A national organization aimed at creating a network of sheltering projects for Muslim women and children is fundraising to open its next facility in Winnipeg.
OTTAWA Just after 3 p.m. Sunday, the last cow bell rang out signalling the end of a massive effort to get Ottawa residents vaccinated in the final Jabapalooza. It’s been pretty complicated to get the vaccine, so this has made all the difference in terms of access, said Mikayla Sherry, now fully vaccinated. Spearheaded by Ottawa family physician, Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth, the event dubbed Jabapalooza saw more than 500 residents getting a jab to the arm in the Glebe Sunday afternoon. We’ll have given 2,500 (doses) over the course of the spring (and) the summer, said Dr. Kaplan-Myrth. It s help Ontario and Ottawa get people fully vaccinated.
TORONTO A new unit with Peel Regional Police, which aims to better protect victims of intimate partner violence, was spurred in part by the tragedy of a young woman killed during the pandemic. Darian Henderson-Bellman, 25, was shot and killed in July 2020. The Halton Hills woman had been involved with a Brampton man, who is now 28. He faces first-degree murder in connection with her death. Henderson-Bellman’s memory is all around her grandparents. They wear masks with her image, keep her ashes around their necks, have a memorial in their garden and painted her name on the garage roof. “[Life is] very, very empty. We’re only just realizing we’re without her. We’re just coming to grips with that now,” said her grandmother Flo Bellman.