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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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Generation Chosen giveaway during Christmas Eve 2020, 300 free meals distributed. Photo credit: @gen_chos3n
Generation Chosen is spearheading the distribution of 300 meals at 127 Eddystone Ave, North York, ON (M3N 1H5). Beginning on Monday, July 12th, 2021, until August 9th, 2021. Generation Chosen encourages and welcomes any and every resident of the Downsview community to stop by 127 Eddystone Ave, North York, ON (M3N 1H5) and grab a nutritious, nonetheless delicious food supply and meal!
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Speaker, facilitator, author and Creator and Founder of Special Compass: Shakira’s works to help make education accessible for different kinds of learners. Photo credit: Linda Lebreton
July 26 2021, is National Disability Independence Day.
Starting with signing the “Americans with Disability Act” (ADA) in 1990, July 26 became National Disability Independence Day, in commemoration of the act.
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Photo credit: Yvonne Smerdon
The best type of local news is the news that something good happened or about that thing that did not make the news, because a tragedy was avoided. When the Downsview Advocate got a call from Yvonne Smerdon, an avid local photographer, that is exactly what we found.
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Generation Chosen giveaway during Christmas Eve 2020, 300 free meals distributed. Photo credit: @gen_chos3n
Generation Chosen is spearheading the distribution of 300 meals at 127 Eddystone Ave, North York, ON (M3N 1H5). Beginning on Monday, July 12th, 2021, until August 9th, 2021. Generation Chosen encourages and welcomes any and every resident of the Downsview community to stop by 127 Eddystone Ave, North York, ON (M3N 1H5) and grab a nutritious, nonetheless delicious food supply and meal!
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Jeremiah Ranger.
For the last 18 months of his life, Jeremiah Ranger never went to school.
Not one day.
That sounds shocking, I know. But the reality is that this meant he was only in school slightly less than previous years due to his frequent suspensions. He would be suspended for 20 days, return to school for a short time and then get suspended for another 20 days. It was a consistent case of educational whiplash.
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Humber-River Black Creek MPP Tom Rakocevic, Doreen Simpson of Remember the 400, Michelle Dagnino of the Jane Finch Centre, Zakiya Tafari of the Afri-Can Food Basket and Nilda Pately of Lumacare pose for a photo together in the parking lot of the Jane Finch Mall where hampers were unloaded. (Photo Credit: Ayesha Khan)
On Friday March 12 2021, community organization Remember the 400 joined forces with the Afri-Can Food Basket, Lumacare, ATU Local 113, the Jane Finch Centre and other partners to distribute 450 food hampers, called Freedom Baskets, as well as COVID-19 vaccine information in the Jane-Finch Community. Emergency food supports have been a vital supplement to the Jane-Finch community during the COVID-19 pandemic. While food insecurity was already a problem in the community before the pandemic, lockdown measures and job losses have greatly exacerbated this existing equity issue.
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Volunteers pose on Christmas Day after packing the remaining meals to be sent to encampments of people living without housing. (Photo credit: Katherine Cirlincione)
A local cloud kitchen business in the Northwest corner of Toronto has partnered with various organizations and volunteers to deliver thousands of meals across the city of Toronto. “We are breaking a record of 10,000 meals delivered to hungry people in this city.” Said owner Steve of Kitchen24, known widely for his philanthropic habits and giveaway events.
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Although York University is the third-largest university in Canada, most of its campuses will remain closed to students. (Photo credit: MACLEAN’S/Cole Garside)
Students and universities have been facing unprecedented challenges since the outbreak of Covid-19. Universities are attempting to find a method to deliver quality education, while prioritizing the health of their students. Although public schools have opened up for in-person classes, universities have decided to transfer much of their operations online. This is the case as universities provide education to many students. York University has roughly 50,000 students. Although the education of students is a priority, universities cannot risk becoming centers of Covid-19 outbreak.
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