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Gala honours Yasir Naqvi and Unita Louis
Saturday 24 August 2019 Two icons of Ottawa’s multicultural community were honoured last Saturday at a gala organised and hosted by Flo’s ...
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Kanu is Chief Financial Officer
‘I can do that too’: Vanessa Kanu on her role at Mitel BY: DavidSali Source: Ottawa Business Journal Vanessa Kanu distinctly recalls feeling “nervous”...
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Brand wins Trillium award
June 13, 2019 Writer and poet Dionne Brand won Ontario’s Trillium Book Award Thursday for The Blue Clerk. (Frank ...
Trudeau scholarships for PhD students
Two PhD students receive prestigious Trudeau Foundation scholarships Nataleah Hunter-Young and Riley Kucheran recognized for their exceptional work Ma...
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Kika Otiono heads to medical school
The Path Less Travelled: Third-Year Student Accepted to Med School By Leah Coppella 19 June, 2019 When Kika Otiono was in Grade 12 in Ottawa, m...
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Pereira is York Teacher of the Year
June 14, 2019 Elizabeth Pereira is York Region Teacher of the Year Elizabeth Pereira couldn’t understand what the fuss was all about when she was hono...
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Bonnie heads Children’s Aid Societies
Nicole Bonnie, the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies’ (OACAS) first Black Chief Executive Officer (CEO), started in her new...
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Literary Prize for Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand named recipient of 2019 Blue Metropolis Violet Literary Prize April 3 Dionne Brand is a poet, novelist and professor. ...
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Kenyan teacher wins global prize
Kenyan science teacher Peter Tabichi wins global prize By Sean Coughlan BBC News family and education correspondent 24 March 2019 I...
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Meju wins Geophysicists’ award
May 7, 2019 Nigerian Bags Highest Society of Exploration Geophysicists Award 105 A Nigerian, Dr Maxwell Azuka Meju, has been selec...