Saloni Bhugra
About
An Indian born-Toronto based journalist, who is passionate about social-political news and enjoys creating multi-platform stories.
Bhugra is a 2022 CBC Joan Donaldson Scholar.
As a Donaldson, Bhugra worked with CBC's News Network, World Report, World This Hour, and Calgary.
Followed by that, she went back to work with News Network in Toronto for a few weeks before she had to make a trip back to Alberta. Now she runs the CBC Lethbridge bureau as a reporter/editor.She is also a humanitarian aid worker for The Safe Space Project.
Writing
- Metro Morning with Ismaila Alfa: '777 Allan Gardens Park is my home': a resident of a park encampment talks about getting through winter
- Rally in support of truck convoy organizers outside Lethbridge courthouse
- Women's health at risk as Lethbridge battles severe obstetrician shortage, doctors warn: WEB PIECE
- Women's health at risk as Lethbridge battles severe obstetrician shortage, doctors warn: VIDEO
- Metro Morning with Ismaila Alfa: The homeless problem worsens: Why it's not just a public health concern, but a human rights crisis
- Metro Morning with Ismaila Alfa: Want to turn your home into a net zero emissions house? Retrofit coach Paul Dowsett explains how
- 'I don't want drugs anymore,' says first Blackfoot graduate from drug treatment court
- First Nations youth in Lethbridge among groups most impacted by poverty, report says
- Lethbridge charity helps kids, young adults with special needs through horseback riding
- At 10, Ishaan couldn't speak or write. At 17, he's an award-winning poet
- Discovery of genetic root of son's autism gives Calgary family hope for a cure
- #BookTok: How TikTok trending books make it into young hands and our movie watchlists
- Racialized Canadians look to federal parties for leadership — and real change
- Child Sexual And Physical Abuse: "Safe People Aren't Always Safe"
- Why victims of assault can’t say no — and can’t speak up
- Retirement home residents complain about mistreatment and food quality
- Indian Domestic Helpers Considered “Dirty”: 70 years after untouchability was banned
- Mixed race “Blindian” couples speak on the struggle to unite and fit in
- Minimalism: "What You Own, Owns You"
- Federal Elections 2018 polls
- 2020 U.S. elections: Republicans cling to Senate majority in a tight race
- It might be time for a new party to vocalize BIPOC concerns, says poet George Elliott Clarke
- Advocates call for safer public spaces for gender minorities
- Unofficial ban on critiquing minority cultures allows dictators to flourish: Banoo Zan
- Service industry workers face harassment by anti-vax protestors
- Jeff Clarke Profile on interviewing technique
- Residents on Eglinton west construction
- Det. Constable Trevor Merza on Find Them Fridays
- Arts story: The ultimate wave of MeToo movement hits with a flood of books and movies
- Paper: Cloaked websites and social media
- Analysis- reporting on indegenous communities
- Toronto Fatal Collisions- Who, When and How: A Visual Analysis
- Metro Morning with Ismaila Alfa: Ruckus Women want to make some noise
Photography
Video Reporting
Minimalism: "What We Own, Owns Us"
Sharing the Bounty
Nuit Blanche 2019
Wait times in Canada
THESIS
A Pew Research of 2014 shows the rising gap between the Republicans and the Democrats since the 1990s. The gap has doubled from 10 percent to 21 percent. Such increasing polarization can be seen around the world; giving rise to extrajudicial movements and right-wing extremism. This project takes the recent examples of such extremism in North America: the January 6, 2021 riots in the States and the Truck Convoy 2022 in Canada. Poet Laureate and professor at the University of Toronto George Elliott Clarke has written a poem about the convoy, comparing it to the Brink's Coup. He gives historical context tracing the issue as back as the Hayes Tilden Compromise, to Adrien Arcand, and now the Truck Convoy; all with an underlying issue of race. International affairs professor at Carleton University and extremism analyst Stephanie Carvin point out the several driving forces of such extremism and the potential danger our future might hold. NDP member of the House of Commons, Alistaire MacGregor, and international relations professor at the University of Toronto Arnd Jurgensen, point out the economic factors that pull people on both ends of the political spectrum, and why some political parties are playing a dangerous game of “riding a tiger.”
And some poetry for fun