Views from Here is a youth guest blog series featuring voices from youth from our COM-Unity partner organizations. In the series, English-speaking youth share what it means to them to find— and sometimes struggle for— a sense of belonging in Quebec. In this edition, BCRC coordinator and poet Ayana Monuma shares a poetic plea for equality without erasing the beauty of difference.

“In the Right Place” is a blog series of the COM-Unity project featuring conversations with our partner organizations. In each conversation, we try to get a sense for how belonging takes shape in their specific communities, and how the places we inhabit shape us—and how we, in turn, shape them. Today's conversation is with Katia Toimil-Bramhall, Executive Director of Seniors Action Quebec.

Views from Here is a youth guest blog series featuring voices from youth from our COM-Unity partner organizations. In the series, English-speaking youth share what it means to them to find— and sometimes struggle for— a sense of belonging in Quebec. In this third post of the series, Jessica Williams-Daley explores the contradictions, joys and injustices of her experience as a young Black English-speaker in Montreal.

Views from Here is a youth guest blog series featuring voices from youth from our COM-Unity partner organizations. In the series, English-speaking youth share what it means to them to find a sense of belonging in Quebec. In this second post of the series, student and author Anna Joseph gives an account of an historic centre for Black Montrealers that is slated to be reconstructed in the near future.

“In the Right Place” is a blog series of the COM-Unity project featuring conversations with our partner organizations. In each conversation, we try to get a sense for how belonging takes shape in their specific communities, and how the places we inhabit shape us—and how we, in turn, shape them. Today's conversation is with Heather Darch, project coordinator at the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN).

Views from Here is a youth guest blog series featuring voices from youth from our COM-Unity partner organizations. In the series, English-speaking youth share what it means to them to find a sense of belonging in Quebec. In this first post of the series, Matthew Mullone, a young academic and musician associated with BCRC shares his first person perspective on the frictions of arriving to Quebec as an English-speaking Black person.

“In the Right Place” is a blog series of the COM-Unity project featuring conversations with our partner organizations. In each conversation, we try to get a sense for how belonging takes shape in their specific communities, and how the places we inhabit shape us—and how we, in turn, shape them. Today’s conversation is with Ayana Monuma, coordinator of the Where They Stood project at the Black Community Resource Centre (BCRC).

“In the Right Place” is a blog series of the COM-Unity project featuring conversations with our partner organizations. In each conversation, we try to get a sense for how belonging takes shape in their specific communities, and how the places we inhabit shape us—and how we, in turn, shape them. Today’s conversation is with Chloe Rodriguez, the coordinator of Youth 4 Youth Quebec’s COM-Unity partnered project, “You Are Here: The Belonging Project”.

“In the Right Place” is a blog series of the COM-Unity project featuring conversations with our partner organizations. In each conversation, we try to get a sense for how belonging takes shape in their specific communities, and how the places we inhabit shape us—and how we, in turn, shape them. Today’s conversation is with Ben Loomer, project coordinator of the “I Belong” project with LEARN (Leading English Education and Resource Network).

Today’s conversation is with Guy Rex Rodgers, the founding executive director (2004-2022) of the English Language Arts Network (ELAN) and current manager of ELAN’s COM-Unity partnership initiatives.