The COVID-19 pandemic massively disrupted higher education, with online classes and student life replacing throngs of young people packing into lecture halls and dorm residences. Still, Kira Talent, which helps schools choose who to invite into their faculties, has stayed busy.

Young people in Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood have been teaching their elders as part of the Youth Empowering Parents program for a decade now, but the pandemic has forced a few changes.

Sharmarke Dubow is a former refugee who fled Somalia when conflict over resource shortages led to civil war. He is now an elected city councillor working for the people of Victoria, B.C.

In 'Heart of the Coast: Biodiversity and Resilience on the Pacific Edge,' Tyee Bridge explains how sea otters, urchins and starfish each have a role to play in fragile kelp-bed ecosystems.