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Dakshana Bascaramurty
StaffReporter
dbascaramurty@globeandmail.com

Dakshana Bascaramurty is a national news reporter for The Globe and Mail who writes about race and ethnicity. She won a 2013 National Newspaper Award in beat reporting for her coverage of changing demographics in the 905 region. Previously, she was a feature writer for Globe Life.

Honours & Awards

National Newspaper Award, 2013

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Essential jobs, multigenerational homes: Filipino Canadians are bearing a heavy brunt of COVID-19
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Canada Post suspends mail delivery to several Toronto high-rises, citing COVID-19 exposure concerns
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How a Toronto outreach worker overcame her fear of the COVID-19 vaccine
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Grassroots task force helps Brampton battle the coronavirus
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Why many long-term care workers initially passed on the COVID-19 vaccine
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Racialized Canadians have some of the highest rates of COVID-19 infections in the country. Who can allay their doubts about taking the vaccine?
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Deemed essential, long-haul truckers risk infection and spreading COVID-19 with every shift
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Voice memos capture an Ontario nurse’s first-wave safety concerns before she died of COVID-19 in January
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Off the court: How drama at a rec centre led to an Ontario town’s reckoning with race
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How six charities, from Saskatoon to Montreal, have adapted to COVID-19’s chilling effects this winter
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He was a husband, a father of nine and a health care aide in Manitoba. His death due to coronavirus has left layers of devastation
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Power at their fingertips: Indigenous people turn to social media to expose injustice
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Toronto police officer Michael Theriault sentenced to nine months over assault of Dafonte Miller
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To many, this U.S. election became a referendum on race
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Tom Cardoso answered reader questions on his investigation into racial bias in Canada’s prisons
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RCMP Commissioner defends officers' response to violence against Mi’kmaq fishery
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Social-service organizations struggle to help Toronto neighbourhoods hit hard by coronavirus
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High anxiety: In Toronto’s immigrant-rich apartment towers, elevators and density keep many students at home
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Black teen Dafonte Miller still struggling years after assault by off-duty Toronto police officer, court hears
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How race, income and ‘opportunity hoarding’ will shape Canada’s back-to-school season