Finding answers to our questions has never been easier. We no longer have to go to a library, pick up an encyclopedia, or take a course to satisfy our curiosity. The internet makes available to us the answers to almost any question we could imagine.

Nearly two months after schools have closed, online education programs are in full swing, social distancing has perpetuated our dependence on social media, and many families have now had weeks of higher volume of screen time than ever before, their lives saturated with apps like Google Meets and Hangouts, FaceTime, and Messenger Kids. A whole crop of children have been accessing this technology for extended periods of time and parents have been given few guidelines on how to talk to them about it.

While we’re social distancing and trying our best to protect the elderly and vulnerable among us, isolation and loneliness can be incredibly taxing on our own mental health. This is why Canadians all across the country are being challenged to “get real” with each other.

When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in defiance of the Roman Senate, the expression “crossing the Rubicon” was born. It marks a point of no return, a moment of society-altering change.

Social distancing is a subject no one was thinking about six months ago. Now it’s top of mind. The need to slow the spread of COVID-19 has us all on lockdown, and the number of faces we each see on a daily basis has shrunk dramatically in the last two weeks.

The role of municipal government has changed considerably over the years. Our local councils were originally assigned the sorts of responsibilities that required local flavour—such as ditches, roads, and drainage.