Janet Kushner-Kow

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Dr. Janet Kushner-Kow is the physician program director of elder care at Providence Health Care and division head of geriatric medicine at the University of British Columbia.

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by Srushhti Trivedi

Finding home in myself

What even was a pandemic? There’s no way that this can last any longer than March break, right?

by Tianna Gao

What the pandemic has taught me

I have gained a newfound appreciation for enduring failures, overcoming challenges and celebrating success as part of maintaining accountability to myself.
by Skye Redman

My Covid Story

At the beginning, we thought that if we wore masks and stayed inside, we would be protected. This wasn’t enough.
by Vaidehee Lanke

The pandemic taught me that education systems can be reinvented

Hybrid was the name of the game in fourth year. With half of my classes on campus, I had to reacquaint myself with how to learn in person again.

Two sides of a coin

It was the twenty third, The people heard, That things would be changing. At home we would stay, For at least 28 days, History in the making.
by Audrey Fisher

Online, off line, repeat

Masks, sanitizing, repeat. Online, off line, online, off line. Can’t eat lunch inside the school. How do I eat outside? It's so cold
by Maryam Mohammad Samir

One step at a time

Of course, everything is one step at a time. I hope that one day, I will be able to walk the school hallways without needing a mask to cover up the insecurities.
by Muaad Seiyad

Finding joy in the little things

The first thing that comes to my mind of how COVID-19 affected me is that I’ve taken the simplest things in life for granted.
by Rowan Ferrie

Without Shame

Strange, growing up in a world where you never know where you will find yourself.
by Stella Fairman

Annoyed and tired … but prepared

I don’t know if I can say that the pandemic has taught me anything. I know it was hard for everybody, and I know that a lot of people had it worse.
by Tasha Lee

I’ve Been Graduating

The degree I earned was in Cinema Studies and I thought it was apt that instead of having people walk across the stage, our names scrolled down a screen.
by Elke Sorensen

Finding comfort in doing the right thing

Throughout the pandemic, I’ve learned that people have the capacity to be so incredibly selfish to the point where they are willing to endanger other people’s lives.
by Hannah Baillie

Our duty to serve

These bumps along the road. These trials life has showed. They’ve made me who I am. They were all part of the plan.
by Juliana Domodossola

Five Things About Post Pandemic Me

It’s a funny thing that even though I spent two years meeting on Zoom somehow, it led me to feel much more confident working in groups.
by Justin Langan

I Am From

I am from the town and valley called Swan River. From the vast prairie wheatfields and the dark and desolate winters.
by K.H Anjaan

Remnants of a Pandemic and the Unbalanced Accounts

The pandemic became the kind of time bomb that would tingle on the synapses of our sanity, with the promise that it would explode but never would.
by Laura Sofia Mosquerra Pava

A cruel loop

Tugging on nostalgia, painfully preserving the present and gatekeeping the future.
by Nazneen

The importance of caring for others

When I first heard about COVID-19 I was in fourth grade, and it was a month before March break.
by Ris V. Rose

Indefinitely

This isn’t what I meant when I said I wanted to go home. This isn’t what I meant when I said there was too much talking, too much grouping.
by Allison Abo

Fractured Hope

There are so many ways in which people have tried to summarize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in one sentence that I don’t even know how to start.

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