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Education Crisis Leaves Foreign Students Stranded
Canada Urged To Defend Global LGBTQ+ Rights
Canada’s Hidden Health Workforce Is Ready To Serve

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Education Crisis Leaves Foreign Students Stranded

Decades of underfunding and a bet on high‑ fee foreign enrolment have pushed British Columbia’s public colleges and universities to the brink, derailing the migration dreams of thousands of students from Asia

Canada Urged To Defend Global LGBTQ+ Rights

Rights groups say Ottawa must back its global LGBTQ+ commitments with more funding and clearer diplomacy as queer communities in Asia and Africa face criminalization, violence and shrinking support

Canada’s Hidden Health Workforce Is Ready To Serve

A new ICC report says Canada could add nearly 16,000 doctors and 27,000 nurses and related professionals by closing the immigrant overqualification gap, while 6.5 million Canadians remain without a family doctor

Immigration Cuts Deepen Canada’s Labour Crunch

RBC Economics warns Canada’s workforce is heading into a structural squeeze, with retirements running near record levels, younger worker numbers falling and Ottawa’s immigration cutbacks set to tighten the labour market again

Local news

Celebrating Philippines online and at home

Philippine Days is one of the Lower Mainland’s longest-running annual events

Extinction Rebellion’s cult-like threat to society

Ultimately, they want nothing short of a transfer of democratic power to oligarchies of frantic enviro-zealots

“To respect the environment is to respect the creator”

Giant eco-candle will burn in Surrey for 550 hours in conjunction with the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak

Pressure mounts for a seal harvest in B.C.

Growing markets in Asia will support sealing industry that can protect wild fish stocks and create 4,000 jobs say First Nations groups

Regional news

Vancouver International Dance Festival

Fang-Yi Sheu and friends headline the Vancouver International Dance Festival from March 12-21

 

Vancouver International Dance Festival

Linnea Christine Wong amongst others headlines the annual Vancouver International Dance Festival
 

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