Creativity in crisis

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The COVID19 pandemic is moving quickly, as is the news and information around it. That’s why our team on the 2020 Network is focused on giving you some balanced perspective on the story as it develops.

On this episode of the 2020 Network, host Jodi Butts speaks with Shelly Ambrose, the Executive Director and Publisher of The Walrus, about the impact of COVID19 on the arts and cultural community.


Tracking, tracing & privacy in a pandemic

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The COVID19 pandemic is moving quickly, as is the news and information around it. That’s why our team on the 2020 Network is focused on giving you some balanced perspective on the story as it develops.

On this episode of the 2020 Network, host Jodi Butts speaks with Shuman Ghosemajumder, CTO at Shape Security, about how COVID-19 is influencing our thinking about data privacy, security and our online indentities.

Shuman Ghosemajumder is the co-founder of the Privacy Council at Google, the co-author of CGI Programming Unleashed, a contributing author to Crimeware, and a regular guest lecturer at Stanford.

Open to Debate: Can we protect our identity online?

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The coronavirus pandemic continues. So does lockdown. Before the crisis, many of us used the internet for our day-to-day and month-to-month tasks. During the crisis, more of these tasks will be online. No doubt, that will continue in the future — and change too. But we must be able to trust this digital identity: trust that it is safe and reliable, that it doesn’t lead to a further commodification of ourselves, and that its proceeds returned, at least in part, to the consumer.

The question, then, is ‘Can we protect our identity online?’ On this episode of Open to Debate, David Moscrop talks with Debbie Gamble, Chief Officer, Innovation Labs and New Ventures, Interac, about just that.


Supporting our kids through COVID-19

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The COVID19 pandemic is moving quickly, as is the news and information around it. That’s why our team on the 2020 Network is focused on giving you some balanced perspective on the story as it develops.

On this episode of the 2020 Network, host Jodi Butts speaks with Dr. Mario Cappelli, senior clinician-scientist, Ontario centre of excellence for child & youth mental health; clinical investigator CHEO RI, adjunct professor of psychology, psychiatry University of Ottawa- about how we can support our children’s social, emotional and mental health during this pandemic

Supporting seniors through COVID-19

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The COVID19 pandemic is moving quickly, as is the news and information around it. That’s why our team on the 2020 Network is focused on giving you some balanced perspective on the story as it develops.


On this episode of the 2020 Network, host Jodi Butts speaks with Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the National Institute on Ageing at Ryerson University, and Director of geriatrics at Mount Sinai and the University Health Network in Toronto about how to help seniors get through the COVID-19 pandemic.

The social determinants of health and COVID-19

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The COVID19 pandemic is moving quickly, as is the news and information around it. That’s why our team on the 2020 Network is focused on giving you some balanced perspective on the story as it develops.

On this episode of the 2020 Network, host Jodi Butts speaks with Dr. Kwame McKenzie, CEO of the Wellesley Institute, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Director of Health and Equity at the Centre of Addiction and Mental Health to discuss the social determinants of health and COVID-19.

Canada’s Legal System during COVID-19

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The COVID19 pandemic is moving quickly, as is the news and information around it. That’s why our team on the 2020 Network is focused on giving you some balanced perspective on the story as it develops.

On this episode of the 2020 Network, host Jodi Butts speaks with Vivene Salmon, President of the Canadian Bar Association, about the impacts of COVID-19 on Canada’s legal system.

Open to Debate: What can caremongering do for us – and what can’t it?

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As the coronarvius pandemic continues, a mutual aid movement known as ‘caremongering’ has emerged in Canada. The endeavour is encouraging and welcome, but it isn’t new. Mutual aid and solidarity have long been practiced, especially in racialized, disabled, and Indigenous communities. On this episode of Open to Debate, David Moscrop talks with international development scholar Yvonne Su about the history, possibilities, and limits of caremongering.

COVID and the global food industry, with Sylvain Charlebois

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The COVID19 pandemic is moving quickly, as is the news and information around it. That’s why our team on the 2020 Network is focused on giving you some balanced perspective on the story as it develops.

On this episode of the 2020 Network, host Jodi Butts speaks with Sylvain Charlebois, professor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie Univeristy in Halifax, about the impact of COVID-19 on the global food industry.