35,000 experience homelessness every night; Canada at an important crossroads VANCOUVER, October 29, 2014 – The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (Homeless Hub) and the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH) released their second annual State of Homelessness in Canada report today. Highlights of the report include: 235,000 different Canadians experience homelessness each year and 35,000 […]
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George Elliott Clarke to speak at York University about ‘The Great Black North’
TORONTO, Jan. 29, 2014 − Poet Laureate of Toronto George Elliott Clarke will speak at York University on Monday, February 3, 2014, about how the presence of “people of colour” in Northern climes, such as Canada, is perceived as aberrant. A literary writer and respected scholar of African-Canadian studies, Clarke will deliver this year’s Kitty […]
Scientists from Canada and Brazil joining forces to fight infectious disease
Toronto, January 28, 2013 – Canadian scientists from York University will meet with Brazilian researchers Feb. 1-2 in São Paulo, an international collaboration that is expected to lead to important advances in the control of many diseases including West Nile Virus, Dengue Fever, and drug resistant strains of tuberculosis. The two-day workshop, organized by York […]
