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Young entrepreneur to do his own Google search
A few weeks ago, as Chintan Mistry sifted through the paperwork he needed to move into a new apartment, the reality of his situation hit him. He wasn’t just going to be moving to a new country in a couple of months. He was going to work within the bowels of one of the largest…
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Coffee with a cause
As the coffee industry booms, local shops are working hard to promote ethical business practices both in and out of their communities. Kingfisher Coffee Co., on Meadowbrook Drive, is a roasting company that has been donating one per cent of its coffee production to two homeless shelters since January. It’s a good way to “show them…
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Labour movement asks youth for help
Santiago Escobar is driving back from St. Catharines to Toronto. Riding shotgun is his friend and union colleague, Pablo Godoy, the national representative for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). They’re returning home from Brock University, where they spent the last 10 hours talking with 300 students about the plight of migrant…
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Oil battle rallies Canadian-Ecuadorian community
Canadians know oil and the controversy that follows it as well as they know hockey and poutine. And now that Neil Young’s cross-country tour is supporting a First Nation’s lawsuit against Shell, the flames are being fanned once again. Yet, what many Canadians may not know is that for more than 20 years, indigenous communities…