'They started crying:' Ontario international students finding it difficult to land work
CBC
Parimal Parikh says many international students he recently interviewed for a job at his South Asian grocery store were emotional.
Parikh owns Namaste Indian Supermarket in Windsor and was looking to hire for seven positions.
"They started crying and started explaining their financial crisis and what they were facing in Windsor," he said.
"They started crying when they didn't know the answers to the questions we were asking. And we tried our best to listen to them and try to comfort them."
Parikh says he posted the hiring call out via social media, expecting 60 to 100 people to show up.
What he ended up getting was nearly 400 people, some lining up 90 minutes before the interview period began, says Parikh.
"It got a little crazy," he said.
"We started working on the backups … instead of one interviewer we had two more interviewers."
Parikh says they were able to make time to see 250 applicants and he really appreciated how patient and understanding everyone was.
"I know that might be a lot, but I didn't want them to go disappointed that they didn't even get a chance to get into the interview after standing up to three hours in the line."
According to Parikh, the work situation for many international students in Windsor is much worse than some people might think.
"When you go deep down to the roots, it's very sad right now."
Kelsey Santarossa says her heart goes out to international students who are in a financial crisis — doing their best to secure work amidst heavy competition.
The manager of community projects for Workforce WindsorEssex says there isn't a specific unemployment rate for international students, calling it a "hard subset of our population to drill right down."
Run 3 Space | Play Space Running Game
Traffic Jam 3D | Online Racing Game
Duck Hunt | Play Old Classic Game
A man is dead after a house fire in Scarborough on Friday morning, Toronto police said.
They call it the big screen, but this movie theatre experience is pretty small.
Students at Charlottetown Rural High School are preparing to take the stage at the P.E.I. Brewing Company on Friday for their School of Rock 2025 Showcase.
Improper disposal of smoking materials was found to be the cause of a fire that displaced tenants of public housing from a Yellowknife apartment building in March.
Man who considered assisted death after bedsore tells coroner's inquiry 'you have to fight' for care
Among the dozens of people who testified at a coroner's inquiry into the death of Normand Meunier, Claude Labelle may be the only one who really understands what he went through.
As Toronto braces for another hotter than usual summer, some climate policy experts and advocates say a chief heat officer could help the city adapt to extreme temperatures faster.
The Ontario government's move to add 2,600 teacher college spaces will open 200 new entry slots to Western University's education program over the next two years.
In the aftermath of his younger brother's sudden death last year, Allan Oliver says he was surprised when a family friend set up a GoFundMe to help pay for the funeral.
While the future of the stalled Bay du Nord project has yet to be decided, an Equinor Canada representative says there are positive signs for the project's future, including a major contract that the oil giant will award in the next few months.
Halifax councillors have heard new details about a proposed hydro energy storage project at a former gold mine in the municipality.
New Brunswickers might have noticed a haze in the sky over the last couple of days.
Quebec Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge said he isn't ruling out the possibility of cutting services for non-permanent residents in the province if the federal government fails to halve its annual immigration targets.
Wildfires continue to rage out of control in northern Saskatchewan, and have now burned almost 1,000,000 hectares of the province's forest so far this year and forced thousands of people from their homes.