The number of Canadians who speak other than English and French as their first language have increased in 2021.
It has risen to 4.6 million or around 13 percent of the population. Also, 25 percent of Canadians master at least 1 other language, aside from English or French, as among their first languages.
This growth occurred as a result of the recent addition to Canada’s population of people who speak Asian languages, specifically Hindi, Punjabi, and Mandarin. According to the numbers, Canadians who converse…
When a single mother in Toronto borrows a $300 loan at RadCred to cover an unexpected childcare expense, paying back $390 two weeks later, she enters a financial arrangement that economists might explain through interest rates and market demand. But sociology reveals a different story: one of structural inequality, social exclusion, and the monetization of poverty itself.
Payday loans in Canada represent far more than emergency credit. They function as visible markers of deepening social stratification, where approximately 1.9 million Canadians annually access these high-cost …
