Perhaps it’s become a bit cliché to search for silver linings to the events of this past year—there’s a lot that most of us are in no rush to look back on. But finding those unexpectedly positive developments is also a coping mechanism, especially as the months drag on.
I’ll never forget this particular pandemic memory: It was a midsummer night, and long past bedtime. Exhausted and over it, my husband and I had totally given up on herding our son and daughter inside. Out of boredom, our loosely supervised kids sprawled out in the backyard on their still-damp swimming towels and turned to the sky to stargaze. Soon enough, studying the night sky became their new favourite thing.
Now they’ve memorized the constellations and can spout random facts about Mars, which would never have happened in our previous, over-scheduled lives. As it turns out, moon cycles and meteor showers remain topics of discussion in many other households. When I went to buy a kid-friendly telescope for Christmas, I found out that they’ve been selling out for months.
On top of becoming newbie astronomers, Canadians celebrated plenty of cultural shifts, medical wins and innovations. Of course, you’d be forgiven for missing them if you were entertaining a toddler while helping another kid log on to Zoom, or making the millionth meal of the day. Let’s recap some of the highlights you might have overlooked.
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