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City to hand transit riders worrisome fare increase in 2025

Despite Statistics Canada indicating slowing inflation for public transit fares, the City of Ottawa is considering significant fare hikes, increased property taxes and service cuts as it debates the budget for 2025. Those impending increases concern Ayesha Khan, a fourth-year student at Carleton University. She lives in Orléans and uses public transit to get to school. She is worried about...
Canada

Young immigrants finding it tougher to land a job than their Canadian-born counterparts

After uprooting his life in Saudi Arabia and relocating to Canada, Omar Hussein spent two years of his teenage life handing out resumes anywhere he could.  Hussein arrived in Canada with his family in 2018 at 15. By 2020, 17 year old Omar got his a permit and was ready to search for work.  Hoping to find a source of...
Canada

“It’s worrying:” Unemployment rate for young immigrants more than doubles in past year

It took eight months for Abyssinnia Abebe to find a job. Abebe, from Ethiopia originally, is now a permanent resident in Canada. Even with that status, the 20 year old immigrant university student, says she applied to more than 150 jobs within that eight-month period.  The struggle to find a job is not a unique problem. Unemployment among immigrants aged...