Photo by Yeshi Kangrang on Unsplash Investors now make up 25 per cent of the housing market, making it harder for average incomepeople to own a home. According to CBC Radio, with house prices consistently rising, many Canadians are worried that owning a home is just a dream these days. Garrett McPhee has been trying…
The front steps of the Sheldon & Tracy Levy Student Learning Centre in Toronto are normally scattered with students reading, chatting and hanging out with their friends. Today because of the COVID-19 pandemic they are completely empty. (JRN News/Holly Koch-Nobbs) After 19 months of online-classes, students at X University are preparing to make a full…
By Bana Yirgalem This video discusses a person’s journey of social media and its impacts on her mental health, the disadvantages, and the advantages. She also ends with 5 tips on how to have a good relationship with social media so you don’t hurt your mental health. (Youtube/Psych Hub) According to a study from Canadian…
Musicians perform among neon lights and fog in Athens, Greece (Unsplash/Yannis Papanastasopoulos) By Hannah Mercanti According to some musicians, the initial struggle to adapt to a fully online environment now makes for new, innovative methods of performance. According to a study from Statistics Canada, the sound recording industry suffered the least during the pandemic, yet…
Headphones sit on top of a microphone stand (Unsplash/Paulette Wooten) By Patrick Pearson August 26, 2020. At a time when the second wave of COVID-19 was just ahead, Annika Devlin began writing a song called September, which would spawn her project Frown Line. This project gave her an outlet to channel her feelings and a…
By Charlotte Pottier-Bonneville The Canadian journalism industry is struggling and has been for many years. The pandemic and the disappearance of advertising funds are only making it worst for journalists to survive. The Canadian journalism advertising market was amongst the hardest hit in the world in 2020, according to the Reuters Institute However, new sources…
(Istock) By Danielle Reid For many small businesses in Canada, the COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating impact, some being forced to close permanently, but for some local thrift stores that were able to adapt to the new normal, the pandemic has allowed their businesses to thrive. According to the Small Business Poll conducted by RBC,…
TTC streetcar, with people walking around it and the CN Tower in the background. (Niamat Ullah/Unsplash) By Caleb Lariviere Transportation services in the city of Toronto over 2020 and 2021 have been seriously impactedby the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the most impacted services was the TTC, which has stated in a report that they were…
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The communal grief caused by the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many artists and gallery owners such as poet Yasmeen Nematt Alla and artist and gallery owner Laureen Marchand to reevaluate the accessibility of their artistic spaces. In the wake of COVID-19, many artists have turned to showcasing their art virtually on social…