By Aarti Sharma - February 2022 - . What is love? Our experiences and circumstances in life can, to a large extent, shape the definition of love. One definition that has stayed with me is: love is giving with all your heart, without expectations. And isn’t this so true when it comes [...]
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 [...]
By Nina Badwal - December 2021 - (Photo: Daily Bread Food Bank) The holiday season is upon us and food insecurity in Toronto is getting worse. According to a report from the Daily Bread and North York Harvest food banks, there were 1.45 million client visits to food banks between April 1, [...]
- By Biraj Jha - . Accessibility is a human right. Is the St. James Town community failing or passing on making the area as accessible as possible to people who need it? St. James Town is a diverse and multi-faceted community located in the heart of Toronto, bordering Sherbourne Street to [...]
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 Sehr Athar - November 2021 - . It's flu season! The flu is caused by a specific virus that arrives each year around fall or wintertime. The flu is not the same as the cold! In fact, the flu can develop into more serious health problems, and can worsen pre-existing medical [...]
The Seniors’ Group has existed for 8 years in St. James Town and started after the fire at 200 Wellesley in 2010. Prior to COVID-19, the group consisted of about 20 people per session and there was already a Computer Learning Program in place, but it quickly pivoted to Zoom. The Tablet Training program [...]
Approximately 36 seniors joined us virtually to celebrate Seniors Month on June 26, 2020. We arranged for a musician to entertain us with oldies music. The songs were picked by each of the seniors and included music of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. June birthdays were also celebrated and we toasted to good health, [...]
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.
