By ALI RAZA, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Scarborough’s Randell Adjei is Ontario’s first Poet Laureate, and he hopes to inspire young poets and artists in communities across the province. Legislators of all parties passed a private member’s bill from Windsor-Tecumseh NDP MPP Percy Hatfield to appoint Adjei as the province’s first Poet Laureate. The bill […]
By NANDITA SHARMA Local author, Erin LeDrew, who recently adopted a new role at the vaccine clinic at CAMH (The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) where she’s worked as a recreational therapist for 10 years, reflected on her journey of five years writing the children’s book Mindful Me Goes to Sleep. The book aims […]
Just call them Spring (or Summer) Stations. The organizers of the annual Winter Stations outdoor art festival have revealed a modified schedule for this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of the art installations being placed along Woodbine Beach, as is traditionally done from February to the end of March, this year’s event […]
By ANSON WONG Fifteen artists from Canada, Sweden, Scotland, and the United States will have their music played in celebration of Earth Day later this month The virtual concert, Heal the Earth, is scheduled for 7 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 22. The event will be pre-produced and then released. Beach resident Sandy Graham […]
By NANDITA SHARMA From an awards standpoint, 2021 has been shaping up as a pretty good year so far for East Toronto musician Julian Taylor. Earlier this year it was announced that he had received his first two Juno Awards nominations in the Contemporary Roots Album of the Year and Indigenous Artist or Group of […]
By ALEXANDROS VAROUTAS A lot has changed since John Oughton began teaching in the 1980s. “In those days what we had for media was the blackboard, a 16 millimetre projector, if you could get one and found a movie that made sense, and overhead projectors. We didn’t have podiums connected to the internet,” he said, […]
By JAYSON DIMAANO Being a firefighter comes with its positives: You are helping your community and/or city, you are often seen as a hero and mostly you love your job. However, it also has its downfalls. Some of those include have dealing with the deaths of people in fires and accidents, having near-death experiences and […]
By JAYSON DIMAANO With warmer spring weather to come, people will start planting flowers outside their lawn or in their backyard; garden centres will reopen, and wildlife of all kinds will return. This includes insects such as bees, something Cheryl Fraser noticed last June. “I was looking out my front window and I saw a […]
By ALEXANDROS VAROUTAS As filmmakers, Ian Daffern and Omar Majeed are always looking for a story that would translate well to the big screen. Some of the criteria might be a distinct visual element, a local main character, and perhaps some sort of spiritual dilemma tying it all together. Naturally, then, when they came across […]
By NANDITA SHARMA Much has been said and written about the conflict in Afghanistan, yet it seems to be a topic of confusion in the western world. Much of the modern world is familiar with a sensationalised version of Afghanistan, one that is riddled with violence and terror. Violence does exist, yes but so does […]
