Policy for Pandemics
As various professional leagues try to restart, some familiar socioeconomic divisions are revealing themselves, with important lessons for the general economic reopening
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Tempting as it is to blame Donald Trump for America's pandemic disaster, plenty of experts thought the coronavirus would turn out to be no big deal. Bl…
Andrew Potter
Jun 30
With over 600 COVID-19 cases and three dead workers in southwestern Ontario's agricultural sector, the one thing you can't say is that officials weren'…
Andrew Potter
Jun 23
Countries, like people, do some things well and some things not so well. One thing we have lost is the command and control capacity to do test and trac…
Andrew Potter
Jun 15
Judgements about status are embedded in almost everything aspect of the news. To read the news is to be insulted -- which is why people are fleeing the…
Andrew Potter
Jun 9
Canadians have an uneasy relationship with their armed forces, but it turns out that some of the military's virtues come in handy during a pandemic
Andrew Potter
Jun 5
COVID-19 might indeed be an "extinction event" for newsrooms, but the pandemic doesn't change the fact that every plan to save legacy media is terribly…
Andrew Potter
Jun 1
With free internet, plenty of food and booze, and lattes delivered by the RAAF, our correspondent wonders if we'll find restrictions on civil liberties…
May 28
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