Paul Wells: Last year, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer wrote a paper on how to plan for a major outbreak. It didn’t imagine anything as menacing as this coronavirus.
Shannon Gormley: In their view, liberty is the freedom to threaten others. They want to do what they want to do, and they want to do it whenever they want to do it, however they want to do it.
David Moscrop: For now, we can say that Donald Trump is enough of a fascist to raise serious concerns warranting a significant and coordinated response from inside and outside of U.S.
Max Fawcett: Golf, for all of its sins, is a low-risk activity. It may well be the perfect sport for an environment where social distancing remains a necessity.
Andrea Horwath: What we are witnessing is nothing less than a fundamental failure of Canada’s governments, private companies and institutions to ensure seniors’ health and safety, which borders on elderly abuse
In his daily briefing, the PM announced a new emergency financing program for large businesses, insisting ’this is bridge financing, not a blank cheque’