"I’m often the only person my patients see, touch or talk to for weeks at a time. We develop real friendships, and that makes it all the more devastating when they die"
"It helps me feel like I’m making a bit of a difference in what seems like a hopeless situation"
"When the Black Lives Matter movement came alive, we brought in a therapist to talk about healing from racial trauma"
Ashley McEachern came up with her Covid-friendly fitness business in October
"When I shake my body, my emotions rise up to the surface. My dancing becomes joyful. And then I can look at my kids and notice that they’re cute again"
A year of loss, upheaval and a little bit of hope
Noah Roelofsen has built hundreds of backyard skating pads through his family business—and this year, demand is soaring
Laura Thomson, a Toronto middle school teacher, on what it's been like to be back in class during this turbulent time
My only salvation: voluntary deportation. Toronto became my home and my path to redemption
He DJ’d in Japan and worked for Canada Post
From our 2015 piece about police carding: A memoir about being black in Toronto
