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Investors breathed a sigh of relief as they turned over their calendars at the end of 2020. Few were sorry to see the back of a turbulent year that drove nation after nation to their worst economic contractions in generations: over the course of 2020, the U.S. gross domestic product shrank around 3.5 per cent, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the U.S., but still fared slightly better than Canada where Statistics Canada estimated GDP shrank by just over 5 per cent and the U.K., which suffered an eye-watering 9.9 per cent drop in GDP, according to the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics. ....
Benefits Canada lands in your real or virtual mailbox, our long-time editor, Jennifer Paterson, will be back from her maternity leave ( Ed note: she returned on May 3) and I’ll be done my short stint as interim editor and returning to my role as managing editor. Wrapping up my tenure as editor with a story that involves tequila and a mechanical bull feels, well, like a whole bowl of right. That story highlights how even physiotherapists have gone virtual during the coronavirus crisis. Getting treatment for a physical ailment like an injured shoulder seems like something that can only be done in person. Not so, says Mike McClenahan. Back in 2018, the then-managing partner of Benefits by Design Inc., was skeptical at first but opting for virtual physiotherapy care had its advantages. “When you go to a bricks-and-mortar physiotherapist, what’s the first thing they ask you? [It’s] ‘Have you been doing your exercises?’ If you’re like me, the answer is, ‘Sort o ....