Ford plays a nasty Halloween trick on kids in COVID hotspots
It was easy to get the impression that Doug Ford wasn’t at all happy on Monday about being cast as the premier who stole Halloween.
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What more is needed for the Ford government to do the right thing on...
Back in May, Premier Doug Ford said Ontario couldn’t conduct a proper public inquiry into the crisis state of long-term care and the tragic COVID-19 deaths of vulnerable seniors because we couldn’t...
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To build trust, the Ford government needs to be more transparent about its...
The rules for living in a pandemic world change often and dramatically. White becomes black, acceptable becomes unacceptable and so on.
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Grocery giants should stop putting the screws to suppliers and play fair
It takes a complex system of growing, production and distribution to get fresh food and packaged goods from all manner of places to grocery store shelves.
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Ontario has failed to deliver on its flu shot promises
How could Ontario possibly have got this one wrong?
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Ontario risks a crisis of confidence in how it’s handling the pandemic
Public trust is one of the key ingredients for a successful fight against the pandemic. And right now, Ontario risks a serious crisis of confidence in how it’s handling the battle.
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Governments must make sure everything’s in place for a COVID-19 vaccine
If ever there was a time for a glimmer of hope on the pandemic front, this would be it.
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Governments are sending mixed messages on COVID-19, at the worst possible time
When it comes to the pandemic, there are exactly two things that Toronto, Ontario and Ottawa seem to completely agree on. The first is that COVID-19 numbers are going in the wrong direction.
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Ontario’s COVID-19 trajectory is much worse than anyone expected
On the day Ontario’s COVID-19 numbers hit yet another all-time high and new modelling shows we’re well on our way to 6,500 cases a day by mid-December, Premier Doug Ford was happily talking about ship...
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COVID crisis in Peel exposes the cracks in the system
Back in September, when it looked like COVID-19 was more or less under control, Peel Region made what seemed like a common-sense request to Ottawa.
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Care, not profit, must come first in long-term-care homes
Running a long-term-care home in Ontario is an attractive enough business that private equity funds are being set up to invest in the opportunity.
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Failures on test-and-trace undermine the goal of #COVIDZero
The L-word — as in lockdown — is back. Premier Doug Ford is hinting strongly at something along those lines for the COVID-19 hotspots of Toronto, Peel and York regions. And a group of doctors are...
View ArticleCelebrate the immigrant success story behind COVID vaccine
In Yaa Gyasi's splendid new novel, Transcendent Kingdom, the protagonist, Gifty, is a PhD candidate at Stanford University studying the neural circuits of reward-seeking behaviour. Her lab-mate, Han,...
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Paid sick days are essential to keep workers safe and fight COVID-19
Stay home if you’re sick.
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Pierre Poilievre is flirting with the far right by pushing ‘Great Reset’...
There's no shortage of things to worry about as we lock down once again to stem the second wave of COVID-19: our health, our jobs, our future.
View ArticleGovernments can’t afford to come up short on COVID-19 vaccines
If things go according to plan, Canadians should very soon start to see pictures of people getting what everyone wants most this year — a vaccination shot to protect them against COVID-19.
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If ever there was year to ‘shop local,’ this is it
Local, independent businesses are the heartbeat of every community. And right now, in many parts of the country, they’ve never had to struggle so hard just to survive.
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Chrystia Freeland’s mini-budget shows she can play both offence and defence
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s economic update — mini-budget, really — shows that she can play offence and defence at the same time.
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Ontario needs a better test-and-trace plan to find out what’s happening in...
Ontario's schools are, for the most part, one of the few bright lights in the COVID crisis.
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Under cover of COVID, world is going backward on climate change
We may have largely forgotten about climate change in this pandemic year. But climate change hasn't forgotten about us.
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