Journalism Students Document Lives Lost in the COVID-19 Pandemic

It was one of the hardest phone calls Carleton journalism student Megan Costa ever had to make. Costa was given the names of two Toronto women who died from COVID-19 — mother and daughter Doris and Dianne Chin. Her assignment was to locate and interview their next of kin.

Megan Costa

“I was really nervous about it because I had never spoken to someone who had gone through something this traumatic,” says Costa.

“I eventually reached Natasha, who had lost both her mom and her grandmother within three days of each other. But she was very thankful to be able to tell their stories and that they would be remembered as actual people who did extraordinary things.”

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