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Dakshana Bascaramurty

Dakshana Bascaramurty

Reporter at The Globe and Mail Online

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Dakshana Bascaramurty
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Impossible choices: How this Brampton community explains Canada’s COVID-19 crisis like no other

To understand how one city continued moving throughout the pandemic when much of the country went still, we spoke to a taxi driver, a warehouse worker and other members of the community who live in postal code L6P — where the test positivity rate has hovered above 20 per cent
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Canada's international student recruiting machine is broken - The G...

From rural Punjab to suburban Brampton, Ont., a booming industry brings in thousands of Indians each year – but while recruiters and schools profit, many students flounder due to lack of supports
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Toronto health centre changed its focus to one of ‘cultural humilit...

TAIBU Community Health Centre has helped encourage new Canadians and the majority Black community get screened for cancer
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How do you get kids vaccinated in areas where uptake is low? Same c...

Ottawa approved use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty vaccine for children 5 to 11 a month ago, but uptake has been slow in some regions
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Halifax’s blind piano mover takes a delicate job one step at a time

Gary Trenholm, co-owner of Doctor Piano, hasn’t been able to see since he was a child – but when Nova Scotians need a heavy instrument moved, he can picture the best path to do it
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Equal rights champion Glenda Simms believed feminism should include...

As the first Black president of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, she believed in the importance of intersectionality long before it had entered mainstream discourse
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The way protesters were treated in Ottawa had an unexpected side ef...

The defund police movement is at a crossroads, and organizers have watched what has unfolded in Ottawa, Windsor and Coutts, Alta. with a mix of optimism, cynicism and resignation

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Canadian online searches grow for far-right and white supremacy con...

Canadians’ searches for far-right content increased by 19 per cent each week during periods when the government called for pandemic-related lockdowns, co-founder of organization that monitors violent extremism says
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This Ontario nurse knew our health system was broken. That still di...

35-year-old Birgit Umaigba opened up a channel to hear other people’s stories of pregnancy loss and the frustrations of navigating care
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Newcomer YouTubers help immigrants get settled in Canada with ... -...

Recent immigrants across Canada are filling the settlement service gap with videos on everything from finding work to buying groceries
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Law schools should boost number of Black law students in Canada ......

Black Law Student Census Report suggests law schools create separate admission program and Black-focused scholarships and bursaries