Safety nets were chopped and now we’re screwed trying to respond to the ‘equal opportunity virus’

The employment insurance program can barely function when we need it most because politicians stole from workers to make their books look balanced. Indeed, as is the custom of the first of April, we were fooled.
Cardi B is one of those few intersectional voices leading the communication of the consequences of this virus to those who mainstream media news broadcasts cannot reach, writes Erica Ifill.
OTTAWA—The entire Western world was feelin’ itself until the novel coronavirus hit. Now, we’ve been humbled like Justin Trudeau on his blackface apology tour. Every time I type the name of this pandemic, all I can hear is Cardi B’s coronavi...

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