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At the beginning of last year, Monika Zerbe moved into a one-bedroom apartment in downtown Toronto. The 22-year-old was paying $1,450 a month for rent, something she thought was reasonable before the COVID-19 pandemic.  Read more: Alone and Apart — Canadians are feeling lonelier than ever She worked in the hospitality industry and when the

Like in the United States and the United Kingdom, the coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately affected Black and racialized communities in Canada. A Global News analysis in October last year found a strong association between Toronto’s neighbourhoods with a high number of coronavirus cases and those with a higher population of Black people. Read more: COVID-19

Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, has responded to a Times U.K. report claiming that she bullied aides and made them cry during her time at Kensington Palace as a working royal. In the report, published late Tuesday, The Times said that some unidentified sources approached the publication because they felt there was a side

Meghan Markle, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, is seeking 1.5 million pounds (C$2.6 million) in legal costs after she won a privacy claim against the Mail on Sunday which had printed extracts of a letter she wrote to her father. Last month, a judge at London’s High Court ruled the tabloid had breached her privacy and

What makes a potato a man or a woman? Is it the presence of a moustache — or is it simply a name for a spud? Hasbro is rebranding its decades-old line of Mr. Potato Head toys — including the separately-sold Mrs. Potato Head — to make them a single, gender-neutral doll with swappable limbs

Warning: This article may be triggering for some readers. Please read at your own discretion. Rebecca Adams was living by herself in London, U.K., when the pandemic first hit.  “My mental health was impacted almost immediately,” she says. “I would cry … I felt just so alone.” The broadcaster, originally from Australia, had started a

Prince Harry said he and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, stepped back from their royal duties because of the toll that British tabloids were taking on their mental health, in his first interview since the couple’s high-profile move to North America. “It was destroying my mental health,” Harry told British TV host James

Corporate Canada is moving at a glacial pace when it comes to gender and racial diversity at the leadership level, a new report finds. The Zero Report, released Tuesday, found 89 per cent of organizations surveyed had zero Black women in pipeline for executive officer roles – 91 per cent don’t have any Indigenous women

Big Brother Canada (BBCAN) will be returning to screens in March. On Wednesday, Global announced the ninth season will be making its debut on Wednesday, March 3 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Hosted by Arisa Cox, who is also one of the show’s executive producers, the show will feature a new cast of houseguests and challenges.

The accumulation of debt has been an ongoing hardship for many Canadians, whether it’s from things like losing a job in the pandemic or trying to repay student loans. Last year, Global News reported two-thirds of Canadians with debt could not keep up with their payments or had to make sacrifices in their budgets.  For