Andre De Grasse, Nardwuar among 80 new appointments to the Order of Canada

In my first year of high school, all of my friends lived in my phone. It was the first full school year affected by COVID-19, which meant we were at school in person one day—only taking one four-hour class while we were there—and online again the next. I’d been swept into a friend group practically by accident through class group chats or face-masked icebreakers, and once we’d formed our little group, we stuck together like it was life or death. We texted constantly: while our cameras were off in school Google Meets, as we sat two metres apart in socially distanced classrooms, and in the...