In places with low vaccination rates, COVID-19 has the chance to linger, and variants develop and travel. Without global vaccine equity, this entirely predictable pattern will repeat itself.
Anti-Asian racist violence during the pandemic has exposed how little has changed when it comes to the legacy of legalized and everyday racism that structures the lives of Asian Canadians and other racialized minorities.
Canada’s response to death of 57 Canadians in a Tehran plane crash is a heartening change from the detached reaction to the Air India tragedy in 1985.