Even with nearly 500,000 dead, the world dodged a bullet in terms of what could have been. The economy, however, may never be the same.

Chinese-Canadians may have done more than any single community to shield Western Canada from the worst excesses of COVID-19

Trivia nights, sessions to help reopen through COVID-19 and "theatre home delivery" service

A UBC study attributed the spike in broken male genitals to the unintended consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns

Mobs had sought vengeance against the city's Germans, but succeeded only in shattering their own downtown

Canadian police face a "significant increase" in mental health-related calls, and as the killing of Vancouver Island woman Chantel Moore shows, sometimes these calls can go terribly wrong

It doesn't stick to surfaces as much as we thought, and is particularly slow to spread outdoors

According to experts, BC’s embattled killer whales are now enjoying quieter seas and increased fish