Murray Wood: Western separation talk borders on the absurd
Western separation isn't new, as Murray Wood reminds us. From fringe parties in the 1980s to bizarre border ideas today,...
8:30 – How bad is COVID-19 expected to get in Canada? We don’t know, despite the data being collected and analyzed at multiple levels of government. According to National Post columnist Matt Gurney, “showing Canadians how many patients are in hospitals, how many need an ICU bed and how many specifically need a ventilator should not be particularly difficult.” Some provincial governments, including Saskatchewan and Ontario, have promised to release their modeling data, but the federal government still hasn’t shared national projections on how far the virus may spread in Canada and how long it will be before we get back to normal.
LIVE: Matt Gurney, columnist and editor for the National Post.
9:15 – Prime Minister Trudeau’s daily update on COVID-19 [LIVE COVERAGE]
9:30 WTF:
LIVE: Lise Gasmo, Socialite Media.
LIVE: Tenille Lafontaine, Feisty, Frugal & Fabulous.
11:00 – While many are calling for a near-total shutdown of non-essential business during the COVID-19 pandemic, businessman Rob Wildeboer says we need to strike a careful balance to ensure that measures taken today don’t lead to devastating consequences in the future. Wildeboer says we need to do a cost-benefit analysis using facts to ensure we fight the pandemic properly without doing massive damage to our economy. Wildeboer joins Gormley to discuss striking a balance between the disease and the cure.
LIVE: Rob Wildeboer, executive chairman and co-founder of Martinrea International, a global auto parts supplier, and former chairman of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
