LCBO to fund bursaries and scholarships for diverse woman to enter beverage industry

LCBO to fund bursaries and scholarships for diverse woman to enter beverage industry

As part of the LCBO’s Spirit of Sustainability commitment, the Board launched its new Spirit of Inclusion Initiative, a program designed to create more opportunities for diverse women to enter, advance and thrive in the beverage alcohol industry. The program will fund bursaries and scholarships, facilitate mentor relationships and identify paid co-op placements for students […]

Canadian elections should reflect the country’s many languages

Canadian elections should reflect the country’s many languages

   According to Slava (Veaceslav) Balan of University of Ottawa Faculty of Law According to the 2011 census, almost 213,500 people reported an Indigenous mother tongue, including 144,000 who speak an Algonquian language and 35,500 who speak an Inuit language. All Indigenous languages are the languages of this land. In the same 2011 census, more […]

National Newspaper Awards making competition more diverse and inclusive

National Newspaper Awards making competition more diverse and inclusive

The National Newspaper Awards Board of Governors has announced several initiatives aimed at making the competition more diverse and inclusive. These changes, which flow from a commitment made as part of the 2021 awards ceremony in May, include: – Reduced fees for freelance journalists who enter the competition independently, and journalists who work for digital […]

Errors disenfranchised many in last elections says NDP

Errors disenfranchised many in last elections says NDP

Many were from Indigenous communities The NDP has requested an official inquiry into what it calls “numerous and systemic failures of election officials” in last month’s federal election. NDP national director Anne McGrath has written to Canada’s elections commissioner, Yves Cote, calling for an investigation into whether election officials in a number of ridings failed […]

RBC expands access to capital for Black entrepreneurs

RBC expands access to capital for Black entrepreneurs

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has announced the launch of the RBC Black Entrepreneur Business Loan (BEBL) – a new financing solution that provides eligible Black entrepreneurs in Canada with loans of up to $250,000. “Black entrepreneurs continue to be disproportionately affected by a lack of access to capital and resources that are critical to […]

Egyptian and Nigerian Canadians on short listed for 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Egyptian and Nigerian Canadians on short listed for 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Last Tuesday the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist was announced, celebrating five Canadian fiction writers and the 28th edition of the Prize. The authors named to the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist are: – Omar El Akkad for his novel What Strange Paradise   – Angélique Lalonde for her story collection Glorious Frazzled Beings – Cheluchi […]

Time to reimagine Canadian Thanksgiving

Whatever the reason(s) for this special day in the calendar, we ended up with a Canadian Thanksgiving celebrated on Columbus Day (in the Americas) – a birthday celebration that White settlers enjoy and the Indigenous people abhor. In fact, they just removed a statue of Columbus in Mexico.

Time to reimagine Canadian Thanksgiving

  With respect to this past weekend, we’re pretty sure that this Thanksgiving had a meaning more special than many of the ones that were celebrated in recent times. Of course, for the more senior generations, they will most certainly point to those very special Thankgivings that came at the end of the two great […]

Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in literature

Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in literature

Swedish Academy recognises Tanzanian novelist’s ‘uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee’. Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature, the award-giving body said. The prestigious prize was awarded last Thursday by the Swedish Academy, which cited Gurnah’s “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of […]

The mythology that Thanksgiving nurtures is itself inherently evil

The mythology that Thanksgiving nurtures is itself inherently evil

  By Glen Ford Late Editor of Black Agenda Report Thanksgiving is much more than a lie. It is not just a twisted fable, and the mythology it nurtures is itself inherently evil. The real-life events – subsequently revised – were perfectly understood at the time as the first, definitive triumphs of the genocidal European […]

Ontario will pump $270 million this year into LTC homes to increase staffing  

Ontario will pump $270 million this year into LTC homes to increase staffing   

Up to $4.9 billion in next four years The Ontario government will provide up to $270 million this year to long-term care homes across the province to increase staffing levels, leading to more direct care for residents. This includes $726,676 for long-term care homes in Ajax. This is part of the province’s commitment to ensure […]