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Wency Leung

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Amid a Staffing Crisis, Foreign-Trained Nurses Face Endless Barriers

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By Wency Leung Verified
| The Walrus Magazine Verified
This story was originally published by our friends at The Local, with the headline “Ontario Needs Nurses—Many Are Already Here, and Waiting to Practice.” It has been reprinted here with permission. In the summer of 2022, more than two years into the pandemic, staffing shortages at hospitals in Ontario, and across the country, had reached dangerous levels. Exhausted and overworked nurses were at their breaking point. Many were falling sick. Others were calling it quits.
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Cuts to Toronto Schools Are Carving into Bone

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By Wency Leung Verified
| The Walrus Magazine Verified
This story was originally published as “How Decades of Underfunding Eroded Toronto’s Schools” by our friends at The Local. It has been reprinted here with permission. Colleen Russell-Rawlins gently folded her arms and rested them on the table in front of her as she addressed the trustees of the Toronto District School Board one evening this June.
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First Nations, B.C. double old-growth protections in Clayoquot Sound | The Narwhal

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By Wency Leung Verified, Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
| The Narwhal Verified
News The Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations will now manage 760 square kilometres of old-growth conservancies with the help of philanthropic funding The forests of Clayoquot Sound became world famous as the battlegrounds of the decades-long “war in the woods” — and now, a vast swath of the rich old-growth trees are permanently protected.
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