Kate Choi and Patrick Denice
Pandemics have historically given rise to major social and demographic transformation. Labour shortages following the Black Plague, for example, resulted in the rise of the middle class.
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Like its predecessors, the current COVID-19 pandemic likely will usher in major social changes as a result of the number of deaths, disruptions to fertility and restrictions to immigration.
The most direct impact of COVID-19 are deaths. By early May 2021, the pandemic had infected 152 million people and had claimed more than three million lives worldwide.
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Day: Distinct services go a long way to address Indigenous homelessness As we continue to face the health and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, our city’s homelessness crisis has visibly grown. This is particularly true among our Indigenous community.
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Publishing date: May 02, 2021 • 5 hours ago • 3 minute read Illustration by Mike Hensen
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As we continue to face the health and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, our city’s homelessness crisis has visibly grown. This is particularly true among our Indigenous community.
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The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has radically disrupted people’s travel habits, with uncertain outcomes for car use. On one hand, it has resulted in empty roads, sold-out bike stores and cities with cleaner air. On the other, it threatens a public transit death spiral and the sudden dominance of drive-in services.
The stresses of the past year have altered the complex system of constraints that underpins mass car use and changed the ways we use cars. If this continues, it could reduce the use of private cars, but could also radically increase it.
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Meanwhile, Atlantic Canada’s COVID-19 response has been a world-famous success story, often attributed to its coastal geography and relatively low population density, as well as what Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer, has called the region’s “collective ethic” the willingness of its people to follow directives and make sacrifices for the common good.
These factors are often used to argue that Atlantic Canada is a unique case that it would be unfeasible to replicate the region’s success elsewhere. And yet this is evidently untrue, as demonstrated by the list of 28 countries that have largely beaten COVID-19, including China, Vietnam, Singapore and Australia.
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