Idella Sturino

Nearly every day Abbie Richards gets messages from people who are anxious or stressed about climate change, and she says it’s time to change the narrative. Instead of doom and gloom, she says people need to take action.

Even though Canada opened its doors to the United States, America won’t open its border to Canadians for non-essential travel until Aug. 21, and there are some concerns that might be delayed because of rising cases of the Delta variant of COVID-19.

The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore takes a look back at how the polio vaccine saved lives and changed the course of history, and how resistance to it may be repeated in the era of COVID-19.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford takes his fight over the federal carbon tax to a Toronto courtroom this week, in a bid to have the measure ruled unconstitutional. We weigh up the arguments about provincial authority, and national health and the fight against climate change.