Tari Ajadi is a PhD student in Political Science, a Killam Scholar and an activist from the African-Canadian community working to transform Nova Scotia’s health system to address the inequalities faced by racialized minorities.
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For our final blog, my fellow OpenThinkers and I decided to respond to the prompt: “What do we owe to each other?” I’ve ruminated on this idea for a while, crumpling up half-formed outlines in my mind’s eye (and, for the record, likely missing the imaginary waste-paper basket with the follow-through). Nothing came to me, […]
This weekend, I read two fascinating pieces of work that I’d like to reflect on here. The first is an article by Rao, Segar, Bress et al. (2020) on the association between a risk of cardiovascular illness and West African ancestry. This study is important because the old canard has been that being Black, and […]
Halifax Regional Municipality is in the middle of a municipal election, and it’s also in the middle of a period of transformative change. The effects of COVID-19, of course, loom large for Halifax, and indeed for municipalities across the country. Yet the foundations of life in Halifax were shifting long before the pandemic upended the […]
I am angry. I am angry that it has taken a combination of a global pandemic and an uprising of Black and Indigenous peoples (leading a multiracial coalition) for Canada to engage with the entrenched, structural racism that underwrites life in Canada for those who are not white. I am angry that this uprising has […]
COVID-19 is a humbling example of our collective powerlessness and interdependence. Government institutions across the country have been doing their best to cope by implementing rigorous public health measures that have transformed our day-to-day lives. For those of us with jobs that provide flexibility, or those who qualify for the CERB, those measures have largely been a success. We’ve also seen a flourishing, in some places, of communal solidarity – neighbours helping other […]
As the midpoint of the United Nations Decade for People of African Descent, 2020 offers engaged citizens a useful inflection point to assess progress on key policy concerns for communities of African descent across Canada. Despite the Government of Canada’s early reluctance to acknowledge the Decade, and the belated acknowledgement by federal and provincial leaders […]
