marginalized communities

We shouldn’t wait until an emergency to spare a thought for our marginalized communities

By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer When I heard about the new COVID-19 support for Indigenous communities from the BC government I was, frankly, shocked. Legitimate help for Indigenous people during a pandemic was the last thing I expected, considering the colonial history of catastrophic neglect. Of course increased actions around healthcare, transportation, and accomodation are great, but it begs the question: why hadn’t they been taken already?  Indigenous communities had been struggling under the inequities of colonial rule centuries before the arrival of coronavirus. For example, many of them are vulnerable to food insecurity, and some don’t even have clean drinking…

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