When I arrived in Quebec from my native Cameroon in 1986, I sensed early on that entrepreneurship would be my path. Eager to start my own business, I naturally turned to financial institutions for initial funding. However, I quickly realized that bringing my ideas to fruition would not be as easy as I had imagined.
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Legislating for Fairness often Results in Unforeseen Consequences
Be careful what you wish for. Often, seeking solutions through laws and legal action only makes the problem worse In democracies such as Canada and the United States, leaders and governments have to be responsive to the needs and wants of the people who elect them if they are to stay in power. This is…
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Celebrate Special Occasions, Support Learning
A new gift catalogue from KEEF – the Kenya Education Endowment Fund offers gifts that celebrate your special occasions while supporting learning in Kenya – Mother’s Day, weddings, graduations, Father’s Day, birthdays, retirement, and more. 100% of the gifts in the catalogue support education of bright, financially poor students in Kenya – and most gifts…
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Canadian News
Canada’s Premiers Have Failed the Basic Needs Test
The people are hungry and sleeping outside. Where are Canada’s premiers? In days of old, kings and queens were often judged by some pretty basic criteria: Did the people have enough to eat? Did they have a safe, warm place to lay their heads at night?. Looking around Canada today, it’s pretty clear that…
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Government Overspending is Literally Killing Our Country
Canada’s debt exceeds $1.2 trillion, or nearly $31,000 for every person in the country New Year’s and hangovers go together like rum and eggnog. Some hangovers can be eased with a fistful of Tylenol and rehydration. Others, however, linger on, causing long-term damage to our future health. Such is the crapulence imposed on us…
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Alberta Opting out of Federal Pharmacare Just Might Save Your Coverage
A government-run pharmacare monopoly could potentially lead to the loss of coverage for certain treatments covered by private insurance. Drug coverage in Alberta would have been at risk if not for Premier Danielle Smith’s decision to opt out of an ill-conceived federal government-run pharmacare plan. The crux of the issue is that the federal pharmacare…
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World News
Most Zimbabwe Court Users Content: Survey
. . . but more work needed to improve accessibility Most of Zimbabwe’s court users are satisfied with the country’s judicial system, according to a survey by East West Management Institute that tracked In the survey, that tracked 785 court users – both male (336) and female (449) – found the overall user satisfaction rate…
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Zimbabwean Women with Disabilities Left Behind in Political Participation
Women with disabilities (WWDS) suffer multiple discrimination and exclusion resulting from their varied forms of disabilities and being women in a patriarchal environment that largely devalues them just because they are women, so says Professor Cowen Dziva, from the Local Development Research and Advocacy Trust Zimbabwe (Lodrat.) The intersection of disability and political participation is…
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The Perfect Gift for Anyone at Any Age
Media Release This holiday season, when finding the perfect gift is a challenge, consider a truly meaningful solution. Not sure what to give to a teenager, someone with limited space, or the hard-to-please person in your life? What about those who prefer experiences over “stuff”, or those celebrating a different winter holiday? Project Amhara Foundation…
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Fixing Canada’s Family Doctor Crisis
Canada is facing a severe family doctor shortage. Here is how we can fix it In our neighbourhood, there are many “everyone deserves a family doctor” signs. The sentiment isn’t surprising, but it’s based on the fantasy that putting up a sign will somehow create more doctors. The reality is that Canada faces…
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Safe Supply Programs Creating a Surge in New Opioid Users
Federal government faces pressure to rethink its safe supply opioid policies How many doctors does it take to change a government policy killing young Canadians? Seventeen? Maybe. That’s the number of medical addictions specialists who drafted an enlightening open letter to the federal government to tell them that the current safe/safer supply programs for opioid…
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At The Root of Who I AM
The Afro News, Vancouver Canada The word ‘root’ has many different meanings; a common explanation is being the part of a plant or tree that is below the surface. In other words; the root of a healthy living plant or tree is never seen or exposed to the light, it is almost always buried in…
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Canada’s Banks Investing in Climate Disaster
The second iteration of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance report, released last December, highlighted how, for the second year in a row, Canadian banks rank amongst the worst in the world when measured on how much funding is directed to fossil fuels versus renewable energy. Last December, while testifying at the Senate banking committee studying Bill S-243 — the Climate-Aligned Finance Act — Superintendent of…
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