A new exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum displays dozens of masks from around the world—testaments to human ingenuity in the face of crisis
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Should I be wearing two masks?
With the arrival of new, more contagious variants of COVID-19 in Canada, experts are recommending an upgrade in the quality—and quantity—of our face coverings
Want to make better public-health citizens? Give people what feels good, now.
Mark Kingwell: The U.S. seems to lack the will to beat COVID-19, indulging instead in a ‘cult of selfishness’ that means the country fails the marshmallow test. But research states we’ll all fail the test sooner or later.
How going maskless became socially unacceptable
For many Canadians, a non-religious face-covering used to signal danger or shame. Now going without one does.
The look on Donald Trump’s face when he’s been proven wrong
Image of the Week: Either the U.S. president succumbed to weeks of expert consensus on masks, or he had an attack of common sense. Which is more likely?
Portraits of B.C.’s frontline health care workers as the province flattened the curve
These are the faces of workers in Mount Saint Joseph Hospital, who balanced hazardous jobs with anxious and, in some cases, lonely lives away from the hospital
Why Theresa Tam changed her stance on masks
Inderveer Mahal: The goal with a pandemic isn’t to remain consistent; it’s to respond to new information. We Canadians need to allow our experts to be fluid with their recommendations.
A bit of Trudeau coverage we can all appreciate
Image of the Week: The PM takes the word of Canada’s top public health official to heart—and puts it into action
The history of our cultural resistance against masks
Sadiya Ansari: In North America, instead of seeing masks as a form of communal protection, they evoke panic
The case for mandatory mask-wearing in Canada
Opinion: Countries that adopted universal masking saw their mortality rates go down within a couple of weeks. That should be all the proof we need.