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By Dyan Ruiz The South Asian Women’s Centre, a vital community service centre in the heart of an immigrant community, lost all of its funding from the federal government. These drastic cuts came into effect on April 1, 2011. “We don’t know where people will go in the South Asian Community,” said executive director Kripa [...]
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By Emily Loewen Through living together in intentional communities, refugees and Romero House volunteers work outside the mold of settlement services to help newcomers connect to a new city. When Ruth Panene first came to Canada four years ago she had a hard time connecting to people and starting her new life. She noticed that [...]
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By Tim Alamenciak What happens when you come to Toronto, all alone, looking for a place to belong? Going to a foreign country is a scary proposition: no friends, no family and sometimes a language barrier. Simple luxuries once taken for granted, like favourite foods and television channels, are suddenly unavailable. One Toronto hostel HI-Toronto [...]
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48 per cent of our nation’s adults have low literacy skills. By Shannon Busta It’s cold outside as I cross King Street in Toronto’s west end. The intersection at King and Dufferin isn’t the most beautiful one might find in the city, especially in March. Grey light shines down from a cloudy ceiling that threatens [...]
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