International students are being pushed to the brink during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the mounting pressures have led to a rise in death by suicide cases across Canada, according to a report by the nonprofit One Voice Canada.“It’s a culture shock.
They come into Canada, it’s a whole different system, the social aspect, the education system is different,” One Voice Canada, co-founder and director at Agrihotri Immigration Consulting in Surrey, told Global News.
Canada’s expanded travel restrictions too costly, say international students “Usually the international students coming into Canada do not have support.
Some of them do, some of them, don’t.”The report highlights what it calls a disturbing trend of death by suicide cases across.