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COVID-19 Myths topping the charts this week
The World Health Organization has called what we’re facing today an “infodemic”: “an over-abundance of information – some accurate and some not – that makes…
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You can’t re-open an economy without workers
Yesterday, the Saskatchewan government revealed its plan to “re-open the Saskatchewan economy.” I will leave critiques about whether the plan adequately addresses testing and the public health…
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Comparing provincial economic responses to COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vital importance of collective responses via governments at all levels. The Canadian context of federalism, with a division of…
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Let’s talk about quarantine privilege
However, contrary to the sentiment of the slogan, the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t a great equalizer. From health care workers fighting on the front line to…
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1.4 million jobless Canadians getting no income support in April
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Can you get reinfected from COVID-19?
I recently heard someone exclaim over a Zoom hang with friends: “People are getting reinfected in South Korea!!!”
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How do we eat the COVID-19 mental health elephant? One bite at a time.
COVID-19 is a traumatic event. Make no mistake, we have not been here before.
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COVID-19 myths topping the charts this week
Rather than being transmitted from aerosol droplets, misinformation travels quickly from social media, to group chats, to Zoom meetings, right to the pulpit from which…
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The hidden and not-so-hidden casualty of COVID-19
Since the province has sensibly decided that “professional and social services that support the legal and justice system” are part of the essential services during…
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The coronavirus crisis: Wake-up call for an economic paradigm shift¹
This article was originally posted on National Newswatch
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COVID-19: How do we make sense of the modelling?
Unfortunately, we don’t have a clear answer to that question right now, and modelling isn’t a crystal ball with the answers inside.
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Mental health, substance use and COVID19: Getting ahead of a perfect storm
What can we expect from the combination of social isolation, sky-high stress, job losses, food and housing insecurity, grief, closures of regular services and supports,…
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