When Home Isn’t Safe: Domestic Violence Cases Increasing During COVID-19
Canada’s domestic violence problem was already a crisis. COVID-19 has made the situation critical. Current calls to self-isolate have created optimal conditions...
Features
Waterloo Region Tiny Isolation Stories: Chapter 2
"I'm a single, full-time working parent of a two-year-old. During this period of social isolation, I've been balancing working from home with parenting a very b...
Waterloo Region Tiny Isolation Stories: Chapter 1
"Isolation is not new for me. I have been through it before: from 2007, when I had my first baby, to 2016 when my third was born. For nine long years, I did not...
Pharmacists Need Our Help During COVID-19 Say Pharmacy Students
A group of Ontario pharmacy students started an initiative to help local front-line pharmacists and workers risking their own health in the fight against COVID-...
How Local Businesses are Surviving COVID-19
Amidst the turbulence and uncertainty brought on by the global COVID-19 crisis, the resilience and humanity of our local small business community remain a const...
CareMongering-KW Offers Compassionate Community Care
During these uncertain times, it is important to look to our community for stories of people coming together to extend a helping hand. CareMongering-KW: Kitchen...
The Inside Scoop – Four All’s New Uptown Store
JESSE DERRY PHOTO Ice cream in the winter? Yes, please! Ajoa Mintah, founder of Four All Ice Cream is ready to bring her handcrafted ice cream to uptown Wat...
Tiny Love Stories Volume 2
Former editor Beth Bowles introduced us to tiny love stories last year. And we love a recurring series.
Beth had been following The New York Times’ Modern Love...
Let’s Go To The Movies: KW Theatres 1920-2020
When my editors at the Community Edition revealed they were interested in content that contrasted life in the 1920s Kitchener-Waterloo area with 2020, my mind w...
100 Years Later, We Still Got That Swing
There was a time when the weekend was less about Netflix and chill, and more about jumping, jiving and wailing — a.k.a going out to swing the night away to the ...