Ahmar Khan
About Ahmar Khan
Ahmar Khan is a journalist based out of Toronto, Ontario, who covers politics, race, sports and inequality across Canada. Khan has bylines in Yahoo News, Politico, the Toronto Star and previously worked for CBC and CTV as a reporter and producer at the local and national levels. Khan attended journalism school at British Columbia Institute of Technology, and he speaks Urdu, Punjabi and English.
Whitehorse looks to battery storage to unplug from diesel
Yukon's capital is banking on battery storage and better transit to kick its fossil fuel habit — but finding affordable climate solutions for this northern city is no easy feat.
The long, costly road ahead for Winnipeg's transit improvement plans
Winnipeg is revamping its public transit system to meet 21st-century challenges. But convincing residents to get on board with the changes could be another story.
Garbage Gang is tidying a neighbourhood near you
The focus for group members was to pick up and photograph at least one piece of trash, but it turned into a larger educational movement.
Toronto friends spent lockdown helping homeless people
Through The Basket Project, Jack Tomé, Alex Mastromarini and Nathan Lee created bundles that they handed out to the city’s homeless population.
My teeny, tiny South Asian wedding
Until COVID-19 hit, South Asian weddings were often elaborate affairs with hundreds, even thousands, of guests.
Racialized Toronto youth prepare to change the world
Serisha Iyar, 25, launched Leading in Colour in July 2019, an organization aimed at giving racialized youth a voice and, more importantly, the ability and tools needed to mobilize to create real change.
Youth express climate fears, hopes through art
“The climate issue is so intersectional. It hits housing, it hits social justice, the pandemic — we want to explore all of that,” says Abby Neufeld, co-founder of The New Twenties, a writers’ collective and magazine aiming to shape discourse around climate issues.
Vacation opened brothers’ eyes to poverty. Now, they help
Nine years ago, during a family trip to India, Ishan Vijay and his brother Vishal’s eyes were opened to the immense poverty on the streets of India. That's why they started Every Child Now.
Testing site in COVID hot spot bridging the information gap for South Asian Canadians
A new COVID-19 testing clinic in Brampton offers health services and printed material in many languages to better spread the word about safety and local public health services among the city's South Asian community.
South Asians in Canada lend support to farmers’ protest in India
As hundreds of thousands of protesting farmers in India inch toward the capital of New Delhi, a rising number of South Asian Canadians are raising their voices to oppose violence levelled at the peaceful crowd.