Anti-Asian racism is on the rise across Canada. This platform aims to allow individuals to share their experiences of racism, and will allow us to track and record instances of Anti-Asian racism during COVID-19. You’ll also find resources and support that you can access. We’ll get through this together.
Young people are facing a range of systemic issues that will significantly impact their futures as they enter the job market, start families, and seek financial prosperity. However, they are being faced with financial crises, a labour market becoming increasingly precarious, growing inequality, climate change, and amidst COVID-19, social norms will never be the same.
This webinar brings young Basic Income advocates, researchers and observers together to discuss Basic Income as a potential national social policy for Canada; including the unique challenges of the gig economy and recommendations for how our political institutions can – and should – respond.
While the world may have been caught off guard by the size and ramifications of the COVID-19 crisis, it should be prepared to respond to the increased risks to the wellbeing and safety of children and women. Violence against children and violence against women are widespread globally and intrinsically linked, sharing common risk factors and similar adverse and severe consequences. The literature within pandemics may be limited, but we have enough evidence to say unequivocally that related factors—such as confinement, social isolation, increased levels of financial stress, and weak institutional responses—can increase or intensify levels of violence.
ARC Retirement Living, which runs five facilities in Greater Vancouver, including where Hollands lives, have constructed free-standing, pod-like “family meet-up centres.”
The large, red structures made out of shipping containers allow for a resident to visit up to two family members at a time, with a barrier of plexiglass in between to ensure physical distancing.
Read this column from the Cowichan Valley Citizen from Sonia Furstenau, MLA for the Cowichan Valley.