From COVID’s disproportionate effect on working women to a vaccine-hesitant mom’s change of heart, 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. Over the past 16 months, Girotti has tried a whole series of pivots — “God, I hate that word” — to save what she had built. Canada’s next top model: Little Canada. In Little Canada, Jean Louis Brenninkmeijer has tried the impossible — representing the entire country in miniature in a 45,000 square-foot former GoodLife Fitness at Yonge and Dundas.

Source: thestar July 31, 2021 10:52 UTC