The COVID-19 pandemic, which was first announced around February 2019, is still with us nearly two years later. It has also been that long since the hunt for a vaccine began. When the coronavirus, SARS–CoV-2, was found to be the cause of the deadly COVID-19 disease, a vaccine was seen as the only way […]
by Sukhram Ramkissoon Every year tens of thousands of foreign nationals who have close family ties or friends in Canada, submit visitor visa applications. A visitor visa is also known as a Temporary Resident Visa (TRV)which allows persons to enter Canada for a vacation or other reasons. Not all countries require their citizens to obtain […]
Your Kids, Their Money gives you the tools to teach your children about the one area many parents never talk about – money. Drawing on his master’s in business administration (MBA), finance experience, and practices with his own children, Clifton Corbin provides a guide for the modern parent. In this book you will learn how […]
When the Liberals made the election promise of funding $30 billion to allow for $10 a day child care, parents of any age and of any political persuasion would have found it difficult not to applaud the Liberals for making it. No doubt the announcement would have also been met with a great deal […]
Shayna Jones started a project of collecting stories from Black people living in rural places a year ago, and now she’s collaborating with Heritage Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum to further her Black and Rural project. Shayna Jones, a folklorist and performance storyteller from Kaslo, B.C., moved to the Kootenay mountains to […]
By Lincoln DePradine Students at more than 200 early childhood institutions in Jamaica are the beneficiaries of a supply of “Onetab’’, an electronic device that the Canadian donors say would allow the users – children ages three to six – “teach themselves literacy and numeracy’’. Canada-based Project for the Advancement of Childhood Education (PACE) […]
Thirty-year-old Michel was born in Haiti, and adopted at just five weeks old by his Canadian parents, Susette and David Prentice of Flesherton, Ontario It was March 2020, just a week before the entire world shut down, when Michel Prentice received a message on LinkedIn that changed his life. “He was like, ‘I think you […]
Protestors say that the government’s vaccination mandate is reminiscent of slavery. “Education not vaccination…the people have the power!” This was the clarion cry as approximately 200 people gathered outside the Ministry of Education headquarters last Tuesday to protest what they described as discrimination against unvaccinated children. One woman said that she did her part to […]
Over the past 100 years, the average lifespan has almost doubled. At the turn of the 20th century, in the industrialised West, you could expect to live until your 40s, on average. In the modern-day United States (and the figures are similar for other Western nations), the typical man can anticipate remaining on this Earth […]
Markham Fire and Emergency Services promoting diversity Markham Fire and Emergency Services (MFES) and Humber College have entered a unique agreement aimed at enhancing inclusion while reducing participation barriers for Black, Indigenous, and racialized Markham students who wish to build a career in firefighting. This agreement creates a complete package of scholarships, equipment, supports for […]
