Opinion

Timothy Sly: Herd immunity would be well under way when 54 to 61 per cent of the Canadian population is immune. So far, immunity within the Canadian population is estimated at 1.1 per cent.

Scott Gilmore: Before, I never thought twice about clicking to Amazon. Now, I click to a local business—the kind of place that sustains our communities.

Frank Graves and Michael Valpy: When it comes to who is feeling hopeless during COVID-19, it’s ’decimal-point dust’ for the well-off and despair for the rest

Andray Domise: The forced use of digital technologies—Slack, Microsoft Teams and Zoom—to mediate our relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to provide a boon to companies who have been known to never let a good crisis go to waste

Corey Mintz: The closure of local, neighbourhood-focused, independently owned restaurants is going to leave a hole in our lives

J.L. Granatstein: ’The Dutch remember. They teach their children about the war in their schools. On Christmas Eve every year the children of Holten go to the Canadian cemetery to light a candle on each grave to make the point that freedom had—and still has—a price.’

Andrew MacDougall: The Prime Minister’s greatest asset is his ability to connect with people, and it’s been missing in his responses to the pandemic

As we look towards a post-coronavirus world, we must seek accountability for the human toll and economic devastation that this virus has wrought

Guidance around outdoor exercise has principally been for adults while children’s need for outdoor activity seems to have been neglected altogether 

Tabatha Southey: I’d like to try and explain all of this bread-baking to the 35 people in North America who don’t feel the knead