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Pushing Back on Myths around Covid 19 Vaccines

The Africa Centre in Partnership with Foundation for Black Communities created some resources that addresses the myths and controversies around the covid 19 vaccine. These animated videos address different questions surrounding vaccine hesitancy. Some of the questions are: Should pregnant women get vaccinated? I have already been had the disease so I don’t need the…

Tackling Vaccine Hesistancy with the Africa Centre

Africa Centre has compiled a resource tool kit aimed at educating the public on the changing COVID-19 situation and questions around vaccines. The information has been compiled from Alberta Health Services and medical experts in the field. They invited Dr. Augustine who actively works in Black communities in the US to assess vaccine hesitancy based on…

Home  by A New Post Lorrie Morales

    When I have visitors, they often remark that my home feels friendly. There is definitely a difference between a house and a home and I can testify that over the years, we have invited many people into our house and all felt welcomed. Some stayed for a meal; others stayed overnight and some…

Senior Moments with Lorrie Morales | Friendships by Lorrie Morales

    I am grateful for the friends like gardeners who make my soul blossom. In our garden of life, we have many flowers of friendship. I have the elegant rose, the exuberant sunflower, the quiet daisy and the resilient snapdragons. Some of my plants are hearty and survive the frosts; but others are only…

Music To The Soul | A new post by Lorrie Morales

  When I was a young girl, my grandfather bequeathed a huge, ornate, old piano to my mother. There was no room in our living room, and so it was hauled downstairs where we as children could pound away and not drive our mother mad. When we got old enough to read music, mother enrolled…

Funding Your Business in a Covid World | Dexteritas and StartupCourt

  This video is a collaboration with www.Dexteritas.ca and www.startupcourt.com. They are intensely focussed on the growth and prosperity of enterprises in Alberta and Canada. They support start ups and businesses to achieve and exceed their set goals. LCCMedia Foundation has the express permission of Dexteritas and Startupcourt.com to publish the video here. This video…

Budgeting 101 with Tayo and Dotun

Tayo Elnathan and Dotun Ayodele ( from Start up Court ) do justice to budgeting in their financial literacy series. Watch their first ensemble here. They are relatable and they break down all the myths around Budgeting.

Taking Sides | A New Post by Lorrie Morales

This has been a hot, smoky summer for many in Western Canada and a cool, wet one down East. Our country has also become divided, not just by weather, but by divisive viewpoints, opinions and comments. After lockdowns, restrictions, masking and the politics of it all, people are now divided on the issue of vaccine…

Financial Well Being in Canada | Survey Results

This is a reference from Canada about the financial wellbeing of people in Canada. Financial wellbeing is the extent to which you can comfortably meet all of your current financial commitments and needs while also having the financial resilience to continue to do so in the future. It is not only about income. It is…

Vaccines and You with Dr. Jennifer Njenga

  Dr. Jennifer Njenga is the CEO of Canada HomeCare Group. She presents a three part series on the efficacy of Vaccines. In this workshop, she defined what the Covid 19 is and the havoc it has wrecked across the world, how people get the virus, what we can do to reduce the spread of…