When grocery stores ran out of your favourite cereal, you wonder if this is a temporary issue with delayed shipments or is the flavour discontinued? It may not come as a surprise to many when empty grocery shelves in Canada is the outcome of yet another side-effect of the COVID-19
This week India celebrated the milestone of administering 1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses with a rather elaborate fanfare. The Indian government promoted this achievement with celebrations including song and dance, but the focus stayed on the number of doses and not the number of recipients. While the number is surely
The rise of far-right populist groups is not a new thing for Canada, yet most people either refuse to acknowledge it or think that it is not a matter of concern. When the Liberals held a snap election in the hopes to gain a majority, the People’s Party of Canada
Gun violence is a tragedy that many have lived through in their daily lives or encountered an incident including gun violence as a child. It is not just the terror of experiencing an attack but the experience of being stripped of the right to live. The perpetrators of gun violence
The world was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic back in 2020, bringing down travel, businesses, daily activities, and, most importantly, the global healthcare system in a matter of weeks. While everyone struggled to survive, the research and development community raced against time to work on a vaccine. This vaccine became
“Southern Madagascar is the only place in the world with famine-like conditions that are NOT driven by conflict, but the #ClimateEmergency,” tweeted United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). The island state off the Eastern African coast is experiencing alarming levels of starvation, which was described as
All was lost the moment Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani fled, leading to the collapse of the Western-backed government in the country. Taliban fighters took control of Kabul and almost all of the remaining country in a matter of days. While the Biden administration and other world leaders are arguing over
India has been under the radar for possibly under-reporting the number of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in the past year. According to a new study, the death toll in India can be as high as 4.9 million in excess increasing the global official death tally. The report by the
Women in Afghanistan have taken to the streets in growing numbers as an act of defiance against the increasing Taliban control in the country. These Afghan women marched with assault rifles and shared pictures of themselves on social media calling on the attention of both national and international media. These
Early this week, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Myanmar Tom Andrews stated that the Myanmar military junta’s “brutal, indiscriminate attacks” threaten thousands of men, women, and children in the Kayah State. With a population of about 350,000-400,000, the Kayah State, also known as the Karenni State located in eastern Myanmar,
