Interview with Christine Demko. The accommodation and food industry employs roughly 1.4 million people in Canada according to stats Canada. Immigrants make up a large number of these workers. In August 2019, there were 48,000 vacant jobs employers...
A migrant carrying his brother. They have come from Noida sector-91 to a junction near sector-62 in the hope of finding a bus to Unnao, Uttar Pradesh. Photo by Suresh Kumar Pandey. As the COVID-19 pandemic made its way to India, a country with...
As the days inside grow long, and the weather gets warmer, people are wishing life would return to normal. President Donald Trump apparently feels the same way and he has been suggesting medical solutions to the COVID-19 virus during White House...
Representational image: VPN use in Kashmir after lockdown After nearly six months of strict lockdown, internet connectivity was restored in Kashmir, India earlier last month. The flip side was that people could only access the 2G network and have...
Tourists take pictures in a slum in Manila, Philippines. (Hannah Reyes Morales/Nat Geo) Slum tourism is one of the fastest-growing niche tourism segments in the world, but it is also one of the most controversial. Slum tourism is...
Created by: Danielle Orr and Paola Floro. Several research facilities are working alongside international organizations and governments in the global effort to make a vaccine to curb the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The virus has killed 427 people...
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas addressed an emergency meeting for Arab league foreign ministers in Cairo on Saturday. His message was clear, Palestinians reject U.S president Donald Trump’s proposed Middle East peace plan. Dissatisfied by the...
Coronavirus has shocked the worldwide populous. The speed at which the disease spreads has been alarming. As of February 4th, 2020, there have been 20,630 confirmed cases of coronavirus. There have been 23 countries with confirmed cases of...
The World Health Organization has asked countries to refrain from increasing “fear and stigma” in the international community by imposing travel and trade restrictions. On the other hand, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)...
From being unable to produce work to having to feed 41 million people, China has begun to face monetary setbacks. China is one of the world’s biggest export hubs, its greatest strength is manufacturing and export. In 2002, when a fatal...
The Iowa caucuses turned into a political quagmire, with many results unable to be counted, or counted accurately, marking a messy start for the Democrats seeking to unseat Donald Trump as President. The Iowa Caucus took place on Monday, Feb 3 2020...
Photo of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridgesource: Photo courtesy of Pixabay The World Health Organization has decidedly said the coronavirus is not a pandemic. In a press conference Tuesday, the agency said they are hopeful that the virus can be...
History is repeating itself, albeit in novel ways. Novel coronavirus, believed to have spread from China’s Wuhan, has killed 494 people and has infected over 20,000 people across 25 countries so far. The virus is proving to be yet another zoonotic...
WHO’s line is it anyway? After the World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the novel Coronavirus a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”. This body of health officials has since encouraged...
Canada is prepared to tackle the Coronavirus if required. Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu, has said that Canadians are being watched for signs of the Coronavirus that may have developed in Wuhan, China. A handful of people from Quebec, Vancouver...
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