Jason Kirby

is an editorat-large at Maclean’s and a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail Report on Business and The Financial Times. He began his journalism career two decades ago at Canadian Business magazine and has spent the last decade as a feature writer and economics editor. In his first assignment for Zoomer, he looks at the financial fallout from the COVID-19 lockdown, with all bets on a pandemic-induced recession, in “The Great Meltdown”