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Canadians embraced helping vulnerable community members during the COVID lockdowns. Here’s why we should never stop taking care of one another.

So-called "CareMongering" groups were a trend in the early days of the pandemic. Two years later, the Kitchener-Waterloo version is still active with many people asking and offering help.

There’s got to be a better way to fund conservation in Mass. Updated May 4, 2021, 2:30 a.m. Email to a Friend Yes, we all should pay to support the outdoors Why is MassWildlife, a state agency with a wide-ranging and important mandate, expected to be largely self-funded? In the front-page article “Wild but not free” (April 28), Billy Baker offers the question, “Is it time for everyone to pay for the outdoors?” The answer is yes, of course. We pay for pretty much everything else out of our taxes, and I do understand the history of the wildlife conservation funding str...

KITCHENER -- A Facebook group in Guelph has paused its operations due to some negative comments. The volunteer administrators for Caremongering Guelph said it's taking too much time to make sure everyone is behaving. The page was started to by two friends and has more than 5,000 members. "Just wanted to create something where people can check in, not feel alone," moderator Monica Pease said. The community's needs changed as the pandemic evolved. "The first week of the pandemic, we're worried about toilet paper, masks, sanitizing," moderator Crista Renner said. "Toward the next couple o...