This accountant had to give up her career during the pandemic. Now she designs modular kids’ toys
"I found a product designer based in Paris who could turn my drawings into 3-D foam renderings"
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“Students feel like their generation has been shortchanged”: How U of T engineering dean Christopher Yip is filling the education deficit
Making the leap from high school to university is harder than ever this year
Toronto restaurants and stores selling boxes filled with everything you need for a backyard barbecue
The only thing you need to provide is the grill
“I went from making small bowls to doing custom furniture”: When her wedding shoots dried up, this photographer started woodworking
"I still have those moments when I finish a piece, step back and think, 'Wow. I made that'"
“I knew I could save more money by moving home with my parents”: This project manager scored a downtown condo for $638,000
The condo market was picking up, so he put in an offer over asking
“We’re now booked solid every weekend until mid-July”: What reopening is like for the city’s busiest patios
"When we started seating people, everyone in line started applauding"
This Torontonian transformed his coffee truck into a mobile vaccine clinic
"Our vehicles were 33 feet long, with four fridges and a freezer, and they could hold tens of thousands of vaccines"
“Companies began reaching out to ask for custom orders”: This couple started making kitschy beeswax candles during the pandemic
Their signature candle is inspired by a 1960s knick-knack they bought for $5 at a pub in Elora
“It’s like the ultimate bubble”: Camp director Jack Goodman on why kids desperately need overnight camp this summer
"I've been hearing from parents who say that going to camp is the first thing their child has been excited about all year"
“I guess, in a pandemic, this is what you call nightlife”: Scenes from the epic, 32-hour Doses After Dark overnight vaccine clinic in Peel
One person described it as "a vaccine rave"
“My sister bought oxygen tanks on the black market”: This Toronto psychologist’s entire family in India has Covid
When Tanaya Chatterjee found out that her father had tested positive for Covid, the first thing she wanted to do was jump on a plane. Then she found out her mom and sister had it too
“I can boil it down to three words—golf is safe”: A Q&A with the head of Golf Ontario
"Golf can provide people with a way to get outside and maybe have a bit of hope during these challenging lockdowns"
“Every shift is like a 12-hour workout”: This pharmacist was redeployed to work the front lines at a hospital
"As a pharmacist, I’ve rarely had to engage that fight-or-flight response"
“People may get sick and die because they decided to wait”: Family doctor Ritika Goel on why the NACI’s vaccine messaging is so dangerous
"The thing to keep in mind is that this vaccine has been approved by Health Canada, and it is absolutely safe"
“The deaths we’re seeing in this third wave were preventable”: What it’s like to work as an ICU nurse right now
"In some of the bigger ICUs where I’ve worked, we’ve been 10 nurses short"
