Coronavirus

’A lot of good things are going to happen,’ said the U.S. president as the number of COVID-19 cases in his country approached 1,000, and the death toll reached 29

The unsung heroes of the battle against COVID-19 work gruelling hours while placing themselves in danger. Then they’re forced to isolation and—in some cases—shunned.

Like the coronavirus, fear is contagious, and it’s leading shoppers to do some crazy things

The Jason Kenney government planned for sagging oil prices, not a full market meltdown. Will the premier now go cap-in-hand to Ottawa?

As the stock market crashes and oil prices plunge, experts agree fiscal stimulus is needed, but differ on how big it should be and what form it should take

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.

An Ottawa hospital has opened the country’s first drive-through test site, but the Prime Minister won’t get a test for COVID-19 until his doctors tell him to. The worldwide death toll has now surpassed 5,000.

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.

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.