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Black Lives Here: Embracing race provides sense of release for yoga studio co-owner Liz Doyle Harmer

October 20, 2020May 20, 2021

By MIMI LILIEFELDT People think how you choose to wear your hair is fairly arbitrary. For the most part, if you’re a white person, this assumption is true. For a woman of colour this decision can influence how the world perceives you, and we know it. Liz Doyle Harmer is the co-owner of Afterglow Yoga […]

Black Lives Here: Beach Hill Smokehouse owner Darien List has entrepreneurial spirit

September 22, 2020May 20, 2021

By MIMI LILIEFELDT Lately there’s been much discussion of how to find our way towards racial equality. With so much information out there, it’s hard to know where to look for the right answer. Darien List believes we need to start with role models in our communities.Darien is the owner of our neighbourhood’s wildly popular […]

Black Lives Here: Tex Thomas runs Pro League Sports in the community he loves

August 26, 2020May 20, 2021

By MIMI LILIEFELDT If you’ve lived in the Beach for any length of time, then you know Tex Thomas, owner of Pro League Sports. Even if you don’t know his name, you recognize him from his reliable presence on Queen Street. Tex has a calm demeanor and easy smile; he’s a father of three kids, […]

Black Lives Here: Opening the conversation on being Black in the Beach

July 14, 2020May 20, 2021

By MIMI LILIEFELDT Welcome to Black Lives Here, a space created to get to know our Black community members and business owners. In light of the very real and important civil rights movement that is happening around the world, it felt timely to take this opportunity to open the conversation right here in our neighbourhood. […]

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