It seems as though the federal government is constantly updating Canada s travel rules, so we decided to put together a list of the newest changes to help make your life a little easier. Although the new rules won t impact everyone, it s always good to stay up to date with them. Here are the answers to some questions you may have floating around in your head regarding the newest updates.
The failures of elder care in Canada, as Picard argues, began long before the novel coronavirus arrived.
Readers may be surprised that Picard forgoes lambasting the easy villains in the devastating crisis for-profit care providers, “bad apple” care staff in service of a deeper indictment of Canada’s refusal to value elders in life as well as in death.
Ten months after we first spoke about health reporting, I reached Picard by phone in Vancouver, where he is spending the winter as an Asper Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia.
We discussed the difficulty of writing about people who often can’t speak for themselves, what accountability for these preventable deaths could look like, and how his optimism that the pandemic will be a turning point for elder care has managed to stay alight.