Tracey Lindeman

Canada has universal health care and millions of doses on order. So why are so few of its citizens vaccinated?

Since the dawn of curbside recycling some 40 years ago, millions of Americans now subscribe to the idea of recycling. That success was helped along by the advent of single-stream recycling around 2005, which allowed people to put everything in one bin rather than sorting according to material. Many U.S. communities hopped on board.
Single-stream was seen as a positive evolution: It was easier for people to do, and it cost haulers—and cities, by virtue of downstream savings—less than the previ...

From Bourbon Street bachelorette parties to Mardi Gras rituals, tourism drives the economy of New Orleans—to the tune of a record-breaking $9 billion last year. A majority of the city’s jobs are tied up in the service and hospitality sectors, making New Orleans almost wholly dependent on the people who come to party, listen to music, and take ghost tours.
But come Dec. 1, new rules on short-term rentals may change New Orleans’s fortunes. Alongside efforts in Jersey City, Los Angeles, and Toro...

For many Americans, accessing financial assistance during the pandemic has been like chasing a dot on the horizon: The closer you get, the further away it is.
And some people never catch it. Research from Columbia University published in October shows the poorest Americans are now even poorer, despite the generous top-up unemployment benefits paid out by the $2.2 trillion CARES Act. By September, the researchers noted, “the monthly poverty rate for Black and Hispanic individuals was 25.2% and...

This is an installment of Pandemic Purchases, a special series of personal essays about the items bought in the last year that brought the most value and joy to our lives and work while living in lockdown.
When the pandemic hit, I didn’t buy a pressure cooker, or a bicycle, or a mega-pack of toilet paper. I didn’t buy a single thing.
Instead, over the course of a year of lockdowns, I bought more like 200 things.
I’m talking about plants—small, cute, pink-and-white-and-green plants, big leafy ...

Canada began imposing tariffs Sunday on $12.6 billion in U.S. goods as retaliation for the Trump administration's new taxes on steel and aluminum imported to the United States.

In 2007, Laura Grosman, an 18-year-old university student in Ottawa learned that Canada was the only Allied nation that didn’t have a monument to victims of the Holocaust.
The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, Grosman was incensed and began lobbying politicians. It was perplexing that Canada—a country that had played an integral role on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 and helped to end World War II—had no permanent marker for the civilian victims of that war.
Ten years later, Canada’s Na...

Canadian technology companies are greeting a new federal blueprint for hiring foreign talent with open arms – and cautious optimism.

Changing a store’s window display regularly is good retail business sense. But for Bref MTL, changing the display is the business.

As a quarter of the world’s population, Muslims have incredible collective buying power; Muslims worldwide spent $243-billion (U.S.) on clothing last year, according to a report on the global Islamic economy.