The 2020 Network

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 Dan Gardner about how we cope with the uncertainty and unpredictability of this pandemic, and what we are all working towards. Dan Ga...

Since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, observers have been talking about the “egalitarian” nature of the virus. ‘Covid-19 doesn’t discriminate’ has been a common refrain. But while the virus itself may have common effects across populations, the pandemic and its consequences are far from equally shared. As with many public health challenges, the effects and costs of the pandemic are distri...

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, host Jodi Butts speaks with Jaykumar Menon, international human rights lawyer and founder of the Open Source Pharma Foundation about whether now is the time to experiment with devel...

Around the world, Black Lives Matter and their allies - are demanding justice -- and structural change -- in response to years upon years of racist violence, marginalization, and repression. In many instances, activists are being met with further state violence at the hands of police and resistance from elected representatives and officials. Despite state intransigence, one of the core demands gai...

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 Nelson Saddler, second year medical student at the University of Toronto, and member of the Black Medical Students’ Association at Uo...

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. In part 2 of this special 2-part conversation on the future of work post COVID19, host Jodi Butts speaks with Pedro Barata, Executive Director at the Future Skills Centre to discuss the skills that...

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. In part 1 of this special 2-part conversation on the future of work post COVID19, host Jodi Butts speaks with Brittany Forsyth, Chief Talent Officer at Shopify about Shopify’s decision to shift to a...

Humankind is facing an extraordinary threat. No, not that threat. The other one. Climate change. And we are running out of time to develop and implement solutions to meet the challenge -- or, at least, to mitigate the worst of what’s coming. Tackling the climate crisis requires radical change, including adaptations to -- or perhaps upheavals of -- the social, political, and economic systems that h...

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 Ben Rhodes on the state of America in midst of a pandemic. Ben Rhodes is the author of the New York Times bestseller The World As It...

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 Michele McKenzie, principal of McKenzie Strategies about tourism in the time of COVID-19.

As of May 18th, 2020 there are more than 1.52 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States of America. While 280,000 people have recovered from the virus, 90,000 have died -- the most of any country in the world. The American response to the pandemic has been criticized, appropriately, by just about everyone who is paying attention. And life in the time COVID-19 has just begun, which m...

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 Julie Drury, the Strategic Lead, Patient Partnerships at the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement about why family care pro...

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. Sacha Bhatia about the redesign process of the health care system, and what it could look like in the long term in and beyond COV...

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. Alan Drummond about gun regulation as a public health issue. Dr. Drummond is an emergency doctor in Perth, Ontario, a member of t...

Canadians like to tell themselves stories about the serene, progressive country they call home. In certain imaginations, Canada is immune to the social and political toxicity we find around the world -- especially that which we find to the south of us. And yet, a cursory glance at our past and our present tells another tale. Racial prejudice is embedded in Canadian minds and institutions. We must...

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. Anne Snowdon, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Windsor’s Odette School of Business; Academic Chair...

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 Willy Kruh, retired Global Chair, Consumer and Retail at KPMG, and business advisor to leading multinational consumer brands about th...

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.

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 onli...

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 commodificatio...

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 investigat...

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 geriat...

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 E...

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.

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. David Naylor - Professor of Medicine and President Emeritus at the University of Toronto, about Canada’s approach to COVID-19, an...