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Food delivery is essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to order it ethically. Restaurants and food businesses don’t just feed us.

Food delivery is essential during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to order it ethically

Our regular spots offer pleasure, kinship and familiarity. Covid-19 Pushes Fashion Design Schools Into an Increasingly Digital Future. Covid-19 has created a first-of-its-kind challenge for fashion design schools and colleges: How can they teach practical, hands-on courses online?

Covid-19 Pushes Fashion Design Schools Into an Increasingly Digital Future

Top colleges around the globe have suspended classes and are transitioning to remote teaching. But distance learning isn't easy for students who learn by making and need access to studios and workshops. As instructors in the US and UK scramble to rework their curriculum while keeping student morale high, professors in China share stories of creative responses to the rapidly evolving situation.

Fashion Industry Coronavirus: COVID-19's Impact on Canadian Designers. Distance Learning: The Ultimate Guide to Online Learning. By Becton Loveless “Earn a college degree in your pajamas!”

Distance Learning: The Ultimate Guide to Online Learning

“Get your bachelor’s without leaving the house!” “Study wherever and however you want!” Higher ed has been marketing online courses and degree programs like this for years now. Online programs are more flexible than the traditional residential university experience. COVID-19: How digital learning solutions are taking shape - ITU News. By ITU News Like many other industries, the education sector has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19: How digital learning solutions are taking shape - ITU News

As of last week, 165 countries had closed schools nationwide, impacting over 1.5 billion children and youth, according to UNESCO (The United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization). There is also still great uncertainty as to when schools will reopen. Thankfully, these days, there are many free (or low-cost), easy-to-use digital communication tools that allow for a range of remote learning solutions. For now, teachers, students and families are still grappling with the immediate task of conducting online classes and remote learning, in the confinement of their homes. So what are the options available? Digital learning solutions There is also a list of national learning platforms and tools. Lebanon’s Ministry of Education app in Arabic, English and French and can be shared with up to six family members. What Moms Always Knew About Working From Home. I vividly remember conducting a phone interview from my office late one evening when my children were young.

What Moms Always Knew About Working From Home

I could hear as the person I was speaking to turned on a kitchen sink, opened their refrigerator, and clinked bowls and dishes as they made dinner. My heart ached. The impact of COVID-19 on the people who make our clothes. As it happens: We’re updating this article frequently, as new information emerges about the impact of COVID-19 on supply chain workers around the world, and adding new fundraising appeals to help support workers.

The impact of COVID-19 on the people who make our clothes

Click here for the latest updates. As the world faces this pandemic in unified isolation, we at Fashion Revolution are focusing on how the unfolding situation is affecting the people who make our clothes. Billie Eilish on 'When The Party's Over' meaning and music video. Billie Eilish‘s gruesome video for ‘When The Party’s Over’ is a staggering, and, er, eye watering watch.

Billie Eilish on 'When The Party's Over' meaning and music video

In it, the 17-year-old drinks a dark, gloopy liquid, which quickly comes tumbling out of her eyes, to make for a stream of bleak tears as the song reaches its emotional crescendo. Matching the music’s emotional hold is something Billie had always hoped to match. Sherah Sherah Style Inspirations: 10 Goth Girls of Instagram Worthy of a Follow %article_desc% Are you sick and tired of the usual unicorn colored, bikini-clad, and selfie crowded Instagram feed?Worry no more, because we found the most dazzling gothic gir. Are you sick and tired of the usual unicorn colored, bikini-clad, and selfie crowded Instagram feed?

Sherah Sherah Style Inspirations: 10 Goth Girls of Instagram Worthy of a Follow %article_desc% Are you sick and tired of the usual unicorn colored, bikini-clad, and selfie crowded Instagram feed?Worry no more, because we found the most dazzling gothic gir

Worry no more, because we found the most dazzling gothic girls of Instagram to quench your inner darkness. Here is a great selection of gothic influencers to follow on Instagram to sustain your alternative fashion aesthetic. How to cope with eco-anxiety about climate change - Calm Moment. Cast your mind back to the heatwave of February 2019.

How to cope with eco-anxiety about climate change - Calm Moment

Amidst the suncream, ginger beer and ice lollies, was there a creeping sense at the back of your mind that something wasn’t quite right? Do you feel devastated when another species goes extinct, or angry when politicians continue to subsidise fossil fuels? If so, you may be suffering from eco-anxiety, a newly-coined psychological disorder afflicting those with anxiety rooted in the environmental crisis. ReeRee Phillips (@reereephilliips) 19 Most Notable Alternative Subcultures & Trends In the Last Decade. Looks like subcultures are pretty much dead and all we have left are niche aesthetics.

19 Most Notable Alternative Subcultures & Trends In the Last Decade

Take the internet, or more precisely – Tumblr trends for example. New micro-trends are constantly emerging through blogs and memes, and some of them come to life on fashion items. The South Korean teens so addicted to phones they're going into detox. The South Korean high school student knew she had a problem, so she enrolled in a government-run camp for teenagers who can't put their phones down. "Even when I knew in my head I should stop using my smartphone, I just kept going," Yoo said.

"I couldn't stop, so I'd be on it until dawn. " More than a third of Quebec teenagers are in psychological distress: study. MONTREAL -- A study on the well-being of young Quebecers reveals that more than a third of them aged 15 to 17 have a high level of psychological distress. The study released Thursday by the Fondation Jeunes en Tete also found that more than one in two young people said they felt sad or depressed in the last month, and that girls were almost twice as likely as boys to report experiencing psychological distress. Catherine Burrows, director of youth services at the organization, noted that in some areas the study revealed that teens are doing better than before, while for others the opposite is true.

The study also found that concerted actions by the various stakeholders in the lives of young people, such as schools, health professionals or the government, can have promising and lasting effects on them. The study was conducted at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) by the Observatoire Jeunes et Société (OJS). Guidance Counselling. The guidance counsellor is responsible for the delivery of professional services ensuring the optimal psycho-social, educational and vocational development of secondary and adult students. These services include counselling, evaluation, consultation, provision of information and liaison and referral activities. Counselling On the basis of individual or group counselling sessions as well as the results of tests, the counsellor counsels students on their individual orientation whether they be personal; conflict with parents, peers or teachers, educational; selection of a post-secondary program or school, or vocational; aptitude and interest exploration and development of career goals.

Extinction: Mazatl, Visiting Artist. Eco-anxiety spurs youth to take action on climate change. This story is part of a CBC News series titled In Our Backyard, which looks at the effects climate change is having in Canada, from extreme weather events to how it's reshaping our economy. Emma Lim, 18, announced this week that she's not going to have children until governments take serious action on climate change. The movement she launched spurred thousands more across Canada to make a similar promise called the No Future pledge. "My generation is facing a future of economic instability, food scarcity, extreme weather events, and we, the children, are desperate," the McGill University student said at a news conference in Ottawa on Monday.

Lim and other young people around the world are trying to get their voices heard. Eco Anxiety: How is it shaping consumer behaviour? - Trend-Monitor. All the Bright Places (2020) Greta Thunberg meets Malala Yousafzai at Oxford University. How brands are redefining influencer marketing with dark social. Billie Eilish - when the party's over. The future of fashion: Pulp-It. Toronto upset after clothing store chain tosses unsold items in garbage. Bottesford's Friendly Bench wins National Lottery Backing.

BBC News - Takeaway reduces plastic waste with steel tiffins. Canada's 1st 'presumptive' case of coronavirus found in Toronto. If Women Ruled the World, What Would They Wear? Christian Dior - Fashion exhibition at the McCord Museum.


  1. rafaely Mar 15 2020
    Billie Eilish on how she made the gruesome ‘When The Party’s Over’ video "I just do, I don’t know why I do it, but I do it. I just love pain. I’ve always loved pain. I love being uncomfortable.” (Billie Eilish)
  2. rafaely Mar 15 2020
    How to cope with eco-anxiety about climate change
  3. rafaely Mar 9 2020
    The Goth Youtuber @reereephillips As an avid goth, Ree is the influencer to follow to ace the Victorian and Modern goth look. Her pale complexion and her extravagant makeup look make her an instant Morticia Addams look alike. Everything from the tips of her hair to the ends of her toe is a wonderfully curated goth ensemble.
  4. rafaely Mar 9 2020
    The teenagers so addicted to cellphones they're going to detox centers South Korea is not the only country where teenagers are hooked on phones -- worries are growing about excessive smartphone use worldwide. Over time, internet addicts can become socially isolated and suffer symptoms of withdrawal including "feelings of anger, tension, anxiety and/or depression," according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
  5. rafaely Mar 9 2020
    More than a third of Quebec teenagers are in psychological distress: study Health and Social Services Minister Danielle McCann announced that her government would invest $40 million to improve youth mental health services and reduce waiting lists. A forum called Jeunes et sante mentale (Youth and Mental Health), bringing together some 200 experts, researchers, physicians, mentally ill youth and their families, was held recently in Quebec City.
  6. rafaely Mar 9 2020
    English Montreal School Board The EMSB offers academic guidance, counselling, physical health and social support through our Student Services Department and with our university, hospital and social services partners.
  7. rafaely Mar 9 2020
    Eco Anxiety: How is it shaping consumer behaviour? The Ethical Consumer Market Report 2018 reveals that sales of ethical clothing grew 19.9% and second-hand clothing grew 22.5% between 2016 and 2017. Feelings of helplessness - emotion vs. activism
  8. rafaely Feb 26 2020
    Greta Thunberg meets Malala Yousafzai at Oxford University Interesting meeting - The world is in the hands of young people, But only two won't make it! But surely the seed is being planted