January 21, 2021 · 0 Comments
Written By ALYSSA PARKHILL
LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the local community organizations have buckled down to ensure residents of Caledon have been able to receive the care or resources they require.
Caledon Community Services (CCS) has run into a series of challenges amid the pandemic but have continued to overcome through the help from community members, organizations and local businesses.
CCS’s The Exchange is a community kitchen where local residents can access healthy, fresh food, and information and tools needed to learn basic nutrition and how to prepare meals.
Their food support program allows residents to receive packed and nutritious meals for individuals and families in need.
Posted: Dec 11, 2020 5:00 AM MT | Last Updated: December 11, 2020
Nitu Purna was one of four panelists taking part in an online forum on Thursday. She says better representation and diversity within the mental health sphere would be a big help in making services more popular with South Asians in Calgary.(Submitted by Nitu Purna)
A new campaign focused on improving mainstream mental health services for the city s South Asian population has launched in Calgary.
Punjabi Community Health Services (PCHS), a not-for-profit that provides counselling services and supports to the South Asian community, created the campaign Say It Like It Is to provide more culturally aware mainstream mental health services.
Racialized Canadians who could bring diversity to the country’s Order of Canada in the future include, top row, from left, Murray Sinclair, Afua Cooper, Winnie Ng, Adelle Blackett, Lynn Jones, Vivek Shraya, Debbie Douglas; middle row, from left, Akua Benjamin, Maryka Omatsu, Baldev Mutta, Avvy Go, Paul Taylor, OmiSoore Dryden, Amy Go; bottom row, from left, Alan Tai-Wai Li, Susan Eng, M. NourbeSe Philip, Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Angela Marie Macdougall, Gary Yee and Ingrid Waldron.
Toronto Star Composite Earlier this week, the BlackNorth Initiative made a point that seemingly too few people had realized: the 114 people named to the Order of Canada this year were overwhelmingly white and men.