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Canada's COVID-19 Immunization Plan
Posted on Friday, February 19, 2021 12:46 PM
From: Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada
The goal of Canada's COVID-19 immunization response is: to enable as many Canadians as possible to be immunized as quickly as possible against COVID-19, while ensuring that high risk populations are prioritized.
Black History Month – It’s Beginning’s
Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2021 04:19 PM
February, the shortest month of the year, a month so unique in that it boasts 29 full days once every four years, yet it is a month that holds a special honour in the year as it hosts the legacy and ongoing contributions of people of Black heritage, across history. This is, unsurprisingly, perhaps more poignant than ever this year with the events surrounding the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests that sought to draw attention to persistent racial inequality and police brutality. Racial...
International Mother Tongue Day
Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 06:52 PM
International Mother Tongue Day is Sunday, February 21st this year. Proclaimed by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) during a General Conference on November 1999, international mother tongue day is meant to “promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by peoples of the world”. The term mother languages can be understood as the first language someone is exposed to and learns as an infant, rather than a language...
INFO N4 - Newsletter: February 2021
Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 06:07 PM
Commemorating Black Heritage and Black History Month
Black History Month commemorates the rich heritage of a variety of cultures that span the globe: from the sub-Saharan African and Sahelean cultures, through Europe and the Americas, to the island gems of the Antilles and extending across the Australian landscape. As we celebrate Black History Month we are mindful that when we say Black, we are referring to more than a skin colour.
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Featured Member: Nenyo Kwasitsu
Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 04:32 PM
Nenyo Kwasitsu is a Graduate Programs secretary at Dalhousie University and is a serving board member of the Im/Migrant Women’s Association of Halifax (IMWAH) where she also volunteers as a Project Coordinator for their Art and Storytelling project sessions with Immigrant and migrant women and their children.
What led you to resettle in Canada?
I am Ghanaian by birth. In the 1990s, my Dad did a 6-month course at Dalhousie University and he loved it. When I finished Law school in Ghana, I worked...
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