Mohammad Khosravani moved to Canada to kick-start a career in AI. But the job market has been tight, and he's thinking about leaving.
Why International Students Are Packing Their Bags | International students are having trouble finding work. The youth employment rate is hovering at around 12 to 13 per cent, and many of the hundreds of thousands of young people who arrived in Canada over the last few years are struggling. Mohammad Khosravani came to Canada from Iran on a full scholarship to study machine learning and artificial intelligence at Lakehead University. He had high hopes at first but now that he’s graduated, he can’t get a job. He has applied to dozens of roles with no luck. He’s not sure if he should take a minimum-wage gig or move to the United States to access more job opportunities in his field. And he’s running out of money. “Many immigrant students in my department, including a few from Iran, are also struggling to find jobs in their field,” he writes in Maclean’s. His story reflects a common experience this spring. “I was offered a scholarship to get an education here, but now that I’m at the critical stage of launching my career, I can’t give back. I feel like I’ve been cut adrift.” –Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief | | | |
| FIRST PERSON | Life in the Age of Drought | Merritt, a 7,000-person city in the B.C. Interior, has been under level three water restrictions since April. To cope, Leanne Cleaveley and her husband collect grey water, limit baths and use a drip irrigation system at home. Usually, at this time of year, the community is just entering level one—which leaves Cleaveley anxious about what the upcoming summer will bring. “It’s not just the drought I fear, but wildfires and flooding, too,” she writes in this essay for Maclean’s. | | |
| FROM THE JUNE 2024 ISSUE | Sober Nation | More Canadians are rethinking their relationships with alcohol, whether taking a night, a week or a month off—or dropping it completely. Montreal-based writer Caitlin Walsh Miller is one of them. In an interview on CBC’s The Current, she told host Matt Galloway that she isn’t cutting alcohol out entirely—just becoming more mindful of what she chooses to drink. Luckily for her, bars and restaurants are offering plentiful non-alcoholic cocktails, beer and even wine. From our June 2024 issue, read her feature on why it’s never been cooler (or easier) to go alcohol-free. | | |
| A Rock Titan’s Renaissance | | Alt-rock queen Alanis Morissette brings together three generations of disruptive women rockers for her Triple Moon tour: Nashville’s fast-rising star Morgan Wade, punk pioneer Joan Jett (and her Blackhearts, of course) and Morissette herself. The wild threesome is an exciting encore to Morissette’s last victory lap, the Toronto opening of her Tony-winning jukebox musical Jagged Little Pill. All this while Morissette characteristically and continuously riffs on genres: in recent years she’s released a chamber-pop record called Such Pretty Forks in the Road, a meditation album titled The Storm Before the Calm and even an LP of Christmas covers. | | |
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