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  • Young firefighter hopeful helps raise funds for SickKids

    Young firefighter hopeful helps raise funds for SickKids

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    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…

  • Bars drafting ideas to shake up Oakville’s dining

    Bars drafting ideas to shake up Oakville’s dining

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    STORY BY SAMANTHA MAICH Sheridan students are about to see a change in the local bar scene with Shakers becoming a southern smokehouse restaurant, and Philthy McNasty’s sports bar having switched ownership and its name to Drafted. The Shakers Bar and Grill at the intersection of Kerr and Speers Rd. is shifting to a restaurant. Tony…

  • Sheridan takes action to end gender based violence and sexual assault

    Sheridan takes action to end gender based violence and sexual assault

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    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,…

  • Craft vendors pitch in for fair trade

    Craft vendors pitch in for fair trade

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    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…

  • Festival of Trees returns to light up Oakville Place

    Festival of Trees returns to light up Oakville Place

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      STORY BY JONATHAN FERGUSON The trees have returned to Oakville Place after a seven-year absence. The Festival of Trees runs from Nov. 25 to Dec. 9, and five trees will be raffled off with proceeds going to charity. There are five artificial Christmas trees up for raffle, each put together by a store from…

  • Black Lives Matter: Toronto protests the Ferguson decision

    Black Lives Matter: Toronto protests the Ferguson decision

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    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

    RBC hosts Skate in the Square

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    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

    Milton walks to Bethlehem

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    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]

  • Raising a voice against racism

    Raising a voice against racism

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    STORY BY JENNIFER STIENSTRA “Hands up! Don’t Shoot!” This was one of the many phrases chanted by a raucous crowd of people of all backgrounds who packed Toronto’s University Ave. to show solidarity for the events of Ferguson, MO. Thousands gathered in front of the Superior Court of Justice building on Tuesday night, across the…

  • LIVE COVERAGE: Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony At Celebration Square

    LIVE COVERAGE: Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony At Celebration Square

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    COVERAGE BY DANIEL FORRESTER On Nov 22, Mississauga’s Celebration Square will be transformed into the north pole with plenty of holiday fun and christmas excitement as Mayor McCallion and Members of Council light the Squares’ first christmas tree this season. Admission is free and the event runs from 6 p.m. till 9 p.m. (weather permitting)

  • Bringing awareness to diabetes

    Bringing awareness to diabetes

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    INFOGRAPHIC BY CATARINA MUIA November is Diabetes Awareness Month. There are 2.5 million Canadians out of 35 million are affected by diabetes. The Sheridan Sun has a summary of what diabetes is, the signs and symptoms, who is affected, how to maintain it, how to raise money and where the money goes. MORE RELATED TO…

  • Chill Ice House offers drinkers a warm welcome

    Chill Ice House offers drinkers a warm welcome

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    STORY BY LINDA HERMIZ With winter approaching, it may sound outrageous to visit a bar made entirely of ice, but the Chill Ice House in Toronto is busier than ever this season. Though it appears to be a regular bar on the outside, the Chill Ice House is actually an arctic paradise where the tables,…