Pratyush Dayal

Videojournalist

Pratyush Dayal covers climate change, immigration and race and gender issues among general news for CBC News in Windsor. Before that, he worked for three years at CBC News Saskatchewan. He has previously written for the Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun, and the Tyee. He holds a master's degree in journalism from UBC and can be reached at pratyush.dayal@cbc.ca

Latest from Pratyush Dayal

Fewer international students made it to Windsor, Ont., in 2024. Local businesses are feeling the impact

Fewer international students made their way to Windsor and Canada this year due to the recent immigration changes. That is having an impact on the local businesses that depended on them historically.

These Caldwell First Nation members installed home security cameras. Now, they're being evicted

At least eight tenants at Caldwell First Nation are getting evicted on Boxing Day for installing security cameras around their houses.

Feeling warm? Windsor-Essex is losing 2 weeks of snowy, wintery days each winter

In the past decade, cities in Canada including Essex have lost weeks' worth of winter snow days each year due to climate change. They've been replaced by dozens of days of rain, melt and mud, according to a new analysis by Climate Central, a climate research and communications non-profit.

As Canada Post strike drags into 4th week, some Windsor charities miss out on donations

As the Canada Post strike drags on through a fourth week, charities say they are feeling a negative impact in the middle of the busiest time of the year — and at least one Windsor charity is seeing record low donations.

Christmas tree grower says changing climate brings 'more bad years than good years'

Overall, farmers are reporting great harvests because it was a year without heat domes, extreme flooding or early frosts, which have ruined harvests in the past. But the uncertainty of climate change lingers.

Incumbent mayors defeated in Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Weyburn

Regina and Saskatoon aren't the only cities that will see new faces occupying mayoral seats after the Nov. 13, 2024, municipal election.

Community members, advocates fear rise of transphobia in Sask. after election

Scott Moe is in power again but advocates, experts, families and trans and gender-diverse teens worry for the future.

When will we see results in the Saskatchewan ridings too close to call on election night?

The Sask. Party is leading or projected to be elected in 32 ridings — clearing its way to a majority government — but the full results of the 2024 provincial election in Saskatchewan may not be known for a few more days.

Representation, strategy or both? Sask. election sees increase in racialized immigrant candidates

Saskatchewan's current provincial election features an increase of racialized immigrant candidates. One expert says it makes strategic sense.

Gendered change room policy in Sask. schools would put trans kids at risk, say advocates, families

Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe has said if re-elected this month, the party's "first order of business" would be a policy restricting students to change rooms based on their assigned sex at birth. Some advocates and families say trans kids are being used as a political pawn.