The Coronavirus Crisis Exposed Gaps In Canada's Social Programs. Now's The Time To Fill Them.

This story is part of After The Curve, an ongoing HuffPost Canada series that makes sense of how the COVID-19 crisis could change our country in the months and years ahead, and what opportunities exist to make Canada better.Ken Newell returned home from the battlefield in 1945 to a transformed Canada.Long gone were the days of his childhood as an orphan in Nova Scotia. His mother and father, a First World War veteran, both died of tuberculosis. Unsupported by any government assistance, he h