Canadians are staring into a debt abyss

 by Greg MacDougall and Steve Saunders of Government Analytics While Covid-19 hit the Canadian economy like a sledgehammer last March, its impact can now be likened to that of a slow motion 1998 Ottawa Ice Storm or 2013 Calgary flood; it’s not simply a phase of the business cycle or

Punishing the radical right in America — Cauterizing the radical right

 by Howard Adelman Just over fifty years ago, in October 1970 (in what became known as the Crise d’octobre or the October Crisis), Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act. It was the first peaceful use of that Draconian measure. It set aside the civil liberties of all

Could the collision course of school reopening and pandemic second wave have been avoided

 By Liz Stuart, President of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association The Ford government had six months to prepare for the reopening of schools and just as much time in the lead-up to the second wave of COVID-19. While families across Ontario bought time for infectious disease and public health

Return to school and strategies for dealing with stress

 Question: Dear Adele, Dr. Michael Silverman reported an incident in which his 5½-year-old son told him that Spiderman had died of Covid-19. A story such as this, is proof that anxiety and fear is running high in our children with obvious concerns about the pandemic. We are wondering how to dial

Permanent, affordable housing is needed to protect Ottawa’s homeless

 Above: Peter Tilley, CEO of the Ottawa Mission Towards the end of 2019, the Ottawa Mission was having difficulties sheltering all the homeless people under its roof, despite having recently expanded their housing department. Now, both the number of meals being served per day and the number of people staying

China and Canada are working together to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic

 ​​​ By Cong Peiwu, Chinese Ambassador to Canada The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global crisis, and it does not respect borders or races. Only with solidarity can the international community defeat this pandemic. China and Canada have a long tradition of supporting each other in trying times. Faced with

8 myths and rumors about the COVID-19 epidemic and China

 Editor’s note: As countries the world over grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been much misinformation surrounding public discourse about the origin and transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Conspiracy theories have been widely circulating on social media and in some established media to support a discredited conspiracy theory that an