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Most Septembers, Kellie McIntosh and her daughter, Dana, help organize the annual back-to-school community barbecue at their social-housing complex in the Jane and Finch neighbourhood, in northwest Toronto.
There's only one free app I can use to talk to my parents in the United Arab Emirates. It's called ToTok, and you can't find it on Google Play. In December, it made headlines for being an Emirati government spying tool. I deleted it, as the experts recommended.
Toronto, Canada - When Canada's largest Sikh gurdwara shut down its langar, or community kitchen, last month due to the coronavirus, volunteers knew it could not be closed for long. "Nothing like this has happened before," said Ranjit Singh Dulay, secretary of the Ontario Khalsa Darbar in Mississauga, Canada.
COVID-19 has exacerbated chronic staffing shortages in the LTC sector. So these Ontario recruiters and researchers decided to pitch in.
With schools and community centres closed, organizations that help youth across Ontario are learning on the fly - and getting creative.
London's First Episode Mood and Anxiety Program focuses on early intervention - and experts say it could help reshape mental-health care for young people.
On Saturdays, Ryerson Community School, in the heart of Toronto's Chinatown, transforms into a language school for kids from kindergarten to Grade 8. "We've occupied the whole school," says Mona Eldardiry, the program's coordinator. These children are learning Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese on the weekends because they don't have the option to study them as part of the regular curriculum.
Read our companion piece here Death, undoubtedly, is a difficult topic; to think about, to talk about. To the living, and the healthy, death demands barely a thought. Only in the aftermath of a sudden death, or in the face of a looming illness, are we forced to contend with it.
By Priya Iyer The day I became a woman, biologically speaking, was the day I learned that God hated me. Looking back, I realize that there had been signs, little nuggets here and there. Like the time on a family vacation in India seven-year old me noticed something rather odd.