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Health

‘I am back to square one’: How COVID-19 impacted recently resettled Yazidi and Syrian refugees

Leah Hamilton, Mount Royal University and Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and exacerbated existing challenges and vulnerabilities across Canada’s immigration system. It has placed an uneven burden on refugees, including temporary halts on Canada’s resettlement efforts and has increased their risk of COVID-19 infection. Beyond higher infection rates, how did lockdowns, school closures and the economic downturn impact refugees who … Continue reading ‘I am back to square one’: How COVID-19 impacted recently resettled Yazidi and Syrian refugees

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Environment

IPCC report: Half the world is facing water scarcity, floods and dirty water — large investments are needed for effective solutions

Balsher Singh Sidhu, University of British Columbia More than half the world’s population faces water scarcity for at least one month every year. Meanwhile, some people have to deal with too much water, while others have access to only poor water quality. That’s billions of people living with drought in Africa and India, facing flood risks in Bangladesh or lacking clean water due to excessive … Continue reading IPCC report: Half the world is facing water scarcity, floods and dirty water — large investments are needed for effective solutions

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Environment

Data from thousands of surveillance cameras confirms that protected areas safeguard species diversity

Cheng Chen, University of British Columbia and Cole Burton, University of British Columbia We have entered what some scientists refer to as Earth’s sixth major extinction. Human disturbances, such as over-harvesting of crops, habitat destruction and invasive species, are the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss. Some studies estimate that the current species extinction rate is 1,000 times the normal background rate. One of the most … Continue reading Data from thousands of surveillance cameras confirms that protected areas safeguard species diversity

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Society and culture

Where a Free Meal for Food-Insecure Families Is Just a Text Away

“One of the biggest misconceptions is that we have to be a nonprofit to address food insecurity,” says Adam Dole, co-founder of Bento. PHOTO COURTESY OF BENTO In May 2021, Chelsea Vasquez and her mother caught two metro buses from their Inglewood, California, home to St. John’s Well Child & Family Center clinic, where they had appointments to receive their first doses of the COVID-19 … Continue reading Where a Free Meal for Food-Insecure Families Is Just a Text Away

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Society and culture

When Witnessing Becomes Activism

Protestor’s at a Black Lives Matter demonstration. PHOTO BY BRAXTON DANIELS In May of 2020, 17-year-old Darnella Frazier was in front of a local market in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when she saw a White police officer pin a Black man to the ground. She pulled out her phone and pressed record and stood there for more than nine minutes, silently documenting George Floyd’s murder. Frazier’s split-second … Continue reading When Witnessing Becomes Activism

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