Madiba: headphones for homeless students
COVID Changemaker: Gwen Madiba started a headphone campaign to help homeless students Bruce Deachman Apr 14, 2021 Gwen Madiba was in the Ottawa apartment — a city-run emergency dwelling for...
School named after Nalayeh
Trustees in York Region rename Vaughan high school after late Somali-Canadian journalist Social Sharing YRDSB Board voted 10-2 in favour of renaming school after Hodan Nalayeh CBC News · Posted: Mar 02,...
African Association 2021 award winners
Wale Adesanya – Business Achievement Leadership Award Wale AdeSanya is the National Chairman of the Nigerian and Canadian Business Network. He has been an Investment and Insurance...
Kevin Bourne CEO Shifter magazine
CEO Embraces Pandemic by Olivia Barrett When the lockdown started last March, Kevin Bourne decided he wanted to come out of the pandemic better than he entered it. Bourne, 40,...
Saunders appointed special adviser
Friday, March 5, 2021 Retiring Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders is shown during an interview with The Canadian Press in Toronto on Monday, July 27, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn...
Inamuco receives Women’s award
Friday, 5 March 2021 The Orléans Leading Women and Girls Recognition 2021 Award ceremony took place on March 05, 2021 virtually. Marie-France Lalonde, M.P. for Orléans hosted this important yearly...
Angeline heads Black radio show
Grad Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe hosts Canada’s first national radio show devoted to Black music Words: Bryan Alary | Images: Supplied1 Mar, 2021 ALUMNICULTURE CBC’s The Block airs weeknights at 7 p.m. As the youngest of three...
Jean Marie Vianney receives Allmand award
Sunday 21 March, 2021 Renowned Black community leader Jean Marie Vianney, today received the prestigious Warren Allmand award from the Union des Africains du Québec et Amis Solidaires de l’Afrique...
Dr. Ruby Edet appointed Anti-Racism Manager
Dr. Ruby Edet appointed Manager, Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression & System Change Somerset West Community Health Centre Nigerian-born Dr. Ruby Edet has been appointed to a one-year pilot position as Manager,...
Awoyiga appointed resident artist
Renowned Nova Scotian teen becomes Wellness Within’s first junior artist in residence Noushin Ziafati Oct 26, 2020 Damini Awoyiga has been creative for as long as she remembers. “I would draw,...