The impact of Donald Trump on Canada has been, it’s fair to say, negative. Much of this has been overt: A few examples include a botched pandemic response that is lengthening an economically damaging border closure, never-ending trade retaliations against Canadian industry, and a dismantling of the United States’ refugee policy such that it now contravenes our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The allegations made against Max FineDay are very serious. Effective immediately, the Institute has accepted Mr. FineDay’s resignation from the Board of Directors and he will absent himself from all Institute activities. The Broadbent Institute is committed to ending violence, in all its forms, wherever and whenever it occurs.

People are struggling. As front-line workers in emergency rooms, isolation shelters and clinics, we see how the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated health and livelihoods. We’ve witnessed the toll that the last several months has taken on workers, families, and marginalized communities.

The Institute's Executive Director, Rick Smith, conducted a ground-breaking experiment on himself that resulted in him being the first person in North America to discover microplastics in his body. 

Read his feature for the Globe and Mail on the experiment and its findings, and watch this clip of him on CTV News discussing the dangers plastics pose to human health.