Opinion

Outside the air is warming up. The daffs, tulips and cherry blossoms are dazzling us with their perfume and vibrant colours. Despite the season of outdoor renewal, social distancing prevents us from participating fully in the joys of spring.

It’s never easy to ask for help, but here we are... A few years back when community papers were not just struggling but closing at an unprecedented rate, someone floated the idea of asking readers for a “voluntary subscription.

Given the situation with COVID-19, people are understandably rather down. Even though restaurants aren’t open for dine-in services, you can stay positive and look for simple joys as a foodie and oenophile, a connoisseur of wines, at home.

Depleted aquifers, drought, and dust storms in the American Southwest bring out the worst in people and their politics, allowing gangs and militias to run rampant, loosely controlled by the remaining city-states in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife

If you used to take public transit before the COVID-19 pandemic, and for any reason are not now, I’m wondering if you will ever trust the close quarters of public transit with your health again? I’ve had people ask me for recommendations on bikes lat

Bombed out of their home and fleeing from the former Yugoslavia often under machine gun fire, my mother’s family spent several years during and after World War Two as refugees in Germany, awaiting their acceptance in Canada.

Dear Editor, It’s nice to see more people out in the parks these days, but unfortunately the slobs are out too.

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert The Lily Playhouse is a crumbling theatre in 1940s New York, hosting shows with chorus lines, flashy dancers, and not much plot.

Dear Editor, Re: “We all need a property tax break,” Letters, March 19 I agree with Mahmood Awan’s letter that the city has to step up during this crisis and, at the very least, implement a two-year freeze on taxes — if not an outright deduction.

Dear Editor, Re: “Maybe we’re the real virus?” Letters, March 29 We are not the virus. COVID-19 is nothing to be celebrated, nor should it be regarded as a force for good.