Article Type: Our Voices
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A how-to on vitamins for BIPOC folks in the Canadian winter
The sun was already gone when I checked the time. We’ve all been there. Five o’clock. Somewhere else, or “back home”, that would still have been the afternoon, the hour when people are wrapping up work but the day feels unfinished. In Charlottetown, however, it was already evening. We all know Canada as being cold.…
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Housing on the Line: What PEI’s Proposed Tenancy Amendments Mean for BIPOC Communities
Prince Edward Island is facing one of the toughest rental markets in the country. In Charlottetown, more than half of households are renters, compared to only about a third across the province. At the same time, vacancy rates remain stuck below one percent. In practice, that means that for every 100 rental units, fewer than…
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BIPOC USHR Statement on Senator Percy Downe’s Islamophobic and Racist Comments
On February 9th, 2024 Senator Percy Downe of PEI posted segments of an exchange he had with Senator Marc Gold, regarding security checks on international students. In this exchange, Senator Downe made multiple blatantly racist and Islamophobic comments, using dog whistles to paint international students as security threats, and then specifically target Palestinian students from…
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Cannabis and you: Age matters
Attention international students! Did you know that cannabis – otherwise known as weed or marijuana – impacts your brain differently depending on your age? If you are younger than 25 or 26 years old, your brain is still developing. This means that if you use cannabis during this time, you are impacting your brain development,…