3 days ago
It's time to talk about what COVID did to Toronto, and to us
Here is the thing about trauma: You can try to forget it. You can pretend it isn't there. You can do everything in your power to bury it. Just don't expect it to stay underground.
On Saturday, the Star published an essay by former city councillor John Filion on the four municipal leaders who took this city through COVID-19. We know their faces, all of them: John Tory, Joe Cressy, Eileen de Villa and Matthew Pegg. During the pandemic, we watched them, day after day, answering questions, laying out scenarios, shutting things down and opening them up again.