Commentary

It’s a tricky business being a middling power geographically situated between two large powers. For Canada, its business focus has been the larger traditionally friendly power to its south.

As health-care workers continue to treat cases of COVID-19, some government officials around the world have started to look at the calendar in an attempt to establish a date for loosening social distancing guidelines and re-opening stores and restaur

These are the best and worst of times to be in journalism. Never in memory has our work been so necessary for public health. Never has it been so important that it be accurate and trustworthy.

Canadians have become accustomed to robust home-price appreciation in recent years, notably in southern regions of Ontario and British Columbia. Things look far less certain these days, thanks largely to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the one hand, I don’t think anyone would want to be mayor right now. On the other hand, I wish the fellow who was elected would. We seem to have Mayor Kennedy Worrywart on our hands.

When nearly all Canadians go back to a workweek that resembles the ones we enjoyed before the COVID-19 outbreak, the experiences of employees who have been required to fulfil their duties from home will play a key role in the development of office sp

It might soon be time, but not before. . . The reopening of the economy will need to come in baby steps, even if the Easter weekend probably made many feel we can take larger strides.

Here’s another economics lesson from COVID-19’s school of hard knocks. File it under dangerous debt accumulation.

As Canadians continue to wonder when social distancing guidelines will be loosened, the level of satisfaction with the way various levels of government have dealt with the COVID-19 outbreak remains high.

For as long as I’ve lived – and these days, it feels like a very long time – America has been an object of our envy and our smugness in Canada. It’s in so many ways the greatest country, if one step short of exceptionalism.