From the newest COVID-19 variant to remembering 9/11, we’ve selected some of the best long reads of the week on thestar.com. Sign up for the Weekend Long Reads newsletter to get them delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. A new COVID-19 variant ‘Mu’ has been detected in Ontario. Debating leaders each go for the throat — and come away bloodiedIt was a debate mosh pit, and no federal political leader walked away without bruises. At a mobile vaccine clinic at their Thorncliffe Park apartment tower Wednesday, a young couple told community workers they’d been worried about long-term side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Source: thestar September 11, 2021 11:03 UTC