the inquiry by Zurich Financial Services Australia head of health services Dr Sally Phillips makes interesting reading. She notes that claims for long COVID “remain low” in Australia, although the final known impact will be unclear for some time. Zurich controls roughly 15 per cent of…

After a real war that destroys much of a country’s physical capital, a surge of investment can of course produce an economic expansion; nonetheless, the country is poorer for having lost a large share of its wealth. The same is true of climate investments. A significant share of the existing…

Health-care workers. Photo by Stock art /Getty Images We have a medical system that is unresponsive, maladaptive and continually failing us in the current health-care crisis. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It is a system held together by health-care providers who were…

According to charging documents, at 10:57 that evening, a PayPal account registered to a Gmail address paid US $84.72 to Domino’s Pizza in Arbutus, Md. Minutes later, that email account received Venmo payments from users called Thomas Carey, Gabe Chase, and Jon Lizak. A separate Venmo email showed a payment…

Many school divisions say the COVID-19 pandemic had affected reading development in schools as some children couldn't access the same supports. Rachel Engler-Stringer is on the board of directors for Dyslexia Canada. Photo by Matt Smith /Saskatoon StarPhoenix While most Saskatchewan students went back to in-person classes early in 2022,…

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Life & LuxuryArts & CultureReviewDon DeLillo’s story may be almost 40 years old, but since the pandemic it has taken on a new resonance. Jan 5, 2023 – 2.19pm Some novels leave an indelible impression. I read Don DeLillo’s White Noise shortly after it appeared in the mid-1980s but can…