Sparkles in the Park returns to Guelph's Riverside Park Saturday night, there's carol singing at a brewery plus many craft and artisan markets for those not-quite-but-almost last minute gifts.
Staffing shortages and turnover have been problems in early education for years, but the pandemic took those issues from bad to worse. The child care workforce in Massachusetts is now 12% smaller than it was before the pandemic.
Laura McCran-McDermott is a social worker at St. Mary's General Hospital in Kitchener. When she saw how another wave of the pandemic was impacting her colleagues back in December, she asked her son's school if they could do anything to brighten spirits. They responded with a message of resilience.