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TORONTO, Ontario (Thursday, December 9, 2021) — The Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity, with the support of Toronto’s Black community health leaders, is critical of the hasty travel restrictions imposed primarily, on African countries, due to the appearance ...

By Michael L. Van Cooten Editor/Publisher TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday, December 8, 2021) — Through its wholly-owned housing authority — the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) — the City of Toronto has signaled its intention to dismantle discrimination and bias, experienced ...

ST. ANDREW, Jamaica (Tuesday, December 7, 2021) — Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica, Emina Tudakovic, presented a cheque for JA$21 Million — aimed at bolstering the empowerment of Jamaican women — to Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Monday, December 6, 2021) — The Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAS of Toronto) has appointed Marlon Merraro, as the Chair of its Board of Directors, even as it thanked previous Board Chair, Margot Trevelya — whose 2-year ...

ONTARIO, Canada (Friday, November 26, 2021) — For Black-Canadian entrepreneur, Andrews Baah, being approved for the Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund (BELF) was a lifeline that allowed his business to “spring forward and be successful”. “This loan means a lot,” remarked Baah, ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Tuesday, November 16, 2021) — Ontario-based PACE Canada (Project for the Advancement of Childhood Education) donated 1000 onetab teaching devices to the National Education Trust Jamaica Limited (NETJL), last Thursday. NETJL will distribute the tablets — which contain ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Thursday, October 28, 2021) — The Ottawa-based World University Service of Canada (WUSC) hosted a virtual exercise, on Tuesday, to launch its five-year Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) project, aimed at benefiting 12,000 women, youth (both female ...

ACCRA, Ghana (Wednesday, October 13, 2021) — Dr. Francis Bainyin Sam passed away suddenly, on Monday, October 4, at the age of 84. He died without suffering, painlessly and peacefully in Accra, Ghana, where he always wished to live out ...

By Alyson Renaldo Guest Contributor When Memorial University-tenured professor of social work (and friend), Dr. Delores Mullings, phoned to tell me that she had accepted the inaugural post of Vice Provost of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, on August 27, we ...

By Stephen Weir Guest Contributor HAMILTON, Ontario (Friday, September 17, 2021) — A new peer-reviewed study — by Canadian researcher and professor, Dr. Krissy Doyle-Thomas, titled, “Investigating Sensory Response to Physical Discomfort in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Near-Infrared ...