Category: Community
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Air Son Ar Dutchais – 150 Years of the Lorne Scots
BY AJ WILSON It’s been 150 years since Halton Region’s Reserve Unit, The Lorne Scots, was formed on Sept. 14 1866. In celebration, all of the unit’s members, including cadets, drilled for weeks in preparation for the parades held last weekend. Visiting from England to attend the parade was the Lorne Scots’ Colonel-in-Chief, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who is also the…
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Georgetown runs for hospital equipment
BY KENNEDY COLTHERD On average 68 Canadian women are diagnosed with breast cancer every day. Last Sunday a Georgetown residents pulled together and held a run to raise money for a key piece of diagnostic equipment for their local hospital. The hospital currently shares Sentinel node probe with the Milton hospital, which means that sometimes patients have…
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Toronto activists gather to ramp up campaign against TPP
BY BRADLEY NORTHCOTE A group of community activists and advocates in Toronto is calling for a stop to the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership, which they say is an unfair and undemocratic trade deal harmful to creators and consumers of digital content. The diverse group held a “TPP Teach-In” at the United Steelworkers Hall in Toronto on Saturday,…
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Bad time to buy? Hamilton home price up 2% in August
BY DUY HUYNH There are the fours years of work to finish, the internship, and then finding a full time job in your field. Then, barring all of those are worked out, the housing market could be a tricky one for recent post grads to get into. Hamilton is one of four city markets to have increased…
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MPP educates community at Tuition Town Hall
BY ELISE MORTON A Tuition Town Hall held at Sheridan’s Hazel McCallion Campus on March 16 gave the community an opportunity to ask MPP Dipika Damerla questions and learn more about the Ontario Student Grant (OSG). Around 50 people including students, parents, community members and reporters who were eager to have their questions answered attended…
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Cosplayers and fans pack Toronto ComiCon
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY CAMILLE GUSHWAY The lower level of the Metro Convention Centre was flooded with costumes last weekend as the annual Toronto ComiCon opened its doors to people of all ages dressed in a variety of cosplays. The costumes ranged from anime characters to iconic film characters. The dealers’ room, where most of…
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Flynn calls free tuition ‘ingenious’ at Sheridan announcement
BY JASMINE ANTHONY MPP Kevin Flynn held a session at Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus on March 15 to announce the new Ontario Student Grant, which was released as part of the recent 2016 provincial budget. In front of an audience of about 30 faculty members, students and media, Flynn and Sheridan President Jeff Zabudsky shared pride…
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Toronto polar bear dip helps fight kids cancer
BY ELISE MORTON A loud shriek arose from the crowd at the centre of Yonge Dundas Square as they were soaked by waves of cold water when participants plunged into a pool at the sixth annual Toronto Sears Great Canadian Chill on Feb. 15. The brave chillers who participated in the polar bear dip to raise awareness,…
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Lawyer warns of systemic racism fuelling the security state
BY JAKE HRIBLJAN While some Canadians may find the niqab an infringement on Canadian culture, legal scholar and activist Azeezah Kanji sees the recent election debate as one of the latest examples of a deeply entrenched system of institutionalized racism. Two weeks ago, University of Toronto’s Hart House hosted its annual Hancock Lecture, given by…
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Neighbourhoods in transition: Pushing the envelope
BY NATALIA CAMARENA On Jan. 26, Linda Morgan returned to another committee of adjustment meeting, along with 10 of her neighbours in an attempt to prevent another variance from being approved. In the last few years many neighbourhoods in the Town of Oakville have been undergoing transition. Older houses have been taken down, and million…
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Food4Kids feeds hungry children and hungrier hearts
BY ANDREW GOULART Rated as one of the best places to live in Canada, you probably wouldn’t think there are many hungry kids in Oakville. But you’d be wrong. “It was a bit of a shock to me when I first started that there were so many kids that needed this service,” said Josee Normand,…
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Black History Month kicks off at Town Hall
BY NICOLE CALHAU Powerful soul music filled the room at Oakville’s Town Hall as the crowd of 100 people came together to celebrate Black History Month on Feb. 3. The performances took the crowd back into the 1800s during slavery and showed everyone how people would use music as a way to escape the pain…