Waiting to exhale

That 'not this again' feeling is hard to shake off, given the one thing COVID-19 has been is unpredictable. Just when you think you have turned a corner, it finds a way to rain on the parade like some atmospheric river.

According to medical experts, it is likely going to be weeks until we know what the omicron variant of COVID-19 will mean in terms of impact on our national and global health systems, writes Tim Powers. Unsplash photograph by Parastoo Maleki

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

December 1, 2021

OTTAWA—Didn’t it feel like a gut punch last week when news broke about the omicron variant of COVID-19 circulating globally? While there is no evidence to date to suggest this will significantly alter timelines for our return to some sort of normal, the initial stories did raise the collective a...

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