High cost of living has international students in Canada turning to the sex trade

[kevinUsa]

Canadians are well aware that the cost of living is becoming untenable. 

 

We see prices go up every time we’re at the grocery store, we know that waitlists for affordable housing units can be seven to 10 years long, and we scroll real estate or rental listings the same way we open the fridge and hope that better food will have materialized than when we last checked half an hour ago. 

 

Not to mention, we pay the highest telecommunication rates in the world. 

 

However, many Canada-bound international students either missed the memo, were misled by crooked immigration agents, or, have decided that they’d rather assume our affordability problems than the problems in their home country. 

 

According to reports from the Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women, a Toronto-based nonprofit organization, female international students – mostly of South Asian origin – are turning to prostitution to pay their high rents and costly tuition fees. 

[kevinUsa]

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