Issues, ethics, memory
Premier Doug Ford fired aal members of the Ontario COVID Science Advisory Table in the summer of 2021. Ford does not want expert advice to get in the way of his blatantly political decision making and short-term thinking.
Some believe that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab. Others insist it was an American lab. But a group of eighteen health scientists says that COVID-19 began in a market in the Chinese city of Huanan, where the virus spread from live animals to humans.
On March 8, 2020, Canada reported its first death from COVID-19. On March 11, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. Like many people, we had heard increasingly disturbing news, but it did not seem quite real. Declaration of the pandemic got our attention. Two months later, I looked back to see how the pandemic shifted from far away news to something that changed our lives.
Pulpit and Politics 