- March 2022 - Artwork created by students at Art City in St. James Town. Students drew self-portraits, their dreams for the future, or things they either enjoyed most or missed during the pandemic. Art City is a not-for-profit organization that provides free arts programming to local children and youth. . . [...]
Advocate for equality By Nina Badwal - February 2022 - Tatyanna Watts wants to make sure that no one is left behind. She has been volunteering for the St. James Town Community Corner for about a year as a Community Outreach Ambassador. As an African-Canadian, her mission is to connect Black folks [...]
Previous in-person services at the St. James Town Community Corner now available by phone while others put on hold By Nina Badwal - January 2022 - . Since its opening in 2011, The Corner’s mission has always been to provide residents of St. James Town an inclusive space where they can access [...]
- By Norma Khandaker - . The St. James Town Community Corner’s Seniors Day Program completed 9 years of programming in November. Folks celebrated the milestone with a week of festivities where they reminisced about the past, listened to music, enjoyed good food and had tons of fun. Over the years, the program’s [...]
Art Class for Kids Children creating their masterpieces at the in-person Fall 2021 Art Class for Kids program at The Corner (200 Wellesley St. East). . . .
By Lovlyn Dsouza Lovlyn Dsouza is a resident of St. James Town and volunteers frequently in her community. Currently she is a member of the St. James Town Community Corner’s steering committee. The following are her thoughts on volunteering, given at The Corner’s Volunteer Appreciation event in November 2021. . I [...]
By Saleem Siddiqui - November 2021 - . Welcome to Fall Fix-it Saturday. Do you have any home or electronic appliances that need to be fixed? At the St. James Town Community Corner, we do all kinds of fixing to reduce waste and reuse items. As part of Canadian Waste Reduction Week, [...]
The teacher turned preacher By Nina Badwal - November 2021 - Eugene Lee has been volunteering at the St. James Town Community Corner since August 2020 – right after landing in Toronto from Vancouver where he spent most of his life. He started out at The Corner by delivering meals to people in [...]
By Shirley Roberts - November 2021 - . The Eastern Time Zone, also known as Eastern Standard Time (EST) falls mostly along the east coast of North America. This year, on November 7th at 2:00 a.m., the time changes by one hour moving backwards. In Canada, the clocks will change in almost [...]
By Georgie Alford - November 2021 - During the eight days between November 28th and December 6th, Jewish people around the world will celebrate Hanukkah, the “festival of lights.” The specific dates when Hanukkah is celebrated in the Gregorian calendar (the calendar we usually use) change every year because the festival aligns instead [...]
Nalini Pandalangat, Director of Newcomer Health & Specialty Services, Sherbourne Health, is a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, and has extensive experience leading projects and programs in the community health, hospital and international development sectors. Her PhD was on cultural influences on help-seeking, treatment and support for mental health problems in the Sri Lankan Tamil community. Her research and program interests are focused on immigrant mental health, gender and health, cultural competence, health care access and health equity. Currently she is part of a core team working on the development and dissemination of a refugee mental health framework.
