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A Guide to BAD Travel Writing

By Zalina Alvi

Sometimes the best way to explain how to do something, is to explain how NOT to do something.

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Haiti's Bright Future: from Toronto to Port-au-Prince

By Zalina Alvi

Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. No matter where you were at that time last year, you probably saw some of the images coming out of the nation that day, as over 500,000 Haitians were either killed or injured and 1,000,000 people became homeless.

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How to Stay Green AND Volunteer Responsibly

By Zalina Alvi

Looks like 2011 is going to be a very green year for consumers!

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Two-Minute Tales Photo Shortlist

By Verge Magazine

We are thrilled to announce the winner for this year's photo contest! "Turtle Tears" by Ravi Jaipal. Congratulations! Also to Robert McKinnon, runner-up with his image, "One World."

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"Gap Yah" Clichés

By Zalina Alvi

If you've taken a gap year or you're thinking about it, consider this a cautionary tale.

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Can Volunteering Abroad Deter Youth from Violence?

By Zalina Alvi

Can volunteer work in Afghanistan and Iraq deter young Canadian Muslims with a potential for "radicalization to violence" from engaging in jihadist violence?

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What are you doing for Human Rights Day?

By Zalina Alvi

This Friday, Dec. 10 is International Human Rights Day - the day when the United Nations encourages the world to recognize human rights defenders and support the work they're doing to protect their rights and those of others. So what are you doing on Friday?

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Why More Women Should Work Abroad

By Zalina Alvi

Kudos to Selena Rezvani, author of a book on women leaders, who wrote a piece for The Washington Post last week about the benefits and obstacles for women working abroad, specifically in the business world.

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Does volunteering abroad do 'more harm than good'?

By Zalina Alvi

There seemed to be a flood of bad news for everyone at Verge on Monday.

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So you wanna be a (good) travel writer?

By Zalina Alvi

Travel writing is one of those professions that most people think is really cool, easy and fun - staying in fancy hotels or visiting exotic locales 24/7 and whipping up a quick article here and there - but it's actually one of the most misunderstood.

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To stay or not to stay?

By Zalina Alvi

Should more gap year travellers and people taking a career break spend their time off volunteering at home?

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Gappers need bailing out?

By Zalina Alvi

More than a whole third of UK gap-year travellers need to be financially bailed out by their parents.

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