iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Feb 1, 2021 11:13am Parliament Hill pictured on Jan. 15 (Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
As the number of COVID-related deaths continue to rise in Canada, the toll on mental health across the country has experts in the field actively pushing the government to boost funding for mental health. The Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association is working with Benjamin Howe of Impact Public Affairs to advocate for additional mental health services funding.
The Walt Disney Company has hired Justin Burrows of Geopolitics Group to discuss the government’s bid to overhaul Canada’s broadcasting laws (Bill C-10) as well as its proposal to implement a Digital Charter (Bill C-11).
MCC responds to layers of need in Beirut
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Jan. 28, 2021
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Eight of Alice Joubanian’s grandchildren – all under 8 years old ‒ lived with her and her daughter in a Beirut camp for Armenian refugees when a massive explosion of ammonium nitrate rocked the city on Aug. 4, 2020.
As the sound and power of the explosion destroyed buildings and killed about 200 people, Joubanian’s daughter, Maria Berberian, ran to help the children, four of whom were her own and four who were her brother’s. In the chaos, she fell and broke her arm.
Berberian, a single mother, joined thousands of others in Beirut who were injured that day, making an already difficult life more so. Unable to keep working as a caregiver and housekeeper for an older woman in Lebanon, Berberian was fired.
Hunger is on the rise in Zimbabwe. Photo: PWRDF
The reports in November and December 2020 were dire. For the people of Matabeleland in Zimbabwe, the “lean” season had begun. The peak lean season the three months after Christmas, the really difficult season before harvest was soon to arrive.
The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has been supporting rural livelihoods, women and men working in agriculture, for all of its 60-plus years. With the support of our generous donors, PWRDF has provided food, seeds, technical training and advice in seed preservation, pest and crop management and market linkages, all while building on local agricultural knowledge and practices.
By Letter to the Editor on December 30, 2020.
A few years ago, my then 87-year-old mom told a story of Nazi occupation in Holland as a young teenager. She spoke of strangers walking up to their family’s home asking for something to eat, and how the family often fed those folks. While they had little for themselves, they still found some to share. If you listen to others from that generation, you’ll hear stories of hardship, as well as acts of kindness. For many younger Canadians, the COVID experience may be one of the most challenging times we have experienced. The anger, fear, frustration and grief are both real and seemingly unending. The news updates seem dominated by negativity. Perhaps we lack the perspective from the last generation in assessing the extent of our hardships.
Author of the article: Greg Southam • Edmonton Journal
Publishing date: Dec 28, 2020 • December 28, 2020 • 1 minute read • Lew Conklin,5, (left) and little brother Koen, 3, (right) play play frisbee with their mom with food container lids while wearing robot heads which are made from sour cream containers in a downtown park on Friday, May 29, 2020 in Edmonton. Photo by Greg Southam /Postmedia
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This photo of two young brothers probably won’t win any photo contests, but it still brings a smile to my face during these challenging times.
I was driving around on a Friday morning a couple of months into the pandemic, and Edmonton was like a ghost town. As I neared the downtown area, I caught a glimpse of these young boys walking down the street with large sour cream containers on their heads. I quickly turned around and hopped out of my car as they pulled out their food container lids and started throwing them at each other and their moth