By Sukaina Jaffer in Toronto, ON On April 25th, parents attended a workshop titled “Supporting our Children through Anxiety and Stress,” at Silver Stream Public…
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Category: Health
Immigrant Children’s Health Declines Rapidly After Arrival in Canada
By Hassan Vatanparast and Ginny Lane in Saskatoon, SK A healthy, happy future, free from poverty: This is the aspiration of many new immigrants and…
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The Modern Roma: Nannies Working Under Exploitation
By Isabel Inclan in Toronto, ON During the 2019 Academy Awards, one of the event luxury seats was occupied by Yalitza Aparicio, the first Indigenous…
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Ontario’s Caregivers: Double the Work, Half the Benefits
By: Shan Qiao in Toronto, ON Cindy Leung drops off her husband, Chuck, to a day program at a Scarborough, Ontario long-term care facility. Waving…
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By: Tazeen Inam in Toronto, ON One woman is murdered in Canada every six days, according to the Canadian Women’s Foundation. This statistic belies what’s…
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Being Brown and Depressed
By: Aparna Sanyal in Montreal, QC We have yet to understand the impact of covert racism and misogyny on the mental health of Canadian citizens,…
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Ushering in the new Health Age
By Shan Qiao in Toronto, ON At the age of 60, quitting a well-paying job to refinance her townhouse and start an entrepreneurial venture was the…
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By: Viji Sundaram in Mountainview, California A much heralded push toward digital patient portals, commonly integrated with electronic health records, may be exacerbating health disparities…
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Allergies among Newcomers in Canada Increase Over Time
By Belen Febres-Cordero in Vancouver, BC Upon arrival, immigrant populations in Canada tend to present less allergies than their Canadian-born counterparts, but prevalence increases with…
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Medical Student Re-discovers Jaffna
by Gayathri Naganathan in Scarborough I was born at the Vavuniya General Hospital in the winter of 1988, in a town that is often referred…
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