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Timothy Sly: We have to face the possibility that once coronavirus has spread within the community, the rate and scope of that spread is uncontrollable

Shannon Gormley: This new coronavirus has benefited from dictatorships’ aversion to accurate information. Will dictators’ lies, the lifeblood of their regimes, also be the end of them?

Andrew Cash: The Ontario Labour Relations Board decision throws into question the status of workers on all platforms: Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, and more. And it opens a huge opportunity for the labour movement.

Left in the hands of Mexico’s aging campesinos, ancestral corn is at risk of becoming extinct. And that leaves not only a culinary hole, but one in the planet’s biodiversity.

Timothy Sly: We can pay tribute to the pandemic planning of the early 2000s, without which we might not have been able to contain the cases of COVID-19 that have arrived in Canada so far. But the odds are stacked against this scenario remaining unblemished.

Letters to the editor, March 3, 2020: Readers weigh in on the new generational blame game, the quandary of equalization reform and the end of capitalism

"She said she wanted to die... it seemed to me an irrational, impulsive wish"

Timothy Sly: We don’t know if COVID-19 will slow during the summer months. If it does, be ready for at least a second wave in the fall, following the path of the 1918 influenza and the 2009 influenza.

Ian King: An angry and alienated working class is not good news for anyone; it’s fertile ground for opportunistic populists to exploit and turn Canadians against each other

Ken Boessenkool: The 905 presents a massive opportunity for the Conservative Party, if they can come up with a climate plan that reels in accessible voters