Eating disorders, disinterest in learning, and an overwhelming sense of hopelessness are gripping older children while the younger ones ask questions that parents or teachers cannot answer.
View More The Toll of the Pandemic on Students: a Niagara Teacher and Mother
As parents battle with ongoing lockdown, the mental health of BIPOC children is increasingly affected. Lack of physical boundaries between home, school and social activities create further mental stress. NCM reporter, Sedanah Qwai, speaks to healthcare practitioners to see how lives have changed over the past year for children and young adults.
View More Pandemic Affecting Mental Health of BIPOC Children
Meet Canadian-born activist and former UN official, Jill Carr-Harris. She sat down with NCM to discuss how she is helping empower indigenous women in India fight at the frontlines of the pandemic.
View More Canadian Activist Empowers India’s Indigenous Women to Fight COVID-19
What is needed to tackle vaccine inequality is a model of world co-operation where the battle with the pandemic is not fought “on the bodies of Black and brown children and women … in nations of the Global South,” panellists at a recent Oxfam webinar said.
View More Vaccine Inequality Costs Lives in Global South and Hurts Us All
As Ontario works through phase three of its vaccination plan, the priority to vaccinate Gen Z (18 to 24 years of age) lies at the bottom of the list, starting only by the week of May 24 in most regions. As more younger patients make up new COVID-19 ICU admissions, what does this mean for young adults living with family or roommates, and students travelling back home without vaccination?
View More Ontario’s Vaccine Prioritization Leaves Students in the Cold
Physicians trained abroad want to help with the fight against COVID-19. Why won’t Canada let them? Jagdeesh Mann investigates in this long-form essay written in collaboration with The Walrus.
View More Even During a Pandemic, Immigrant Doctors Struggle to Find Work
The Indian diaspora in Canada is devastated by the COVID-19 crisis unfolding thousands of kilometres away, fearing for family members and friends.
View More ‘All We Can Do Is Pray’: Indian Diaspora Shaken by COVID-19 Crisis Back Home
Three nurses share the challenges to practising their profession, and how planning and financial resources helped
View More The Long Road to a Nursing Job in Canada
Internationally-educated nurses go through several hoops to practice as registered nurses in Canada. This wasn’t the case in the early 1960s, specifically for nurses recruited from the Philippines.
View More What History Can Tell Us About Working as an Immigrant Nurse in Canada
Two recent cases of death by suicide among Indian international students in Canada have shed light on a disturbing trend, which seems to have been exacerbated by the pandemic. Concerned community members want students to know that they are not alone with their problems.
View More Recent Deaths of Indian International Students Point to Disturbing Trend