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MPP Tom Rakocevic stands outside local Humber River Hospital.
While almost all industries have been impacted by COVID-19, few have been so heavily impacted as the healthcare industry.
Even now, families in Ontario are being left high and dry in anxiety-inducing, dangerous and potentially fatal hospital backlogs. In June of 2021, the Ontario Medical Association declared there was a backlog of upwards of 16 million health procedures, which has inevitably grown much worse since.
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Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, trying to dig Ontario out of problems with tiny shovel
The hope that many shared last year that things were returning to normalcy were suddenly taken away by the Omicron variant. Yet, the effect of the new COVID wave was amplified here in Doug Ford’s Ontario due to a lack of clear planning or competence. The wait-until-public-outcries-boils-over-to-make-a-decision strategy simply has not worked and has left families hanging in the lurch time and time again.
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Montevideo Bakery & Café. Photo credit: Montevideo staff
The impact of the pandemic has been detrimental for nearly everyone and anything but has truly honed down on small businesses. That’s why this year, it is especially important for us to get out there and shop from small businesses, just in time for the holiday season!
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Volunteering with Black Creek Community Health Centre at clinic. Photo credit: Muna Xassan
As Ontario enters phase 2, Black Creek Community Health Centre continues to strive to get everyone in the community vaccinated. Black Creek Community Health Centre has opened multiple pop-up clinics throughout the Humber-River Black Creek communities ensuring that Downsview residents get their vaccine.
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Photo of Jezebel Melo-Centanni and Charlene Jose. Photo credit: Arissa Masi
All high school graduates had to deal with the disappointing and unfulfilling final year of high school. Almost all local schools chose to keep their graduations virtual, and none of the schools are hosting a prom. Fortunately, the students are coming up with creative ways to host their own prom–one way is throwing a backyard prom.
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Photo credit: National Cancer Institute
On Sunday, June 6, 2021, this day marks the 34th annual National Cancer Survivors Day. People around the world will globally recognize cancer survivors while raising awareness of the continuing challenges that they have to face. Most importantly, they will celebrate their lives.
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Residents and activists gathered for the virtual town hall. Photo credit: Jane Finch Action Against Poverty
On Wednesday May 5, 2021, Jane Finch Action Against Poverty in conjunction with Black Creek Food Justice Network, Jane Finch Education Action Group and Jane Finch Housing Coalition hosted a virtual public event speaking out against various injustices they feel have been wrought against the community.
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Jeremiah Ranger
November 20, 2015. You may remember that day because it was an eventful day in world news. Ten gunmen with grenades stormed a five-star Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, Mali. They took 170 hostages. 27 people were killed.
News on that day was less tragic back home in Toronto. On that day, the Toronto Christmas Market officially opened for the season in the Distillery District. For the first time, they would charge an admission fee on weekends to help reduce the size of the crowds.
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A message of hope for Jane and Finch, carried by a child. Photo courtesy of Jane Finch Community and Family Centre Staff
When the WHO declared the COVID pandemic on March 13, 2020, the lives of billions of people were impacted. The lives of most Canadians changed forever, plunging many people into crisis. For some Canadians there has been a silver lining – no more hours spent commuting, deeper connections with family, increased savings, and for many white collar professionals, they saw their business revenues and salaries increase.
Yet for the residents of Jane and Finch, like those in Malvern, or Agincourt, or Brampton East, the COVID-19 pandemic has been the culmination of 40 years of crisis.
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Jeremiah Ranger, who tragically lost his life to gun violence.
The difficult cases are the ones that need us the most. Jeremiah Ranger was a difficult case. I remember reading these words at his funeral, written by his Child Youth Worker from Oakdale Park Middle School: “Jeremiah was adorable and shy. He had eyes that showed pain and hope at the same time…He was kind, loving, fragile, protective, and family oriented…Through his anxiety was a loving boy.” Most of those who knew him the best would say the same thing. He had a big heart and a big smile. But he also had a darker side. Jeremiah Ranger was a difficult case.
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