by Monica Kidd | 22 Apr 2022 | Climate change, Decoders, Economy, Environment, Eyewitness, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows
I am interested in carbon credits — permits that offset greenhouse emissions. So I bought a tonne of carbon. Here’s what I learned. (Photo courtesy of Cory Willis of Willis Farms, Inc. in Tennessee, United States) Anyone with a credit card and the inclination...
by Anthony Fong | 6 Apr 2022 | Conflict, Europe, Eyewitness, Immigration, Personal Reflections, Refugees, Ukraine
I’m a medic with a team helping Ukrainian refugees who are fleeing their country. Tonight, we hope we’ve given one young man a chance to survive. The author (bottom left) and colleagues from the Canadian Medical Assistant Team at the Krakovets border...
by Helen Womack | 30 Mar 2022 | Conflict, Europe, Eyewitness, Immigration, Refugees, Ukraine
Ukrainian refugees come to Anastasia in Hungary for a night or two before moving on. This Russian is helping refugees while war rages at home. Anastasia at home in Budapest, Hungary (photo by Helen Womack) Anastasia’s phone is constantly ringing. She is at the heart...
by Jonathan Sharp | 16 Feb 2022 | China, Europe, Eyewitness, Politics, Sport, United States
Fewer than four decades ago, an emerging China joined its first Olympic Games. Like today, geopolitics loomed large at the Los Angeles event. Members of the Chinese Olympic team line up before the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, 28 July...
by Li Keira Yin | 29 Nov 2021 | China, Discovery, Eyewitness, Identity, Personal Reflections, Politics, Student Posts, Thacher School, Youth Voices
Curious about my family’s roots, I visited a remote region of China where minority Uighurs celebrated and laughed despite repression and a pandemic. Uighur Women in Procession at Sunrise, Kashgar, July 2021 (All photos by Li Keira Yin) I took these photos on a...