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Dakshana Bascaramurty

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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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Latest articles

Shaken by recent attacks, Canadian Muslim women stand up against hate even amid safety fears

Published June 12, 2021

Vaccine hesitancy raises alarms as COVID-19′s highly contagious Delta variant spreads in Brampton

Published June 7, 2021

ਅਸੰਭਵ ਵਿਕਲਪ : ਬਰੈਂਪਟਨ ਦੀ ਇਹ ਕਮਿਊਨਿਟੀ ਦਰਸਾਊਂਦੀ ਹੈ ਕੈਨੇਡਾ ‘ਚ ਕੋਵਿਡ 19 ਸੰਕਟ ਦਾ ਅਸਲੀ ਚਿਹਰਾ

Published May 20, 2021

અસંભવ વિકલ્પો: બધાથી અલગ રીતે બ્રેમપ્ટન કૉમ્યૂનિટી કેનેડાની COVID-19 કટોકટીને કેવી રીતે સમજાવે છે

Published May 20, 2021

ناممکِن اِنتخاب۔ برامپٹن کی یہ کمیونٹی کس طرح کینڈا کی کوڈ۔19 بحران کی وضاحت کرتی ہیں، جسے کوی اور نہیں کر سکتا۔

Published May 20, 2021

अकल्पनीय विकल्प: ब्रैम्पटन का यह समुदाय कनाडा के COVID-19 संकट को विशिष्ट रूप से दर्शाता है

Published May 20, 2021

Impossible choices: How this Brampton community explains Canada’s COVID-19 crisis like no other

Published May 20, 2021

Emily Victoria Viegas, 13, is one of the youngest people in Canada to die from COVID-19

Published April 25, 2021

Essential jobs, multigenerational homes: Filipino Canadians are bearing a heavy brunt of COVID-19

Published April 5, 2021

Canada Post suspends mail delivery to several Toronto high-rises, citing COVID-19 exposure concerns

Published March 3, 2021

How a Toronto outreach worker overcame her fear of the COVID-19 vaccine

Published February 25, 2021

Grassroots task force helps Brampton battle the coronavirus

Published February 21, 2021

Why many long-term care workers initially passed on the COVID-19 vaccine

Published February 8, 2021

Racialized Canadians have some of the highest rates of COVID-19 infections in the country. Who can allay their doubts about taking the vaccine?

Published January 26, 2021

Deemed essential, long-haul truckers risk infection and spreading COVID-19 with every shift

Published January 25, 2021

Voice memos capture an Ontario nurse’s first-wave safety concerns before she died of COVID-19 in January

Published January 8, 2021

Off the court: How drama at a rec centre led to an Ontario town’s reckoning with race

Published December 16, 2020

How six charities, from Saskatoon to Montreal, have adapted to COVID-19’s chilling effects this winter

Published December 12, 2020

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

Published December 10, 2020

Power at their fingertips: Indigenous people turn to social media to expose injustice

Published November 7, 2020