Amir Attaran

Amir Attaran: Where provinces fail, Ottawa must step in with minimum standards. To make this easy on the PM, I’ve drafted an emergency order already.

Amir Attaran: Seven promising vaccine candidates are nearing the finish line. Why hasn’t Canada locked down orders for them like our closest allies have?

Amir Attaran: The excuses against mandatory masking are so bad they qualify as comedy. It’s not too late for a national mask plan to prevent a second wave.

Amir Attaran: Canada is mismanaging its most significant peacetime crisis in a century and the seeds of our failure are everywhere. Here are four things that must change.

Amir Attaran: Social distancing is the only option—there is no alternative. Here’s how we might eventually ease back into normal life, in a way that saves lives.

Amir Attaran: There is one legal move that would prompt immediate action—shutting down Canadian airspace to Chinese cargo services

Opinion: If Canada wants to decisively threaten maximum pain and stop the escalating trade war with the U.S., it should propose expropriating pharmaceutical patents