A thoughtful, well-managed and balanced system for contact tracing is essential for preserving our core values of privacy, freedom, equity and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. The system must...
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed fragilities and inequities in Canada’s innovation economy. When the pandemic began, Canada was already a global laggard in the development and adoption of new...
À l’émission Tout le monde en parle du 17 mai dernier, Yoshua Bengio, directeur scientifique de Mila et professeur au Département d’informatique de l’Université de Montréal, et Valérie Pisano,...
Over the past several days, in the midst of the protests related to the killing of George Floyd and death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto, many people have asked...
During the dark days of the 2008-09 financial crisis, one of Canada’s top CEOs was a guest on the business television program I hosted at what’s now BNN Bloomberg....
The coronavirus has exploded into a global health risk not seen in a century. By early May, more than 3.8 million people in at least 187 countries and territories...
Back in the 1970s, a feisty New Zealand legislator named Marilyn Waring made headlines around the world. Her election campaigns were magnets for energetic local volunteers in a mostly...
Like colleagues across the higher education sector, I spent a hectic 72 hours in mid-March, transitioning a well-honed teaching plan based on in-person interactions into the largely uncharted territory...
The pandemic is political. While COVID-19 is essentially a public health crisis with massive economic effects, political decisions facilitated the spread of the virus, and politics guides how governments...
Family physicians are trained to ask patients how their social circumstances affect their health. For our more socially vulnerable patients, one of the questions we now find ourselves asking...
