Managing Change Amid a Pandemic

As the world has learned from previous crises, society’s responses to catastrophe can range from adaptation to innovation to over-correction. In Canada, so far, our governments have managed the pandemic response as well as could be expected given the uncertainty involved. But what can we learn about how to make Canada better as we move from crisis to aftermath?

The COVID-19 tsunami is far from over. But even as lives are still being cut short and families are reeling, we must start looking for lessons from this disaster.

Crises remake societies. The Great Depression led to the New Deal and taught a generation about frugality. The Second World War ended American isolationism and led to seven decades of international collaboration and institution-building. The events of September 11, 2001 destroyed old assumptions of international security and diplomacy and refashioned how

Daryan Shamkhali, Unsplash photo Downtown Toronto, heart of the Canadian business community, which is essential to leading the country out of the deepest recession since the Great Depression.