Canada Day events, a new slate of outdoor markets and of course the Big Gay Dog Walk
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COVID-19
The Most Expensive Event In History: How the Death and Devastation of COVID-19 Ranks Against Prior Global Disasters
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
Policing
Police Are Facing Ever-Rising Rates of Mental Health Calls, Raising the Risk of Tragedies Like the Shooting of Chantel Moore
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
