Tag: Toronto
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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…
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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…
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Raising a voice against racism
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…
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Chill Ice House offers drinkers a warm welcome
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,…
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Walking through the life of Kubrick at TIFF
STORY BY NICHOLAS OLSEN From his self-taught roots in the trenches of anti-war filmmaking, to a space odyssey that would set a precedent for an entire genre — Stanley Kubrick is the subject of the most ambitious exhibition to hit the TIFF Bell Lightbox. TIFF’s largest show to date, it features nearly 1,000 artifacts and…
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Singing for women of all sizes
STORY BY BRITTANY MCAULEY An Edmonton woman is generating an overwhelming amount of attention after she posted a YouTube video of her own version of Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass.” Natty Valencia, 20, put a new spin on the already body-positive pop song, which celebrates women’s curves, and altered it for women of all…
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The undead have their day at the Toronto Zombie Walk
PHOTOS AND VIDEO BY CHRIS COUTTS On October 25th, the undead masses piled into Nathan Phillips Square for the 12th annual Toronto Zombie Walk. The event features a marketplace with everything a horror fan could ever want, zombie make up artistry, a costume contest, and the main event, a parade of zombies filling Toronto’s…
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Planning your Halloween
BY BRITTANY MCAULEY If you’re like anyone else on Halloween, you’re probably not sure what to do or where to go. The Sheridan Sun has broken down a few of our favourites this year that all promise to spook, surprise and show you what Halloween really is.
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LIVE COVERAGE: Indie Week Launch Party
COVERAGE BY VANESSA GILLIS Indie Week is coming to Canada! On Wednesday, October 15, The Hideout in Toronto will be hosting the Indie Week Launch Party, which will begin at 7 p.m. and will feature indie bands from Australia, Japan, Ireland, England, and, of course, Canada. Visit canada.indieweek.com to see the full lineup for the festival,…
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Turning up the heat
This is a continuing series about people’s first experiences doing things they’ve never done. STORY BY VANESSA GILLIS Nervous. Excited. Terrified. Those are the emotions GTA firefighter Dan Burley felt his first time responding to a fire 14 years ago. “My first fire I just remember looking at the guy next to me…
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Nuit Blanche 2014
VIDEO BY PALWASHA TEMOR PHOTOS BY BRITTANY MCAULEY & JEANYLYN LOPEZ & CHRIS COUTTS On Oct. 4, thousands of artists, art admirers, suburbanites and partygoers flooded in to Toronto’s downtown core to take part in the all-night public art exhibit known as Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Artists from all over Canada and the world over displayed their work in…
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LIVE – Toronto Transformed
COVERAGE BY BRITTANY MCAULEY, CHRIS COUTTS AND JEANYLYN LOPEZ On Saturday Toronto will shut down its streets and open up our eyes when Scotiabank Nuit Blanch lights up the night from dusk until dawn with art installations and projects. Join the Sheridan Sun team who will be there to cover the event live and bring Scotiabank…