The federal government is failing BIPOC Canadians in priority city hubs

The solution here isn’t simply the province tweaking the way vaccines are allocated, the solution is getting enough vaccines so that all groups can be vaccinated equitably.

It’s become very clear that the vaccine procurement plan for Canada is failing. The victims? Black people and other communities of colour who are all too used to getting the shorter end of the stick, writes Vonny Sweetland.Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY VONNY SWEETLAND

April 19, 2021

The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences recently examined who is receiving the vaccine in Toronto and other major cities. Its findings? Wealthy neighbourhoods with low COVID-19 rates had much higher vaccination rates than

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