It was exactly 367 days ago when Canada’s women’s basketball team qualified for Tokyo 2020. Fast-forward to today, and the team is coming off a week-long virtual training camp, unable to meet in person due to the pandemic that forced the one-year postponement of the Olympics.
If there was ever any doubt, the pandemic makes it clear that no one in society is truly protected until everyone is protected, writes Food Banks Canada director of research Richard Matern.
Reduced access to homeless shelters during the pandemic has made an already vulnerable population more so, but advocates say a federal housing program that finds homes and support for people living on the streets offers respite for some.
As the pandemic grinds on, Russia, India and China are competing to gain influence and political clout abroad through the vehicle of vaccine diplomacy.