Opinion

Scott Gilmore: For decades, Canada’s foreign and economic policy has been based on keeping the border open. Coronavirus changes everything.

David Zarnett: Coronavirus poses a threat that comes from other humans, which makes it more psychologically legible than climate change

Benjamin Perrin: The Alberta government’s recent review of supervised consumption sites ignores over 100 peer-reviewed studies explaining their benefits

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

Max Fawcett: The environment wouldn’t be a winner in a prolonged price war between Saudi Arabia, Russia and North America

Scott Gilmore: The markets are tanking, there is a global public health crisis. It’s not the end of the world, it just feels that way.

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?

Tabatha Southey: As a near-pandemic spreads around the world, please wash your hands. And don’t touch your face. That won’t be easy. But, remember, wash your hands.

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.

Stephen Maher: Jason Kenney’s endorsement of Erin O’Toole is unusual, but could also deliver a powerful boost to a campaign already on the upswing