The Thompson-Okanagan Region has received a brand new $35 000 grant for the province’s new ‘Resilience BC Anti-Racism Network’. One local minority says he has had to deal with racism all around him in the area ever since he moved to the Thompson-Okanagan in Middle School.

“When I was a kid on the school bus, this older kid called me the n-word and that was my first exposure to racism because I came from a place where pretty much everybody was black”

The North Okanagan Social Planning Council, which will serve as the region’s “spoke”, received the most funding out of all BC communities.

In total, 36 communities received some funding from the ‘Multiculturalism Grants’ under BC’s new banner: the ‘Resilience BC Anti-Racism Network’ that was launched back in 2020. Like most people by now, anti-racism awareness facilitators are equipped for virtual communication, something that, leaders say, the COVID-19 pandemic has actually helped with.