Canada – Minister Ng and FACE hold round table with Black business owners

Jul 1, 2021 | International

Ottawa, Ontario

Black Canadian business owners and entrepreneurs make important contributions to the Canadian economy, yet they continue to face systemic barriers in starting and growing their businesses. This has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Government of Canada is working to address these long-standing systemic barriers with its first-ever Black Entrepreneurship Program.

Yesterday, the Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, joined by the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Greg Fergus, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, to the President of the Treasury Board and to the Minister of Digital Government and Chair of the Parliamentary Black Caucus, Marci Ien, Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre, and Tiffany Callender, CEO of the Federation of African Canadian Economics (FACE), met with a group of Black business support organizations, entrepreneurship organizations and community leaders for a round table to discuss the progress made on the Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund.

Participants shared their insight and asked the government officials and Ms. Callender about the co-development and rollout of the loan fund. Participants highlighted the importance of connecting the loan fund, the Black Entrepreneurship Program more broadly and other government programs, as well as links between FACE and existing Black-owned businesses. The government officials acknowledged the progress that has been made with the historic Black Entrepreneurship Program, the first of its kind, but also noted that more work needs to be done across government, now and into the future. FACE emphasized that it has been working, and will continue to work, with all Black businesses and support organizations to ensure that the loan fund helps increase access to capital and provides the support that Black business owners and entrepreneurs need to succeed and grow.

Minister Ng took the opportunity to thank the participants and FACE for their leadership, contributions and engagement in building the Black Entrepreneurship Program through consultations over the past year, while also recognizing FACE’s continued progress supporting Black business and community groups across the country.

Gphysco’s 2021 Round Up

Mar 26, 2021 | Business

Gphysco has had an interesting New Year in 2021 so far. With first being the first song released in 2021 which is called “Hard Life” released January 26, 2021. This song was a redo of the song released back then that was called “Messed Up Life” this version is a little longer and added lyrics towards the end. The next song dropped was called “Dark Truth” which was out on February 01, 2021, and has done pretty good on listeners when it was released. “Dark Truth” has a message behind it when listening to it.

Finally the recent song being released which was dropped on March 07,2021 12:00 A.M. EST the name of the song being called “Waking Up”. The song gives an upbeat mood mixed with rap all inside the song. The song has gone up and down a few times since the day it’s been out on release day in listening.

Quick note “Gphysco” has decided to change his Instagram from “Gphysco” to Gphyscoofficial” reason being he wants to start fresh and have a clean start on social media.

Lastly Gphysco has been on stand by on the works with music due to recent work and having a little cold affecting his ability to sing once the cold goes away Gphysco will go back to working on music.

Official cover art being “Waking Up” (Picture of forest fire)