A group of Durham College students have seen their internships cancelled or postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic. That has some of them using creative means to fulfill the requirements to graduate on time. “It’s kind of disheartening to know that my future’s on hold,” said Tracey Bowers-Lee, a journalism student at Durham College.
Working from her kitchen isn’t where Tracey Bowers-Lee envisioned she’d be doing her internship. The 43-year-old was supposed to be learning the ins and outs of the journalism industry at a local online magazine, but that internship was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “A tumbleweed going down a hill, collecting us one at a time, diminishing our dreams,” said Bowers-Lee, describing the pandemic’s