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With the councillor facing charges, five low-profile challengers in Ward 21 — Scarborough Centre are hoping to break through the inertia of incumbency.

Before it all came to a head—before she started crying, screaming, and pulling out chunks of her hair—the pandemic had taken one good thing after another from the five-year-old girl we’ll call Sriya.

On a Monday afternoon in early July, I receive a phone call from a hiring manager I’ve never met. He’s seen my resume on LinkedIn and is looking for help at his Yorkville restaurant—a full-time server, five shifts a week. Over the phone, he sounds jovial, but there’s a tinge …

For this Indigenous focused issue—with an all-Indigenous roster of incredible writers, photographers, and artists—I was hoping that we could create something that was grounded in what the Indigenous experience is like today, without the need to tap into the trauma that so often accompanies stories about us.

In the middle of a pandemic, with multiple crises devastating their community, Nanook Gordon and Brianna Olson Pitawanakwat started a grassroots organization to bring compassion, aid, and culture to Indigenous people on Toronto’s streets.

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Whether it's in the supermarket, gym or office, microaggressions against marginalised people are happening every day in Germany. Will this change anytime soon?

Coronavirus fatigue has hit many in Germany, and it's lead to less solidarity more of stress as the country entered a stricter lockdown this week, writes Barbara Woolsey.

The coronavirus pandemic has pushed a record number of Germans into Home Office. But many are eager to get back into their productivity swing in a traditional workplace.

Since implementing a noise reduction program at her hospital five years ago, Soong is particularly attuned to the dips and peaks of hospital volume. She knows that the noise problem at hospitals is a serious one. More than just an annoyance for patients and staff, excessive noise can lead to …

Three weeks ago, Maria Isabel Gilbert felt so exhausted she needed to lie down on the couch. Over the next few hours, she developed a fever. The next few days brought a headache, dry throat, diarrhea, and chills. “I thought, ‘Oh boy, this is it,’” says Gilbert. This, of course, …

Anyone who lives in one of Germany’s larger cities will be aware that rents have been rising sharply in recent years. But what is causing this surge and what can be done? We talked to one of the country’s leading specialists on the rental market to get some answers.

As much as German never quite seems to work as a language of modern pop, hearing it in the baroque turns out to be a transcendental experience.

West Hill is a quiet neighbourhood nestled between the branches of the Highland creek in east Scarborough, bounded by the elite Scaroboro Golf and Country Club to the west and Lake Ontario to the south. In the 1950s and 60s, middle-class families drawn by the area’s affordable houses and rural …

One of the biggest challenges of moving to rural France is the task of making friends with the French locals, something seen as essential to helping new arrivals settle. Here are some tips from those who have done it. Settling into an antique stone and timber home overlooking vineyards or …

The Scottish-born mayor of a town in northern Germany is being forced to step down when Brexit happens. He told us about his journey from a small Highland village to regional entrepreneur.

Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday to fire off two tweets about the “tenuous” state of politics in Germany. Not for the first time, he showed his ignorance of developments in German society.

In a conference room in Dokk1, Aarhus’ flagship public library, dozens of women in niqab on Sunday gathered to speak about and against a proposed law which is likely to ban their attire.

It was roughly a month ago that I realized that I’d become more German than British. I’d just changed my name on Facebook so that it was unrecognizable to anyone who I didn't tell about the change.

The French regularly challenge Americans as the world's biggest scoffers of pizzas but why in the land of haute cuisine and great gastronomy do they eat so much of it? Here are a few reasons.

Ten digits printed on the front of a yellow card: your birthdate plus four other numbers. The CPR number is your pass to many services in Denmark, but how far can you get without it?

If and when a German government is finally welded together, it will be more or less half a year since the election. With populist parties waiting in the wings, the future of German politics as we know it looks ever less certain.

Forcing newcomers to Denmark to pay for language lessons could mean a reduction in student numbers and job losses for teachers, say administrators and students at the national Lærdansk language programme.

Once you land an au pair job in France, you might imagine a future of working with adorable well-behaved children and spending your ample free time having adventures around Europe. But that's not the whole story.

At a popular cafe in central Berlin, Alice Weidel is explaining how the teachings of Confucius influence everything in modern Chinese society from the failure of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, to the recent execution of a police chief on graft charges...