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Mohsin

@devdevelopermohsinJune 17 at 12:18 PM

There’s no denying that right now is a difficult time to be an international student. With the interruption of classes, student residencies shutting down, an overwhelmed social system and forced self-isolation, we know that this must be an especially trying time for those who are far from home. We have created this guide in hopes of helping international students living in Canada keep up to date and navigate the support systems available to them.
Coming to Canada as an International Student:
The initial threat of COVID-19 saw Canada shutting its borders to all non-essential travel. However, shortly thereafter the government announced that borders would remain open for international students who held a valid study permit, or had been approved for a study permit, when the travel restrictions took effect on March 18, 2020.
In addition to their study permit, international students will still need to obtain valid travel documents in order to enter Canada, such as a Temporary Resident Visa (TRV) or an Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA).

International students are being urged not to make any plans until they have met all requirements and received the necessary authorization.

The Canadian government is advising people to avoid all non-essential travel outside the country.

International students wishing to return home may do so but should consider whether their home country will allow them to enter, whether they will be able to re-enter Canada in the future, and how this may affect their eligibility to apply for a Post-Graduate Work Permit.

Student residences across the country have closed down in an effort to protect the student population and flatten the curve. Some residences may make exceptions for international students, or help you to find other accommodations. #mypost

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Mohsin

@devdevelopermohsinJune 15 at 11:19 AM

Lego reconstructions of pop videos and cakes baked in the shape of iPods are not generally considered relevant to serious political debate. But even the most earnest bloggers will often take time out of their busy schedule to pass on some titbit of mildly entertaining geek ephemera. No one has done more to promote pointless, yet strangely cool, time-wasting stuff on the net than the editors of Boing Boing (subtitle: A Directory of Wonderful Things). It launched in January 2000 and has had an immeasurable influence on the style and idiom of blogging. But hidden among the pictures of steam-powered CD players and Darth Vader tea towels there is a steely, ultra-liberal political agenda: championing the web as a global medium free of state and corporate control.

Boing Boing chronicles cases where despotic regimes have silenced or imprisoned bloggers. It helped channel blogger scorn on to Yahoo and Google when they kowtowed to China's censors in order to win investment opportunities. It was instrumental in exposing the creeping erosion of civil liberties in the US under post-9/11 'Homeland Security' legislation. And it routinely ridicules attempts by the music and film industries to persecute small-time file sharers and bedroom pirates instead of getting their own web strategies in order. It does it all with gentle, irreverent charm, polluted only occasionally with gratuitous smut.

Their dominance of the terrain where technology meets politics makes the Boing Boing crew geek aristocracy. #mypost

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