Commentary

We were anticipating massive job losses in April. And the recently released Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey (LFS) revealed the carnage was even greater than expected.

Many Canadians are having trouble picturing just what daily life will look like when the COVID-19 pandemic ends. Over the past few weeks, Research Co.

I’d been to the gym late the previous evening and gone into the steam room before taking the rental car to the airport for the red-eye. I would have slept soundly but the person next to me kept sneezing. Probably in the throes of a cold.

In 1897 while in London in the midst of a worldwide speaking tour, American author Mark Twain became the subject of rumours back home that he was dead.

Four and a half years have passed since Justin Trudeau became Canada’s head of government.

We have reached the end of the beginning and hope this is not the beginning of the end. It proved relatively easy to shut down much of the old economy. The new economy will be much more difficult to restart and rebuild.

As most Canadian municipalities begin their eighth week of lockdown, pressure is building for governments to develop plans to restart the economy. Research Co.

It is one of life’s certainties, and taxation is one of the certainties that business grapples with daily across Canada. Another certainty is that tax rates are going to rise.

The effect of COVID-19 on the construction industry remains in the early stages. So far, construction in British Columbia has fared surprisingly well.

Enough already. The first coronavirus case in British Columbia was identified 100 days ago. We have never come close to filling our hospitals with pandemic patients. We have concluded that our seniors’ care standards are a shambles.