The Sick Kid’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario released a report that outlined the importance of children returning back to school for their mental and emotional health. School is a safe and nurturing space for many children which positively impacts their mental and emotional wellness (which has been on the decline since the onset of the pandemic).

COVID-19 forced us to slow down and stay home. We were also forced to think. To think about where our lives were headed, to think about our current political systems, and to think about our socio-economic systems. With more time to be on our devices and watching our TVs, more people were seeing the atrocities towards black people and other racialized bodies, with more time to sit and think about what was actually happening. It caused a bit of an uprising in our whole world (not just in our North American community).