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Breathing underwater

As Halifax’s kids return to school this month, are they ready for the new normal? Are we?  The question will dog people for years, even generations, to come: Where were you when the pandemic hit?  Like the rest of us, Coady Monk has a story. “We didn’t know what COVID was back in March 2020,” […]

By Alec Bruce 1 September 2021 Share this story


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