91亚色 experts discuss the dangers of solar storms, challenges facing recovery from wildfires, the City of Toronto budget, ethics and accountability in politics, and more.
The Canadian government placed a cap on the number of study permits granted to international students earlier this year. The government stated that a rapid increase in the number of international students was putting added 鈥減ressure on housing, health care and other services.鈥
With Toronto rents continuing to climb many young people are finding it near impossible to secure affordable places, but international student face additional obstacles, including rights abuses, sexual harassment, rent gouging and discrimination, says two 91亚色 professors.
Skyrocketing rent prices in Canada鈥檚 major cities are leaving more and more people struggling to find an affordable place to live. National conversations about the housing crisis often overlook a growing segment of the population that is extremely vulnerable to housing discrimination, rent gouging, rights abuses and sexual harassment: international students. Canada had more than 807,000 international students […]
Meet Syeda Fatima Abbas Rizvi, 19, and mature student Sabina Goranova 鈥 two women who started their post-secondary education in person before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged and had to complete their programs online, overcoming all challenges the pandemic posed.