‘Tired of the word resilience’: Canada’s racialized communities navigate ongoing pandemic Madison Wong For 17 years, Butterfly GoPaul has focused on community development like housing and health care in Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhoods. As a worker on the front lines, she said something as simple as securing an affordable place to live is often a barrier families run into. GoPaul said these inequities have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. “This has been in the works for years. It’s systemic. It’s chronic." For racialized communities, there have been a number of factors contributing to higher rates of COVID-19 in major cities in Canada, but experts said many of these factors existed prior to the pandemic. Vulnerabilities like living situations as well as lack of neighbourhood resources are often left out of the conversation.