Dismayed by her solo travel experience in 2017, Yaa Birago made it her goal to curate a safe space where like-minded women travel enthusiasts can come together to plan, book, meet, talk, and share everything about travel.
Source: Business Africa Online
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The head of the public service in Ontario has apologized to employees for systemic anti-Black racism with the organization, following a damning external review that found discrimination and harassment within it are "persistent and unyielding."
Source: CBC.ca
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It can be hard to be Black in Canadian tech. According to a 2019 report from the Brookfield Institute, only 2.6 per cent of tech workers in Canada were Black. There are even fewer Black founders—and those who do exist struggle to access funding, as the government of Ontario acknowledged earlier this year when it announced a partnership with Ryerson University DMZ’s Black Innovation Programs, which supports Black entrepreneurs across the country.
Source: The Globe & Mail
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Students at Hodan Nalayeh Secondary School in Thornhill, Ontario, are brimming with ideas about how to celebrate the former Somali-Canadian journalist in whose honour their school was officially renamed on May 19.
Source: Angles Covered
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“Dr. Fearon’s strong leadership skills, his commitment to diversity and inclusion and his outstanding reputation as a community builder made him the top choice for our new President, and we feel confident he will do an exceptional job in fulfilling the vision for the future of George Brown College.” says Kevin Costante, Chair, Board of Governors.
Source: George Brown College
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Adrian Harewood, anchor of CBC Ottawa’s supper-hour TV news and an adjunct professor at Carleton University will become a full-time faculty member at the School of Journalism and Communication on July 1.
Source: Carleton University
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(TORONTO, ON – May 6th, 2021) Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, will make a special guest appearance on The Brandon Gonez Show on Sunday, May 9th at 6:00pm EST. The exclusive 30-minute interview will be a 1-on-1 sit down with Prime Minister Trudeau to discuss Canada’s Covid-19 response, life post-covid, vaccine rollout, vaccination passports, anti-black & systemic racism, childcare, real estate, and the recovery for small businesses.
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OCAD University congratulates Dainesha Nugent-Palache on winning the New Generation Photography Award, and celebrates her talent. She is one of the three recipients of the 2021 award, presented by the National Gallery of Canada and Scotiabank.
Sources OCAD University
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Sometimes there can be rhyme and reason to Queen’s Park.
Scarborough spoken word artist Randell Adjei has been named as Ontario’s first Poet Laureate.
Source: TheStar.com
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The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has named Eunice Bélidor its new curator of contemporary art, making her the first, full-time Black curator in the institution’s 161-year history.
“This is something that happens in all the institutions I go through,” Bélidor told the Montreal Gazette. “Wherever I have been hired before, it always sends that message (of change), because I’m usually the first Black person holding that position.”
Source: ARTnews.com
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