We see the intersection of Portage and Main every day from our Lombard Street office. We walk through Winnipeg Square. We see the PSAC picketers out every morning lately, and the occasional round dance or protest. If and when the Jets win the Stanley Cup, we’ll have a sweet vantage point for whatever impromptu party erupts.

Like most people around the world, it was mid-March when the shocking realization set in that the COVID-19 pandemic would be like nothing we’d experienced before.