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Transformative Learning : A field School Experience in Ghana

on September 20th, 2023 by The Afro News

Two local nurse educators from Douglas College have taken their students education to a new location this past year. Frankadua, Ghana is a rural community in the Easter region, bordering Volta region. Due to delays because of COVID, this field school took 3 years of planning and designing and multiple trips for organization and relationship

Filed under: Around the Town, Canadian News, Events, Familly Matters, Health & Home, International News, Local News, World Tagged as: Douglas College, local nurse educators, Tonya Roy and Leisha Vandermey

What’s Called Affordable Housing in Vancouver Isn’t Cheap 

on August 14th, 2023 by The Afro News

Finding affordable housing in Vancouver has become an impossible dream for many  Affordable housing in Vancouver has become an oxymoron – one of those statements that is in itself a contradiction. Finding any available housing is challenging. Even if one has modest expectations, finding the quality quantity of housing one would like in a preferred

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Health & Home, Local News, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: affordable housing in Vancouver, minimum hourly wage

Good Fences Make Good Neighbours

on August 14th, 2023 by The Afro News

Media Release  For immediate use and until October 7, 2023. Issued Aug. 12, 2023  Contact/photos: Chantal Kasongo, founder, Shiloh Place Orphanage Society, 604-937- 5305, siloplace@gmail.com; Shelagh Armour-Godbolt, volunteer, Shiloh Place Orphanage Society 604-415-9397, shelaghag@shaw.ca. www.shilohplace.ca  “Good Fences Make Good Neighbours”  Poet Robert Frost suggested that “Good fences make good neighbours”. In the case of Shiloh

Filed under: Around the Town, Events, Local News, Point of View, World Tagged as: safety and security, Shiloh Place Orphanage Society

Toronto’s Black Community Steps Up

on July 21st, 2023 by Michelle Williams

The deplorable situation taking place on the street in front of a City shelter referral centre at Peter and Richmond Streets in Toronto, received some much need help. Refugees and asylum seekers (many from Kenya), have been sleeping in the streets- some for three months or more- while Federal, Provincial and City governments argue over

Filed under: Canadian News, Familly Matters, Local News, News Tagged as: Refugees and asylum seekers, Toronto’s Black Community

New App Designed in Vancouver Aims for Safer Interactions Between Drivers and Police

on June 28th, 2023 by Helena Kaufman

Honore Gbedze, sat in the driver’s seat both literally and creatively when he acted on his concern for public safety on our streets. It moved him to design the International Driver’s License Application (IDLA). With so many news reports covering roadside encounters that lead to needless violence, harm and often fatalities, he was compelled to

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Local News, Technology Tagged as: concern for public safety drivers and police, drivers, IDLA – International Driver’s License Application, pocice, safety

South American Ride for KEEF

on May 24th, 2023 by The Afro News

Adventure cyclist Dr. Brenda Trenholme will talk about her 2022 bicycle tour across 6,000 km of South America, Buenos Aires to Chile and down to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego on June 8 and 9 on the North Shore. Brenda will show slides and respond to questions, 7pm June 8 at West Vancouver Baptist Church, 450

Filed under: Around the Town, Canadian News, Local News Tagged as: Adventure cyclist Dr. Brenda Trenholme, Education Endowment Fund

Nearly Half of B.C.’s Ministries have Been Affected by Fraud, Mostly Theft: Auditor

on May 2nd, 2023 by The Afro News

VICTORIA — A new report by British Columbia’s auditor general says almost half of the government’s ministries have been affected by some type of fraud between 2021 and 2022, most commonly theft. Michael Pickup says his results suggest not all ministries are following the same approach for managing risk or they don’t have a full

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Local News Tagged as: British Columbia’s auditor general

Wokeness is killing Vancouver

on December 5th, 2022 by The Afro News

Drug overdose deaths approaching 2,000 annually Does passive policing and harm reduction improve health and safety? Vancouver is a living, breathing example to the contrary – or perhaps more like a dying, gasping person. In his film Vancouver is Dying, Aaron Gunn demonstrates the rot of addiction and criminality that is destroying one of Canada’s

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Local News, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Addiction and homelessness, Vancouver Board of Trade

UBCP/ACTRA 11th Annual Awards Gala Celebrations

on November 20th, 2022 by The Afro News

The 11th annual awards gala celebrates the best of British Columbia’s talent in film, television and recorded media. Agam Darshi, Eric McCormack and Stephen Lobo AMONGST WINNERS AT THE 2022 UBCP/ACTRA AWARDS Vancouver, B.C. (November 19, 2022) – This year’s UBCP/ACTRA Awards ceremony honoured performers in six categories during the live ceremony at The Vancouver Playhouse on November

Filed under: Art & Music, Business, Canadian News, Entertainment News, Events, Local News Tagged as: British Columbia’s talent in film, UBCP/ACTRA 11th Annual Awards Gala

Fifty Years Later, Ismaili Muslims Are Still Giving Back to The Country that Gave Them Hope: Senator Jaffer

on November 14th, 2022 by Mobina Jaffer

Being an Ismaili Muslim woman is a very important part of my identity. On numerous occasions I have spoken in the Senate Chamber, on conference stages and in media interviews about my Ismaili heritage. I do this because I have an immense debt of gratitude to the community and His Highness the Aga Khan, the

Filed under: Canadian News, Local News, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Aga Khan Garden’s mandate, Ismaili Muslim community in Canada
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