Canadians have been very supportive of the new normal, but enough is enough

The time has come to move as a herd.

Master Cpl. Véronique Blouin-Lepage, who is a dental technician with the Valcartier Detachment, pictured on May 19, 2020, helps a resident at the Centre d'hébergement Nazaire-Piché during Operation Laser in Montreal. With the high ratio of deaths in vulnerable populations, it is shameful that we need the military to expose germ-infested, understaffed conditions in health facilities, writes Sheila Copps. Photograph courtesy of DND/ Aviator Zamir Muminiar

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

June 1, 2020

OTTAWA—Surgical sterility is great for an operating room. But it does not work in the real world. The notion that after almost three months in lockdown people are expected to either stay home or go to places where they are not allowed to sit down for fear of transmitting COVID is unworkable. In ...

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