A new online marketplace dedicated to St. James Town vendors By Nea Maaty - February 2022 - Our Marketplace (ourmarketplace.ca) is a new online entrepreneurial project that formed during the pandemic. The goal of the venture is to provide local businesses and entrepreneurs, in the St. James Town area, with an on-line platform [...]
By Georgie Alford - January 2022 - . There is no denying that 2021 was another tough year financially. Statistics Canada highlights that while economic activity has grown in the past year, it still remains below pre-pandemic levels. The slow growth rates have continued to affect business owners and with the surge [...]
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 Nea Maaty - November 2021 - In this episode of St. James Town TV, we feature the Weathering the Storm research report. The report was prepared for The Corner and the St. James Town Service Providers’ Network by Lisa Kowalchuk, a professor of sociology at the University of Guelph. Lisa Kowalchuk’s team of [...]
By Georgina Alford - September 2021 - Labour Day, celebrated on the first Monday in September, recognises labour movements across America and Canada. Since 1894, Labour Day has been a statutory holiday, helping to build a working-class identity and allowing time for rest and relaxation outside of the workplace. Some historians trace [...]
By Aarti Sharma - September 2021 - . In February 2019, Tapaswini Mohanty, a mother of a 6-year-old, was about to finish her internship in software testing. Mohanty had not worked in Canada since she moved here in 2016. However, the effort she was putting into her internship made her optimistic, and that [...]
- By Aarti Sharma - Residents of SJT share their experiences of Canada I call Canada the cold land of warm “thank you” and “sorry”! I am Aarti Sharma, mother of an active 7-year-old boy. I believe that within 3 days of arriving in Canada, I had exceeded my annual quota of [...]
On Wednesday, June 24th, 2020, St. James Town Pathways held a career education event on the subject of technology over Zoom. Chris O’Neill, technology investor and executive, former head of Google Canada and CEO of Evernote, former board member of Tim Horton’s and current board member of The Gap, spoke to St James Town [...]
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.
