Canada has had significant vaccine uptake; but even so the Delta variant continues to present serious challenges. So how far are we from the end of the pandemic? We hear from Globe and Mail health columnist Andre Picard; The battle to save two heritage homes in Sandbanks Provincial Park in Prince Edward County was lost. Liz Driver from Save Heritage Sandbanks Homes explains why many residents wanted to see the buildings preserved; Kingston issued a new emergency order to curb parties in the university district following the huge gatherings during orientation week and a rise in COVID cases. We get a student perspective of life on campus and around town from Alyth Roos of the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society at Queen's University; It's the end of summer. It's also wasp season. We find out more about the bugs from Tom Onuferko at the Canadian Museum of Nature; Laura Stephenson. teaches political science at Western University in London and is a director of the Consortium on Electoral Democracy. She talks about voter turnout and how conditions created by the pandemic will complicate things for voters; Our Haydn Watters profiles some university students who are also candidates in the federal election.