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Tag Archives: Year Ahead 2021
2021 is going to look very, very similar to 2020
Scott Gilmore: The pandemic isn’t suddenly going away, Trump will still be around and the decline of American democracy will continue. Happy New Year!
This awful year may have reset our ability to appreciate happiness
Experts think that after months of depriving ourselves of everyday pleasures we once took for granted, our newfound appreciation for the little things might actually last beyond 2020
A letter to the mom at the playground: Our casual chats meant more than I realized
Amil Niazi: By early May, only 48 per cent of Canadians over the age of 15 reported excellent or very good mental health, down 20 per cent from 2018. The loss of acquaintances may play a role in that shift.
Let’s not ‘cancel’ Baby Yoda
Marie-Danielle Smith: ‘You see, in the before times, we were able to extend the benefit of the doubt to a 16-inch-tall animatronic baby.’
Old man Trudeau enters a likely election year as the veteran politician
The leader who rode youthful optimism to power will now contend with a pack of fresh faces in 2021 as an election likely looms
Burying Sir John A. Macdonald
The first prime minister will no longer be put on a pedestal as the debate turns to what to put up in his place
If anything will save us from the plight of 2020, it’s empathy
Michael Coren: We’ve seen evidence of it already. The very act of wearing a mask, for example, is a leap of empathy by thinking in the communal and behaving in the fraternal.
2021 is the year electric blankets are cool again
Today’s plug-in blankets are not the overheating, fire-starting throws that gave your grandmother anxiety back in the day
May 2021 be the year land is once again refuge for Indigenous people
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: During the pandemic, Indigenous people reconnected to their land, embracing bush life and learning to live in community with each other in times of trouble