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Best communities in Canada: Why Atlantic Canada comes out on top
Our exclusive new ranking finds the long-overlooked cities of Atlantic Canada are the top places to be now that many of us are able to work and study from home
April 8, 2021
Melissa Mahoney and her family stand in front of their home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Photograph by Carolina Andrade)
After 15 years of living in downtown Toronto, Melissa Mahoney was sick of the commuting grind. Every weekday, the 41-year-old teacher got up at 5:45 a.m. and left her townhouse in the city’s Regent Park neighbourhood. She’d spend an hour commuting to her job in Whitby, Ont., after dropping one of her daughters off while her husband handled the other. Then, on the way home, she’d pick up both kids and her husband with the household’s single car.
Posted: Apr 06, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 6
The 12-week program offers young entrepreneurs tools and resources to grow their business.(Kyah Sparks/CBC)
When Sherelle Reddick heard about the African Nova Scotian Young Women s Entrepreneurship Program, she knew it was exactly the support she was searching for. There s so many options to have one-on-one support in this program, said Reddick, 30, who had the inspiration to launch an online fashion store but didn t know how to get started. I literally started the program with an idea and I m leaving with a business.
Within the 12-week program, Reddick and 13 other Black women received access to tools, resources, and education to grow their businesses.
5 days ago
HALIFAX – In an online Twitter argument late Saturday night, local white liberal Jordyn Michaud landed a devastating blow against her American opponent by pointing out that Canada already has an image of a black woman on the $10 bill, despite not knowing who that woman actually is.
“Americans have been talking about putting a black woman on their money for years, but we just like, went ahead and did it,” said Michaud, referencing the image of Black Nova Scotian civil rights leader Viola Desmond, a woman she could not confidently distinguish from Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis.
“I know Canada still has problems or whatever, but I think it really just goes to show that Canada has always been so much more advanced than the United States when it comes to race,” she said, holding up a $10 bill depicting Desmond, who was forced to close her business and move to the United States after being criminally convicted for sitting in the whites-only section of a New Gl
Posted: Feb 25, 2021 8:00 AM AT | Last Updated: February 25
Lalia Halfkenny attended the Acadia Ladies Seminary in 1889. After graduating she looked for work but found few opportunities in the Maritimes. Halfkenny went to Virginia, where she was a very active and much beloved teacher. (Acadia University Archives)