How the coronavirus pandemic is changing Toronto life and business – for better or worse

By Shauna Brail, Associate Professor, Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto Mississauga, University of Toronto

On May 1, Toronto announced that 40 per cent of the city’s adult population had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. This positive public health milestone — signalling progress on vaccinations following a slow and bungled start — lends hope to the notion that urban life in Toronto will rise again as current pandemic restrictions are eventually permitted to diminish.

At the outset of the pandemic 13 months…

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