SocietySteveston’s recent summer win in CBC’s Metro Vancouver’s best neighbourhood contest reflects the community’s belief in itself and the values others see in it.
By PALLA MEDIA
Sep 21, 2020 · 2 min read
Society“To be born in Finland, is to win the lottery,” my primary school teacher proclaimed in awe, to our home, one of the most equal countries in the world. Whether the case was applying for jobs, or government financial assistance—the Finns have equal chances for a good life. The premise being that from hard work can be expected results.
By Celestial Magazine
Dec 13, 2020 · 5 min read
SocietyFor the Health Alliance of the Uninsured (HAU), 2020 started like any other year. Having distributed more than $3 million in prescriptions to low-income, uninsured patients in 2019 and recently celebrating their one hundredth Hepatitis C cure, they were poised for a year filled with success and momentum.
By Oklahoma City Community Foundation
Nov 17, 2020 · 1 min read
SocietyDesigned and manufactured by German organ builder George Kilgen in 1935, the Kilgen Organ was originally used by WKY studios in Oklahoma City to accompany radio programs with dramaturgical music effects. With the rise of sound television in the late 1940s, the organ stood close to being discarded or shipped out of town and was only saved through a community effort led by Garman Kimmell, founder of Kimray Inc.
By Oklahoma City Community Foundation
Nov 17, 2020 · 1 min read
SocietyWith the arrival of the 80s, a group of forward-thinking women at the Junior League of Oklahoma City began brainstorming ways to grow future generations of leaders. They coordinated a leadership conference for members of the Oklahoma City community that saw such success they decided it needed to become a regular program – and Leadership Oklahoma City was born.
By Oklahoma City Community Foundation
Nov 17, 2020 · 1 min read
SocietyA virtual Zoom presentation from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention took place at 1 p.m. on Sept. 17, 2020. Youth Intervention Specialist, Austin Richardson, who works with Prevent Suicide W. Va., hosted the meeting and Abby Baker, Peer Recovery Specialist, moderated the meeting.
By thetrumpetwlu
Oct 1, 2020 · 3 min read
Society"I can remember sitting at Fitzy’s on a Saturday night with my brother and you could literally hear crickets. People were starting to get scared and began staying home. COVID was getting real."
By News Corp Custom Publishing
Oct 27, 2020 · 3 min read
SocietyIt was July 8, 1943, an hour after dawn; a time and season for everything to be quiet and slow-moving on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. But not this morning. Frantic phone calls destroyed the drowsy, sultry calm. The largest landowner in the Bahamas, a man worth $200 million, had been found dead, and the cause was anything but natural.
By DuJour Media
Jun 8, 2020 · 11 min read
SocietyWhile the gender pay gap has taken centre stage, leaving us familiar with the grim realities of pay inequality, waiting in the wings is its lesser-known but equally worrying bedfellow, the gender pension gap - an issue leaving women woefully unprepared for retirement.
By Neighbourhood Media
Dec 30, 2019 · 4 min read
SocietyMore people in the world now have access to the internet than access to justice. According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), only 46 per cent of human beings live under the protection of the law, whereas more than 50 per cent of people are now active users of the internet in one way or another.
By Asian Jurist
May 1, 2020 · 5 min read