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Four Indigenous skulls were gifted from one famous doctor to another almost 150 years ago. Could they still exist? From a letter found written by Dr. William Osler, two current day doctors picked up …

We wouldn’t have COVID-19 vaccines or know what we know about them without the people who went in blind — those who participated in the clinical trials to check for safety and efficacy. Ian Haydon fr…

A Star investigation has revealed the incredible toll on Amazon warehouse workers, based on internal company records. Worker injuries have spiked during COVID-19 with injury rates doubling in Toronto…

Facebook is facing an antitrust lawsuit brought forth by the Federal Trade Commission and 48 U.S. Attorney Generals accusing it of monopolistic behaviour. This may lead to unwinding its acquisitions …

Ontario marked the first recipient of the Health Canada-approved Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, with at least 96,000 more to follow by year’s end. Distribution will be the next challenge. Who get…

Premier Doug Ford seemed to strike a different tone in the first half of the pandemic, but now some critics think he's back to business as usual. His recent move to grant degrees at controversial rel…

Crime is like a virus in a pandemic. Just this week, news broke a hacker gained access to documents related to Pfizer and Biontech’s vaccine and in another case, $11 million was stolen from pandemic …

Kaavan, once dubbed the world’s loneliest elephant, captured worldwide attention last month when he was rescued from miserable conditions at a zoo in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad where he was h…

In the second wave of COVID-19, just as The Star reported in the first, Toronto Public Health data shows the inequality of the virus and who is impacted most. High positivity rates reveal racialized …

A vaccine has been a hope for many locked in, exhausted people grappling with the pandemic and today we learned an option for vaccination is a lot closer for Canadians than we thought. There has been…

“This Matters” heads back to the ER with Dr. David Carr, an emergency room physician in Toronto, to share the experiences of frontline health care workers, the health care lessons that have been lear…

While Toronto transforms in the summer, it seems to go into hiding in the winter. But now with COVID considered, it may be wise to embrace the season as cities like Montreal, Quebec City and Winnipeg…

Despite the name, access to rapid tests for COVID-19 in Canada is moving at a glacial pace. The federal government has purchased 38 million tests and rolled out 5.5 million to the provinces, where th…

The COVID-19 pandemic stirred the greatest shift in our workplaces in a generation when 3.4 million Canadians moved from their offices to work from home. That is not going to change anytime soon. Now…

Whatever you want to call it, the only way to characterize Trump’s post-election actions are extraordinary. From court challenges to pressuring state electors, the U.S. President took steps to stay i…

Until yesterday, despite cases rising and out-numbering bigger provinces, Albertans were free to dine out, shop and gather in groups even as Ontario went into lockdown and other provinces tightened r…

Governments have been criticized for confusing, and at times, contradictory messaging and policies on COVID-19 restrictions. Roxanne Khamsi, science journalist and contributor to WIRED Magazine, join…