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By Tendisai Cromwell University and college graduates, increasingly unable to find employment matching their education, are feeling the heat in the job market in these tough economic times. Rolla Tahir, a 23-year-old University of Toronto graduate, sits comfortably in her apartment in Toronto’s downtown core. The Middle Eastern decor is reminiscent of Egypt where she [...]
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In a competitive job market, prospective employees need something to make their resumes stand out. Bilingualism is one way to accomplish this and it holds an important place in the Canadian job market as the largest employer in Canada, the federal government, needs to fill between 4,800 and 6,000 bilingual positions per year. By Veronique [...]
Read more...By Chris Hampton While Toronto surges with trendy, gourmet burger joints, one Annex diner serves up hamburgers that have stood the test of time. People’s Foods opened at 176 Dupont St. in 1963. The small greasy spoon has charmed generations of locals with its table-side jukeboxes, red vinyl booths and piled-high portions. “The place hasn’t [...]
Read more...Senior woman copes with growing old in Canada By Svjetlana Vrbanic Johanna Rivic is a humble senior. At age 81 she receives a small pension supplemented by Old Age Security (OAS). Her husband Ivo died nine years ago so she also receives a widow’s pension. Like many seniors in Toronto, she has just enough to [...]
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Low income is one factor that directly affects immigrants’ ability to choose where they live, creating a cultural divide between downtown and the suburbs. Many non-white immigrants come to Canada with high levels of education but are not getting good jobs, says University of Toronto social work professor David Hulchanski. This leads to a mismatch [...]
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Neils Veldhuis, Vice-President of Canadian Policy Research for the Fraser Institute, talks about moving up the income ladder. Although a recent op-ed column in the New York Times called income inequality “the next global warming,” the number of families that can’t afford basic needs like food and housing has decreased in the past decade. The [...]
Read more...The Habitat Campus Coalition, the university arm of Habitat for Humanity Toronto, staged a 24-hour occupation in plywood cabins on Victoria and Gould streets to raise money for their next building project – a home for a low-income family in Scarborough, Ontario. By: Amanda De Souza At 7a.m. on Jan. 27, students from across Toronto [...]
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Many Jewish elementary schools charge over $10,000 a year in Ontario. These are not prep schools. Why do many parents endure the financial sacrifice when a public school is around every corner? By Asher Greenberg Eddie and Ita Tobis are a young Orthodox Jewish couple. Two and a half year-old Josh will be starting [...]
Read more...Rising law school tuition fees and debts have forced graduates to decide whether they can afford to wait for their dream jobs. Emma Holland had every intention of going into politics and working on parliament hill. But after law school, financial burdens won out over aspirations when she found it difficult to land a government [...]
Read more...Tendisai Cromwell University and college graduates, increasingly unable to find employment matching their education, are feeling the heat in the job market in these tough economic times. Rolla Tahir is a recent graduate facing difficulty finding a job suited to the four years she dedicated to Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. She is [...]
Read more...By Rachel Phan Tithing is considered mandatory by devout Christians, but the recession has caused many to question whether they can afford to give. For the devout, donating to the church should be a no-brainer. Every year, they donate 10 per cent of their net incomes to the church. Known as a tithe, these funds [...]
Read more...When Versace launched its line for H&M, some had goals that didn’t involve stocking their closets. by Tara MacInnis Salem Moussallam was in line with roughly 100 people at the Yorkdale Mall H&M on the evening of Nov. 18. He was waiting for a piece of Versace’s diffusion line for his customers– or rather, 40 pieces. [...]
Read more...Andrea Caceres Cahero dropped out of high school to enter the work force when her mother asked for financial help. By Melinda Maldonado The Mexican-born 23-year-old says moving from Monterrey, Mexico to Toronto at 16 was a rough transition. Studying in English at a new school was hard. Although there were many Spanish-speaking girls at [...]
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