Many universities see Covid-19 testing as the only way to safely bring students back to campuses this fall, but their approaches vary as widely as their mascots.

Drums of war starting to beat.

"Among those beating back the flames are more than 1,300 incarcerated firefighters who have been entrusted with the backbreaking work of clearing the fire-fueling vegetation in exchange for low wages and reduced sentences. Their ranks have been diminished by devastating Covid-19 outbreaks in California prisons."

"The crisis has underscored the country’s reliance on a narrow examination system that shapes the future of many young people by deciding where they go to university. And it has hit home at a moment of unusual disquiet."

"Police stopped Elijah McClain on the street in suburban Denver last year after deeming the young Black man suspicious. He was thrown into a chokehold, threatened with a dog and stun gun, then subjected to another law enforcement tool before he died: a drug called ketamine."

"Bernie Sanders, AOC and other progressives got prominent speaking slots, but on the policy front, Biden’s camp is sticking to traditional pro-Israel views in the battle against Trump ... The result of this delicate balancing act is that while the Sanders wing was visually represented in the multiple-night reality TV show, gaining multiple prominent speaking slots, its left wing on key issues, including on Israel, were downplayed as much as possible."

ST. JOHN’S– Unifor Local 597 members at Dominion grocery stores across Newfoundland will begin strike action at 10:01 p.m. Saturday August 22, 2020. 

"Our Dominion members do not take this decision lightly. They would much rather be serving their communities but as frontline workers they felt they could not accept the contract put forth by the company," said Unifor National President Jerry Dias.