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Problem Statement: Despite climate change posing an immediate threat and causing enormous concern, pandemic is not the only issue that needs to be taken seriously due to its long-term implications. Climate change is caused by humans, while viruses have their agency (Latour, 2007). However, there may still be a relationship between climatic change and the COVID-19 pandemic that is representative of the Anthropocene (Heyd, ...
How to best engage the public, capture a diversity of interests in community-wide decision-making, and effectively identify the ‘common good’ are all age-old problems within the field of urban planning. Today, the complexity of these challenges is further compounded by rapidly-rising rates of immigration, which is the reality confronting many cities across the globe. In Canada, where newcomers continue to settle overwhelmingly in urban areas, planners have been working to overcome the barr...
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, governments and public health authorities worldwide have implemented preventive measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and frequent handwashing, among others, to preventthevirus'sspread. Whiletheseactionsareessential,ithasbecomeapparentthatpeoplein pre-existing disadvantaged situations (e.g., lacking access to safely managed water, sanitation, hygiene, etc.) have found it challengi...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on the lives of workers from varying socio-economic backgrounds in Canada. This study focuses on essential immigrant workers who made fundamental contributions during this unprecedented public health crisis. Specifically, our study explores the lived experiences of immigrant personal support workers (PSWs). Immigrant PSWs were labelled “essential workers” during the COVID-...