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How do you think your kids, or your neighbour’s kids, or your sibling’s kids, are faring amid a pandemic’s back-to-school season? Tell The Tyee all about it:

The evildoer is less a landlord than it is the financial prospect of having every unit in a property occupied by a tenant. Patrick Condon analyzes the progress of banning renovictions in Vancouver. #vanpoli

A time traveller’s column: Our columnist and recovering sci-fi writer Crawford Kilian studied three expert projections of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Now, he writes us from Canada’s future:

Everyone from postal workers to people with disabilities are having a hard time on pandemic sidewalks. There’s just not enough room for everyone. Chris Cheung reports.

The ‘strong’ ones hardly make a herd. Immunity likely won’t last. Political motives cloud science and logic. Despite the theory’s popularity, here’s why the virus running free among the less vulnerable doesn’t pave a way back to ‘normal life.’ Andrew Nikiforuk writes.

Some say Camp Kennedy Trudeau is a safe place for homeless people who would be in more danger living on their own, but others fear it’s become too large. #vanpoli

If 95 per cent of the global population always wears masks in public, 130,000 lives could be saved. This and more in Brian Owens’ latest roundup of COVID-19 news, straight out of science journals:

Carl Sinclair was discovered bleeding, with broken ribs and a knife wound in his chest. His leg had to be amputated due to how long it took for someone to find him.

Ten years prior to the decision, being disputed by Premier Horgan, passengers have always been allowed to remain in their vehicles during travel if they preferred to leaving reasons for the move unclear. Bryan Carney investigates.

The Alberta Labour Relations Board ruled the strike to be illegal Monday night, forcing strikers to resume work. #abhealth #ableg #ablabour

With the rise in homelessness due to #BCCovid, the federal funding will be made available to 15 cities across Canada, including $16.4 million for Surrey and $13.3 million for Victoria.

I didn’t realize the picture I was taking might be the last. Larry Pynn on Takaya the wolf’s life as a celebrity, and the collective responsibility for his death: