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In Canada, 84% of COVID-19 related deaths have been in long-term care (LTC) homes, making the proportion of Canadian COVID-19 deaths double the average of all other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to date. This paper attempts to examine how such a devastating proportion of LTC residents could have become the victims of the virus in a country which openly proclaims to have successfully flattened the curve of the virus. This paper examines this question by drawing on Agamben's figure of the Muselmann and his thinking about the relation between the state of exception to the rule; specifically, how each secretly institutes each other. In particular, Thobani's and Weheliye's rethinkings of the Muselmann as the site of racialized logics and assemblages are mobilized to illuminate the techniques used to script the bodies of these LTC residents as bare life so their suffering and deaths come be seen as natural and expected in an ever-extending state of emergency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers the disparities in the responses to COVID-19 between Canada and some countries in the Global South. It is an attempt to consider how the impacts of the pandemic--lockdown and quarantines--are experienced differently based on the economic circumstances of the Global South versus the Global North. This short paper underlines how COVID-19 is narratively framed as a pandemic primarily because it has the ability to impact people in the Global North; it highlights the fact that endemic (and easily curable) diseases are common in the Global South but rarely receive such global attention and never have such resources made available to fight them. The author asks readers to consider the cost of the fight against COVID-19 on populations like the urban poor and migrants and refugees who are already vulnerable to mistreatment, hunger, malnutrition and death because of their precariousness within the neo-liberal global order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the contemporary moment of Black revolt and the struggle to defund and abolish police in Canada and North America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]