Pandemic

Homicides involving firearms during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic reached the highest rates the country has seen in more than a quarter century, according to new CDC data. From 2019 to 2020, gun-related homicides increased from 14,392 to 19,350, representing a 35% increase (4.6 to 6.1 per 100,000…

Screenvision can count its lucky stars that the latest entrant in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — scored $185 million over the weekend in North American box office receipts. The in-cinema advertising and content company hosts its first annual in-person upfront presentation tonight,…

Photo: True Touch Lifestyle (Shutterstock) If you have parented children—especially young ones—during the past two years of the pandemic, you are likely feeling, shall we say, tired. All parents have felt the enormous stress of trying to raise decent, well-adjusted humans while fear and isolation skyrocketed, the structures and resources…

Photo: ImYanis (Shutterstock) The amount of Americans flying has finally returned back to its pre-pandemic numbers, which means that on any given day, there are nearly two million people in the sky mindlessly scrolling through whatever apps still work on airplane mode. A handful of airlines are doing their part…

In the garb of tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using the Shanghai lockdown to implement the most draconian of its surveillance and authoritarian systems, the kinds of which were only seen in far-off provinces like Xinjiang till now. Since April, the 25 million residents of…

95% Awesome The upbeat summer EP we all needed! One of the greatest products of the rise of TikTok during the pandemic is the increase of songwriters and artists to be able to promote their music and hack the algorithm to gain following. One of the greatest successes of this…

From an employer perspective, there is no better time to terminate than when the market is white hot and there are more jobs available than people to fill them. Photo by Steven Wilhelm/Postmedia With the addition of 18,000 net new jobs in April compared to March, the capital region has…

“If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades,” said Bill Gates in a 2015 TED Talk, “it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.” At the time, West Africa was battling a devastating Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people, and…

The city of Paju in Gyeonggi Province, which sits close to the border with North Korea, on Wednesday resumed tours of the demilitarized zone after a more than two-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Third Tunnel and the Mt. Dora Observatory are open to 40 people per tour…

"I have never seen anything so uncertain as a CEO ever, where you couldn't have some predictability on what the next month would look like it was it was a real roller coaster ride." Regina International Airport CEO James Bogusz. Photo by BRANDON HARDER /Regina Leader-Post Last year was a…