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Dakshana Bascaramurty

Dakshana Bascaramurty

Reporter at The Globe and Mail Online

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  • Health & Medicine

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Endearing phone calls to strangers in Atlantic Canada bring digital creator social media success

Jax Irwin got the inspiration to make these calls on a trip back home to Dartmouth in August, where she found herself unexpectedly moved by the warmth of short, benign interactions
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Peggy’s Cove, N.S., the backdrop of many selfies, lays down the law...

Decades of recklessness resulting in drownings and rescue missions has led Nova Scotia to staff Peggy’s Cove with security guards
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How The Globe changed its outlook on Africville, the razing and the...

As Black History Month begins, a look back at the decades of controversy over a Black neighbourhood in Nova Scotia – and how The Globe first justified its demolition and sought justice for its ex-residents
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Several homes burned in Halifax wildfire, more than 16000 evacuated...

Nova Scotia Premier says dozens of structures have been lost to the blaze and evacuation orders are expected to be in place for a few days
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Halifax choir brings newcomers together to learn English, one note ...

The Halifax Newcomer Choir has swelled from just a handful of drop-in singers to a few dozen, reflecting a recent surge in immigration as the province aggressively courts newcomers
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Law schools should boost number of Black law students in Canada ......

Black Law Student Census Report suggests law schools create separate admission program and Black-focused scholarships and bursaries
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Newcomer YouTubers help immigrants get settled in Canada with ... -...

Recent immigrants across Canada are filling the settlement service gap with videos on everything from finding work to buying groceries
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Canadians more supportive of immigration than ever, new poll finds

The poll found 69 per cent of those surveyed were in support of current levels of immigration, compared to just 35 per cent in 1977
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This Ontario nurse knew our health system was broken. That still di...

35-year-old Birgit Umaigba opened up a channel to hear other people’s stories of pregnancy loss and the frustrations of navigating care
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Canadian online searches grow for far-right and white supremacy con...

Canadians’ searches for far-right content increased by 19 per cent each week during periods when the government called for pandemic-related lockdowns, co-founder of organization that monitors violent extremism says
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The way protesters were treated in Ottawa had an unexpected side ef...

The defund police movement is at a crossroads, and organizers have watched what has unfolded in Ottawa, Windsor and Coutts, Alta. with a mix of optimism, cynicism and resignation
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Equal rights champion Glenda Simms believed feminism should include...

As the first Black president of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women, she believed in the importance of intersectionality long before it had entered mainstream discourse
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Halifax’s blind piano mover takes a delicate job one step at a time

Gary Trenholm, co-owner of Doctor Piano, hasn’t been able to see since he was a child – but when Nova Scotians need a heavy instrument moved, he can picture the best path to do it
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How do you get kids vaccinated in areas where uptake is low? Same c...

Ottawa approved use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Comirnaty vaccine for children 5 to 11 a month ago, but uptake has been slow in some regions
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Toronto health centre changed its focus to one of ‘cultural humilit...

TAIBU Community Health Centre has helped encourage new Canadians and the majority Black community get screened for cancer
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Canada's international student recruiting machine is broken - The G...

From rural Punjab to suburban Brampton, Ont., a booming industry brings in thousands of Indians each year – but while recruiters and schools profit, many students flounder due to lack of supports
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In Brampton, federal campaign pledges to boost immigration are crea...

Among the South Asian diasporas of this Ontario city, the real issue of the 2021 election is not how fast Canada can bring in newcomers, but whether they’ll have the supports they need to integrate
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Impossible choices: How this Brampton community explains Canada’s C...

To understand how one city continued moving throughout the pandemic when much of the country went still, we spoke to a taxi driver, a warehouse worker and other members of the community who live in postal code L6P — where the test positivity rate has hovered above 20 per cent
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Off the court: How drama at a rec centre led to an Ontario town’s r...

After a fight in Bradford, Ont., five racialized teens were barred for more than a year from the only recreation centre and library. The families fought back. What happened next revealed problems deeper than what human-rights tribunals and task forces can fix
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He was a husband, a father of nine and a health care aide in Manito...

The sudden death of Jean Claude Dianzenza Bahati, a 60-year-old Congolese immigrant and father of nine, due to COVID-19 has left his family and many in his community shocked and dismayed
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Excerpt: Dakshana Bascaramurty shares her late friend’s story of ca...

This Is Not the End of Me chronicles photographer Layton Reid’s three-year struggle to live for his son Finn, then prepare him for a life without him