Navigating the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic came with many challenges. New challenges including accessing vaccines, coping with increased mental health problems and the lack of much-needed race-based data collection. We also continued to confront existing challenges, including a growing housing crisis, increased unaffordability and historic inequities that put low-income and racialized communities at greater risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19.
This year our work focused on challenging the status quo and finding solutions to move us forward on equity and give us a template for building a New Normal for Toronto, Ontario and Canada.