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By Sachil Singh Guest Contributor Brian Sinclair wheeled himself into a Winnipeg emergency room, in September 2008, seeking assistance with his catheter bag. He had a bladder infection, but instead of receiving treatment, remained in the waiting room for 34 hours, ...

PRINCETON, New Jersey May 25, 2020 – Princeton University, a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, has named a Canadian, Nicholas Johnson, the son of a Bahamian father and a Jamaican mother, as the first Black valedictorian ...

By Kate Choi, Anna Zajacova, Michael Haan and Patrick Denice Guest Contributors Anecdotal stories about the COVID-19 pandemic suggest that Black, racialized and immigrant people in Canada have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. This narrative tells the story of immigrants and ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist On May 6, Québec’s Director of Public Health, Dr. Horacio Arruda, said Quebec would begin collecting data about the race, socio-economic and ethnic background of those infected with Covid 19. “Yes, this information will be ...

By Deborah Schulte Canada’s Minister of Seniors The COVID-19 pandemic taken a toll on seniors’ finances, mental health and social networks. As they are staying safe by staying home, seniors are facing rising food and prescription drug costs, and having to ...

OTTAWA, Ontario, May 15, 2020 (CMC) – Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, held talks, Wednesday, with his Jamaican counterpart, Andrew Holness, and United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, on the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for the developing world. A ...

By Margaret McKinnon and Ruth Lanius Guest Contributors Initial reports from the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic suggested that health-care workers were at high risk for moral injury. Moral injury, often associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is thought of in ...

By Keisha Jefferies Guest Contributor During the coronavirus pandemic, nurses are among the nation’s front-line workers. Over the years and to this day, the contributions of Black nurses are hard-fought, unrecognized and under-appreciated. Nurses are essential in care delivery, policy directives ...

By Michael Van Cooten Publisher/Editor OTTAWA, Ontario May 12, 2020 — Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced, this morning, additional measures, aimed at helping Canadian seniors, and providing them with greater financial security, in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

TORONTO, Ontario May 5, 2020 — Former Justice Romain William Michael Pitt, who was born on September 29, 1935, in Grenville, Grenada, passed away, last Wednesday, April 29, in Toronto, at the age of 84. The trailblazing community builder, pioneer ...