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In March 2020, the RSC President and the Board of Directors determined that the RSC ought to do what it can to ensure that Canada emerges as a better society coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic than it was going into it.





Established by the President of the Royal Society of Canada in April 2020, the RSC Task Force on COVID-19 was mandated to provide evidence-informed perspectives on major societal challenges in response to and recovery from COVID-19.
The RSC Policy Briefing entitled “Time to be Counted: COVID-19 and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities” is now freely and publicly available here.
Established by the President of the Royal Society of Canada in April 2020, the RSC Task Force on COVID-19 was mandated to provide evidence-informed perspectives on major societal challenges in response to and recovery from COVID-19.
The RSC Collection of Essays entitled “Impacts of COVID-19 in Racialized Communities” is now freely and publicly available here.
The collection, which initially appeared as a series of essays in the Globe and Mail in the fall of 2020, has been updated to include a background to racism in Canadian society by Dr. Frances Henry, FRSC.

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