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Nearly a quarter of Canada's population, 23 percent, are immigrants, according to data released Wednesday by Statistics Canada. The last time Canada had such a high percentage of immigrants was a hundred years ago.more

People's inability to afford essential hygiene products is leaving many too ashamed to go to work, a charity says. more

The energy crisis is pushing more households onto prepayment gas and electricity meters, research suggests.more

Americans are increasingly less optimistic about the future of youth. If in 2019 60 percent believed that young people would have a better life than their parents, today it is only 42 percent.more

Britons are pinning higher - though not excessively high - hopes on the person of new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak than they had for his predecessor Liz Truss, but the number of those who want early elections has increased, according to two polls released yesterday.more

Around one in five girls and young women do not feel safe in UK schools, according to a new survey. more

Maternity services in England have deteriorated to their lowest level, the hospitals regulator has said, as it expressed “deep concerns” about the quality of care given to mothers and babies.more

Britons buy more new items of clothing each year than people living in any other country in Europe. The average Briton owns 76 items of clothing, but throws away 72 of them each year, reports the " Telegraph" daily.more

Most Poles will blame the government for the lack of money from the European Union, according to a poll commissioned by "Rzeczpospolita," published Saturday on the newspaper's website.more

Thousands of protesters have marched through central London calling for the UK to rejoin the EU. The national rejoin march on Saturday saw large crowds of people walk from Park Lane to Parliament Square. Marchers from across the UK travelled for hours to attend.more

A Russian IT worker has been hiding in the woods for a month ahead of mobilization for the war in Ukraine, writes independent portal Mediazona. In the wilderness, the programmer has two tents: one for sleeping, the other for working.more

The value of discounts on electricity bills for households that cut peak-time use is to be raised, National Grid ESO has said.more

British government ministers are being taken to court by a body chaired by the former leader of the Conservatives in the EU parliament, over allegations the government is breaking the law on EU citizens’ rights post-Brexit.more

More than one in 10 Dutch households has more than €100,000 in savings, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported. The Dutch saved nearly €362 billion last year, €32 billion more than in 2020.more

38 percent of employed Poles are actively looking for a new employer, and 57 percent of those looking for a new job are motivated by low wages, according to yesterday's information from Pracuj.pl's "Jobs in Times of Change" survey.more

The survey, conducted by insurance company Pronova BKK, shows that most Germans choose to go to work despite illness. This is the case even in the case of a coronavirus infection, the Spiegel daily portal wrote on Monday.more

The number of children arriving at school hungry has risen dramatically in the last six months, with many teachers reporting a worrying rise in pupils stealing to eat, according to a survey of teachers in England. more

"Top secret" scenarios have been leaked to the British media, the purpose of which is to calm the British people if there are power cuts this winter. The leak came after the government's National Grid body issued a rare warning that energy could run out this winter.more

The number of people who aren’t working because of caring commitments is the highest since May 2020, with the last year marking a sustained increase in stay-at-home parents and carers after three decades of decline, new analysis from the Guardian reveals. more

There are now 907,000 people on hospital waiting lists, including more than 85,000 children waiting for their first hospital appointment despite efforts to reduce waiting times.more

More than half of employees admit that inflation influences their career decisions. Every fifth decided to work part-time, 13 percent. earns extra thanks to overtime, and 10 percent. asked for a raise - according to the 49th edition of the Labor Market Monitor of the Randstad Research Institute.more

According to the data published today by Barclaycard, UK citizens, in order to keep up with rising energy bills, are increasingly giving up their evening pub crawl and taking lunch with them when they go to work so as not to spend money in a restaurant.more

The CT ruling on abortion has reduced willingness to have children and increased intergenerational and gender polarization, according to the latest United Surveys survey for DGP and RMF FM.more

The march against high prices and in defense of the climate in Paris gathered around 140,000 people. people - say the organizers of the protest: trade unions and leftist France Nieujarzmiona (LFI). The left-wing Nupes bloc is trying to consolidate public discontent under the banners of the LFI.more

The waiting list for hospital treatment has hit a record high of seven million in England, latest figures show. But a BBC analysis shows the rise is being driven by the inability of hospitals to get back to full strength rather than lots more demand.more