Daniel Lak

Daniel Lak

Canada Correspondent

About the author

"Daniel Lak is the Canada correspondent for Al Jazeera English since January 2012. Previously, he worked for the BBC in South Asia from 1992 to 2004, based in Pakistan, India and Nepal. He was in Kabul for three weeks after the Taliban took the city in September, 1996. In 2001, his reporting for BBC radio on the Gujarat earthquakes earned him a nomination for the One World broadcasting award for developmental journalism. Returning to North America in 2005, he worked for the BBC, CBC and other media outlets covering Haiti, New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Mexican general elections, the Caribbean and a range of stories in Washington, DC. "

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Canada tightly controls number of internationally trained doctors, even while encouraging them to immigrate to the country as skilled workers.

Published On 4 May 2020
Video Duration 02 minutes 38 seconds 02:38

In hospitals across Canada, many organ transplants and other surgeries have been put on hold to give priority to COVID-19 patients.

Published On 14 Apr 2020
Video Duration 02 minutes 18 seconds 02:18

There is a record number of ethnically diverse candidates running in Tuesday’s general election in Canada.

Published On 20 Oct 2019
Video Duration 02 minutes 21 seconds 02:21

Shocking photos of Trudeau in blackface make-up and questions about his ability to lead the country have damaged his re-election hopes.

Published On 7 Oct 2019
Video Duration 02 minutes 25 seconds 02:25

Current donors are mainly people of European descent, which poses problems for a growing immigrant population.

Published On 10 Aug 2019
Video Duration 02 minutes 32 seconds 02:32
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