My family lived this nightmare when my 6-year-old daughter was rushed to hospital barely breathing last week. Now that she's out of hospital and my cortisol levels are down a bit, I can share our experience and some questions I'm asking.

theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… When we arrived at emergency, families were overflowing from the waiting room into the parking lot. Security guards were tasked with maintaining order. I elbowed my way in and was immediately seen due to how acute my daughter's illness was.

Nearly 6 months ago, a group of us hastily created a website SaveSmallBusiness.ca. Within a couple of weeks our digital cry for help ballooned into a grassroots campaign backed by 38,000 small biz owners. Today, we're winding it down. But not because the work is done [thread] Far from it. We feel we largely failed at what we set out to do, to advocate policies that would prevent small biz from failing due to COVID-19. Emergency supports for small biz put into place by our gov were delayed, watered down and over complicated. They failed to reach many