COVID-19 crisis will be followed by a period of rapid innovation like the one that followed the 2008-9 financial downturn.Mayor John Tory says the pandemic has caused damage to the city’s economy but the crisis has also taught valuable lessons that should lead to permanent change.
He specifically mentioned the need to use technology to help the city’s vulnerable citizens.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Tory made the comments at the opening of a three-day conference that had to be conducted entirely online due to travel and other restrictions put in place to fight COVID.