The pandemic has traumatized a sizeable chunk of the population, and left us with an uncertain fiscal situation. An entire generation is priced out of the "good house and good job in return for hard work" social contract. Most of this country's breadbasket is facing a drought that looks set to be among the country's worst in history. The need to do betterFear and anger are like the silent ocean currents that drive up land temperatures and trap dry air on land. But the "long run" can be very long indeed, and we're going to need our politics to be much, much better than this.

Source: CBC News August 18, 2021 11:00 UTC