Opinion

Letters to the editor, March 27, 2020: Readers weigh in on our cover that paid tribute to Flight 752’s victims, the fight for Western independence and a mail-hoarding postal worker in Japan

Andrew MacDougall: While the world is shutting down to fight a pandemic, why is Peter MacKay plowing ahead with his Conservative leadership bid?

Jen Gerson: Threatening to take away civil liberties isn’t enough. Mobilizing the country will require a galvanizing message—and the promise of better things to come.

Sydney Loney was diagnosed with breast cancer in January. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, her scheduled mastectomy was cancelled, and she doesn’t know how her cancer has progressed.

Heather O’Neill: Throughout history, art was created during pandemics—to amuse, to console, and to give voice to those who were previously unheard

"The protections and measures now being rolled out so swiftly could have been in place long ago; this would have inoculated more people against the worst potential outcomes."

Adnan R. Khan: Provinces are having to crack down dramatically to get people off the streets. Can our free societies meet the challenge of coronavirus?

Jane Philpott describes her first few shifts working on the COVID-19 front lines at Markham Stouffville Hospital

Marcus Kolga: By wrapping themselves in ethno-nationalist rhetoric, the Chinese Communist Party often claims that a critique of their actions is equivalent to a critique of their people—a tried and true tactic in the authoritarian playbook

Cathy Crowe: After a homeless person in Toronto tested positive for coronavirus, the government needs to realize that ’self-isolation’ for this population is a cruel oxymoron