The state of the Canadian media during and after the Covid-19 pandemic

Tara Henley is a Canadian journalist and the author of the national bestseller Lean Out: A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Life. Her 22-year career spans TV, radio, online media, magazines, and newspapers. A former current affairs radio producer at the CBC, and a former books columnist for The Toronto Star, her writing has appeared in dozens of outlets across Canada and around the world. She now publishes a popular Substack newsletter, Lean Out. Her weekly interview podcast of the same name has listeners in 150 countries and 5,000 cities worldwide.

Kevin Bardosh is the Director of Collateral Global, a UK-based charity dedicated to researching the global impacts of Covid-19 policy responses and helping the world better balance societal trade-offs during future health emergencies. He has worked in more than 20 countries on infectious disease control programs (including Ebola and Zika), authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and edited two books. He is currently an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health, University of Washington USA and an Honorary Lecturer at the Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh UK.