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  1. New COVID spending may do more harm than good

    Several businesses, particularly in the service industry, are struggling to find workers. ...

  2. Ontario government has made COVID economic pain even worse

    The Greenbelt Act helped drive up residential housing prices in the Greater Toronto Area. ...

  3. Canada should improve access to pharmaceuticals in post-COVID world

    Drugs were approved in the U.S. 469 days earlier (on average) than in Canada. ...

  4. Ottawa should wind down massive COVID subsidies to businesses

    The program's total budgeted costs for 2020/21 and 2021/22 now stand at $110.6 billion. ...

  5. Wait times—the other health-care crisis

    The elective surgery queue cost 1.2 million Canadians a total of $2.8 billion in lost wages and productivity. ...

  6. Canada’s vaccine rollout continues to lag

    If Moderna had been allowed to sell its vaccines earlier, many Canadian death and illnesses may have been prevented. ...

  7. Canada’s COVID response requires more imagination and innovation

    Protracted lockdowns slowly strangle the economic and social life of the country. ...

  8. B.C. makes progress on surgery backlog—but serious challenges remain

    The pandemic has impacted British Columbia’s health-care system in many ways. Like many provincial governments, the Horgan government postponed surgeries—specifically, more than 30,000 “ non-urgent ” scheduled surgeries between March 16 ...

  9. Trudeau government wage subsidy program likely not worth the price tag

    To state the obvious, the Trudeau government’s response to COVID-19 (and the resulting recession) has been expensive. Ottawa forecasts a federal budget deficit of at least $381.6 billion this year, primarily due to the response. What’s ...

  10. Despite spending hundreds of billions during COVID, we seem to have little to show for it

    As the pandemic moves into 2021, it’s important to reflect on how Canada is dealing with its impact. After a summer that included a semblance of normality, the fall and winter have brought a resurgence that’s taxing our ability to cope. ...