North America

International students in the US face many challenges as they adjust to new cultural norms.

Chaplains open doors for international students on campus

Sacred Nation

When international students arrive to study in the US, life can be harder than expected. Some universities have found that religious chaplains can help students make the transition. While mental health is stigmatized in some countries, spiritual care is not. As a result, student chaplains have become de facto front-line mental health care providers. 

Once the epicenter of hydraulic engineering, Mexico City is now running out of water

Environment

Toronto is experiencing a car theft epidemic

Migrants say crossing Mexico has become increasingly challenging

Migration
The Red Dress night honored murdered and missing Indigenous women, and girls, Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ people in Canada and worldwide.

They call her a ‘Mountain Mover’ — Founder of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week revolutionizes the runway

Fashion
A group of runners carrying staffs and smile for a group shot

‘Spirit Run’: A new memoir details one man’s journey to reconnect with nature and his Indigenous heritage

Books

In his memoir, “Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land,” Noe Álvarez shares how the communal run helped him reclaim a relationship with the land and reconnect with his parents’ migration and life of labor in the agricultural fields of the northwest.

With Canadian and Haitian flags hoisted, marchers take part in demonstration in support of asylum-seekers working in Quebec's long-term care homes in Montreal, Canada, in June.

Canada is granting residency to some asylum-seekers working in pandemic health care

Immigration

Earlier this month, Canada’s immigration minister Marco Mendicino announced that the country will grant permanent residency to some asylum-seekers who have been working in institutions hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic: hospitals and long-term care homes.

A group of dairy cows stand in a caged area inside a farm

Can this radical approach to dairies save US farms?

Canada’s practice of limiting milk production ensures a stable market for its dairy farmers. It’s also being touted as a potential solution to the US dairy crisis.

Children stand next to a banner against the US President's proposed end of the DACA program

Thousands of immigrants with ‘protected status’ face possible deportation

Justice

Trump administration deciding fate of those allowed in years ago due to war, natural disasters.

Protesters gather to rally against US President Donald Trump's firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey, outside the White House in Washington, DC. May 10, 2017.

Trump says he will make ‘fast decision’ on Comey replacement

Justice

President Donald Trump said Saturday he would act quickly to appoint a new FBI director following his controversial dismissal earlier this week of James Comey — a move that was still reverberating around Washington.