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The employment situation in Canada has been disappointing, with only 22,000 jobs added in August. A video of a long queue of job seekers, mostly Indian students, outside a restaurant went viral, shedding light on the extent of the crisis. The video shows thousands of students waiting to be interviewed for service staff/waiter positions at a restaurant called Tandoori Flame. Many of these students have been in Canada for three years and have struggled to find suitable employment. In addition, a techie working for Infosys as an SAP specialist in Toronto, Canada, shared that his salary of CAD 115,000 (about Rs 70 lakh) was not sufficient to survive in the country. This viral video drew attention to the high cost of living and rent in Canada. This job-queue video comes at a time when Canada is...

A 37-year-old woman named Su Qin has been fined S$5,000 (about Rs 3.26 lakh) by a Singapore court for forging a medical certificate to get hospitalization leave from her job as a software developer. Originally from China, Su was under significant emotional and financial stress because of her mother’s worsening health. This pressure led her to make the poor decision to forge the document. Su altered a genuine medical certificate she had from a previous visit. She changed the hospital’s name to St. Luke’s Hospital and modified the dates to show she was hospitalized from 23 March to 3 April 2024. She also blurred the QR code on the certificate. By doing this, Su was able to take nine days off work and received S$3,541.15 in salary during that period. Her forgery was uncovered when she resigne...