Study: Black women show dramatic increase in diabetes, cardio-vascular disease and obesity
Source: Ottawa Sun Rising diabetes, obesity rates putting ethnic groups’ health at risk: Study Sheryl Ubelacker, THE CANADIAN PRESS First posted: Monday, August 10, 2015 11:41 AM EDT | Updated:...
Félicité Murangira celebrates 60th birthday
by Pamela Ingera On July 25th 2015, to celebrate Félicité Murangira’s 60th birthday and to honour her many accomplishments, her 4 children, Pamela, Linda, Robbin and Bruce, threw her an...
Annual Dapo Agoro Fun Day hosted by Dapo Agoro Foundation for Peace
Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Blackburn Community Centre on Glen Park Drive was a hive of activity last Saturday as over a hundred participants gathered to celebrate the 13th Dapo...
Ottawa celebrates JAM Day
Saturday 8 August Mooney’s Bay was awash with gaiety, song, dance, music, food and fun as Jamaicans in Ottawa celebrated their national day, popularly known as JAM Day. Hundreds of...
Children’s Aid Foundation of Ottawa: Help a Youth Dare To Dream
Help a youth Dare to Dream The Children’s Aid Foundation of Ottawa (CAFO) operates out of the east end of the city, but reaches all over, helping children in the...
Interview: In coversation with Professor Benedicta Egbo
June 2015 Source: Joy Osiagwu – Nigerian Television Authority Professor Benedicta Egbo is with the Faculty of Education & Academic Development, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Featured image source:...
Ontario Human Rights Commission: Share your views on racial profiling/Donnez votre avis sur le profilage racial
Share your views on racial profiling The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) is developing a policy on preventing racial profiling – and we need your help. Please consider filling out...
In conversation with Stachen Naomi Frederick, Founder, BrAIDS for AIDS
Could you tell me about your childhood? Where were you born? Is there anything about your childhood that stands out for you? I was born and raised in Trinidad and...
Honouring our 2015 graduates – Koral Miller
Dear Koral, We are so proud of the woman you have become. It was just yesterday that we put you on the school bus to your first day of...
South Sudan community celebrates students’ graduation
Saturday 18 July It was a fine sunny day when South Sudan’s Ottawa community celebrated the graduation of a number of their members with a barbecue at Vincent Massey Park....