Is it time for Dr. Fauci to quit?
Brazil’s health minister, Luiz Mandetta, was fired last Friday for criticizing the country’s mini-Trump, Jair Bolsonaro. Like Trump, President Bolsonaro needs a booming economy in order to be re-elected, and denies the threat from coronavirus because shutdowns hurt the economy. Mandetta did what he could to control the berserker president, but eventually called Bolsonaro out […]
Indefinite lockdown can’t be the only remedy for combatting coronavirus
Many countries across the world are in some degree of lockdown in a bid to curb the spread of COVID-19. The world now faces an uphill battle as people don’t know much about this virus and how deadly or widespread this disease will be. It’s very hard to predict. Lockdown is curbing the spread of […]
We should have a federal pandemic body
The federal government, the provinces, and the municipalities have been putting a wartime-like effort into preventing the spread of the coronavirus ever since the World Health Organization officially declared it a global pandemic on March 11. Canada is on lockdown, and so far, the federal government has spent, loaned, and deferred $262-billion to help people […]
No evidence to back WHO director general’s accusations against Taiwan
OTTAWA—The pattern surrounding the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Beijing party-state’s ongoing influence over it continues. Taiwan, a nation that has shown impressive success in combatting the COVID-19 virus despite its exclusion from WHO, is now accused of racism by the organization’s director general. WHO Director General Tedros A. Ghebreyesus—an Ethiopian microbiologist and the […]
Canada’s dirty little secret is now out in the open
OTTAWA—Canada’s dirty little secret is now out in the open. While we all claim respect and reverence for seniors, when the time comes, they often find themselves in substandard conditions with little recourse or options. The number of COVID-19 deaths in institutions is a clear signal that we need to revisit the deficiency of end-of-life […]
Senate’s new COVID-19 oversight committees should leave rough stuff for the House, say Senators, ‘they’ll take a little bit more of a bloodless view’
Two Senate committees just assigned to monitor the government’s response to COVID-19 should leave partisanship at the door, and cut the government some slack as it stickhandles the country’s biggest crisis since World War II, say some of the Senators involved in shaping those committees. Two Senate leaders and another Senator tapped to serve on […]
Senators laud performance of public service amidst pandemic, and Harder calls for greater ‘risk taking and innovation’ by bureaucrats
As Canadians now enter the second month of self-isolation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal public service is winning accolades for its efforts to help citizens while the fast-changing crisis has strained the civil service’s front-line capacity. Lori MacDonald, senior associate deputy minister of employment and social development and chief operating officer for Service Canada, […]
Why we need race-based data on COVID-19
OTTAWA—With more than 30,000 Canadians tested or presumed to have COVID-19, we are facing a health crisis like no other. This crisis will also shine a light on a number of weaknesses and inequities in our society, some of which are delineated along racial lines. Twenty-nine states in the U.S. released a mix COVID-19 data […]
COVID-19 crisis offers hope for a clean energy transition
WATERLOO, ONT.—Although the final pages on the unfolding human tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic have yet to be written, the ‘tsunami-scale’ of economic disruption has led to responses by the federal and provincial governments that the most acclaimed of futurists could not have predicted even six weeks ago. If the adage, ‘Do not let a […]
Next federal election a referendum on Trudeau’s management of COVID-19, say pollsters, ‘a crisis like no other’
With the country deep in the throes of a deadly global pandemic, veteran pollsters are predicting that the next federal election will be a referendum on how Justin Trudeau’s minority government managed COVID-19 and its impact on Canadians after this global crisis is over. “We won’t know until the very end how much damage this […]
