Sadiya Ansari

Building and classroom safety measures in the Maanjiwe Nendamowinan building at the UofT Mississauga Campus (Nick Iwanyshyn/University of Toronto)
College

Can Canada’s universities survive COVID?

Fewer international students, half-full residences, shuttered food services and empty parking lots add up to devastating revenue losses. And public funding has fallen over the past decade. Universities are in for a reckoning.
Migrant workers wear masks and practice social distancing to help slow the spread of coronavirus while trimming red cabbage at Mayfair Farms in Portage la Prairie, M.B., in April 2020 (Shannon VanRaes/Reuters)
Canada

Pick our fruit, get COVID-19

Sadiya Ansari: Canada’s immigration system doesn’t provide citizenship paths to so-called ’unskilled’ labour, fails to recognize their worth and, as a result, fails to protect them