Are we letting this crisis go to waste?

The Black Death in Europe in the mid-1300s created the conditions for the Renaissance. We have the opportunity to use this crisis to create our own rebirth. We can build back better.

As Arundhati Roy has written in her new essay, 'The Pandemic is a Portal,' the pandemic is a chance to imagine the world anew. 'It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it,' writes Sarah Kaplan. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY Sarah Kaplan

August 17, 2020

TORONTO—We are in the midst of one of the greatest health and economic crises in more than a century. Policy-makers and business leaders are struggling to figure out how we can get the economy back on track while at the same time keeping people safe. We all are wishing we could “get back to norm...

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