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Tag: Emergency planning
Our pandemic response seems like a guessing game
Reading Time: 6 minutes From suspect modelling to poor stockpiling to a lack of perspective on historic events, we failed to be ready for COVID-19
U of A wildfire expert to head up national research network
Reading Time: 3 minutes New $5-million federal investment will bring together top wildfire scientists to help manage ecosystems, protect communities
Want to pay for medical supplies? Stop funding CBC
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our health-care budgets were already greatly strained before the COVID-19 crisis; they’re completely blown out now
Canada’s PPE missteps endangered its citizens
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada has the raw materials and the industry to ensure its health system is prepared for the next big pandemic
Four strategies to help avoid the next pandemic
Reading Time: 5 minutes Virus expert offers recommendations that would be easier to implement and enforce than other public health measures
Abject failure in U.S., India in face of COVID-19 crisis
Reading Time: 5 minutes India has failed its citizens, especially the vulnerable. The U.S. has hobbled from one makeshift policy fiasco to another
How Canada can confront future pandemics
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our leaders should have ways to handle a public health disaster without throwing half the population into penury
Federal government failed to prepare for pandemic
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s a difference between what Ottawa says about its preparedness and the reality. The results in the face of COVID-19 could be tragic
Ten key messages to navigating a crisis
Reading Time: 7 minutes How can we draw on the work of futurists and foresight professionals to enhance our responses to the current crisis and increase resilience against future shocks?