Category: Community
-
Wavelength Music Festival to host Lowell and The Acorn
STORY BY MOLLY MUSSELWHITE What do Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene and Tokyo Police Club have in common? They have all played at Toronto’s Wavelength Music Festival. From Feb. 13 to 15, there will be 21 independent bands and artists taking the stage at various venues downtown Toronto. Wavelength is a Toronto-based arts organization run…
-
Still Alice gets people thinking about Alzheimer
STORY AND PHOTOS BY DYLAN PAISLEY It starts off slowly. At first you may forget the name of the teacher you had in Grade 2, or the name of your favourite bar in college. As the disease progresses, important things like the names of your family and your friends begin to fade away. By the…
-
LGBTs still waiting for a “positive space” room
STORY BY CHANELLE FAGON-TURNER Two years after first requesting a “safe-space” room for LGBTQ students, Sheridan students are still waiting. A petition has started to implement a designated “positive space” room that would provide an inclusive, supportive club atmosphere and education for the school’s LGBT community and allies. The petition, called Implement a Positive Space…
-
Young firefighter hopeful helps raise funds for SickKids
STORY BY STEPHANIE ALBA Aspiring firefighter Liam Cuttle has brought the Oakville community together to raise money for SickKids Hospital. Liam, 4, was diagnosed with Stage IV High Risk Neuroblastoma two-and-a-half months before his fourth birthday in August. Neuroblastoma is the most common type of cancer in infants and is a disease in which a…
-
Sheridan takes action to end gender based violence and sexual assault
COVERAGE BY DARYLL HINVES On Friday, December 5, Sheridan will be putting on a special ceremony on Friday, December 5 at 11 a.m. in Trafalgar’s SCAET building lobby. The event will be commemorating the lives of 14 women who were murdered at École Polytechnique de Montréal on December 6, 1989. In addition to honouring the victims,…
-
Reducing kitty crowding, one colony at a time
STORY BY LINDA HERMIZ Percy Street may look like an ordinary little street, but take a closer look. Nestled two blocks away from Toronto’s Humane Society, the short private lane is home to a colony of 11 feral cats. When Kali Hewitt-Blackie moved into her bed and breakfast four years ago, she noticed the large…
-
Craft vendors pitch in for fair trade
STORY BY RYAN MARSHALL Honey from Zambia, coffee from Guatemala, the Congo and Peru, jewelry from India, Columbia, and Nepal. All of this and more was available at the Toronto Fair Trade Show, held last weekend at the Gladstone Hotel. The show was planned to celebrate Toronto being a fair trade city, the largest in…
-
Black Lives Matter: Toronto protests the Ferguson decision
VIDEO BY DARYLL HINVES On Nov. 25, the day after a grand jury decided not to press charges on Darren Wilson in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, hundreds of protestors rallied outside the University ave. courthouse in Toronto to show solidarity for the people of Ferguson and protest police brutality and…
-
RBC hosts Skate in the Square
VIDEO BY KELLEN JACKSON This past Saturday, RBC held the Skate in the Square event for the grand opening of the synthetic ice rink in downtown Oakville. Town Square was packed with families looking to have some fun and go for a skate. RBC held the event to raise awareness about their charity called RBC…
-
Milton walks to Bethlehem
COVERED BY WILL DIXON The Sheridan Sun’s Will Dixon and Jennifer Stienstra joined the walk to Bethlehem in Milton to experience the birth of Jesus. [View the story “Milton walks to Bethlehem” on Storify]
