Three ways to tackle fear with courage amid COVID-19 pandemic

History has taught us that ignoring our fear or focusing primarily on our negative feelings, can lead to denying the urgency to act, and even to avoiding taking the essential actions to overcome the threat we are facing.
A man, pictured along Wellington Street, wears a mask and gloves as protective measures against COVID-19. Fear informs us to all work together to adapt to the challenges we experience and collectively overcome the threat, writes ISG Senator Stan Kutcher.
With the heightening of the COVID-19 pandemic, all Canadians are living through a great threat to personal and economic health.   As a country, we have not experienced a threat of this magnitude since the Second World War. Lik...

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