Grills For Good Tuesday, June 4 Good Robot Brewing, 2736 Robie Street 5:30-9:30pm, $55, eventbrite.ca Everyone knows #BeingHungrySucks, but for Mark Brand and the team behind Vancouver’s A Better Life Foundation it’s more than a hashtag, it’s a call to action: One repeatedly answered through initiatives to help people build upward mobility through increased food […]
Robyn McNeil
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DiFranco’s disillusionment
“Hello, is this Robyn? This is Ani.” Ani DiFranco’s familiar voice crackles on the line from her home, and studio, in New Orleans, where she is putting the finishing touches on a new album before trekking north to grace the stage at the Rebecca Cohn. Technically she’s a little late getting here. DiFranco was scheduled […]
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Tangles: A story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me
Using spare black and white drawings and uncomplicated, insightful prose Leavitt tells the story of Alzheimer’s—from the early signs of the disease through her mother’s diagnosis, decline and eventual death. Laughter and love intertwine throughout with the horrors of losing a loved one to memories that are no longer theirs to keep when all those […]
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Fauna
Toronto’s Don River Valley figures prominently in Fauna, the highly anticipated new novel from Alissa York. A sanctuary for misfits of both animal and humankind the Don wilderness is home to an auto wrecker’s yard that doubles as a rehabilitation centre for broken spirits and broken wings. But the delicate balance of life and death […]
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Ferry frisking
Take the ferry in Halifax and you agree to be searched. New federal security measures, which took effect April 1, permit passenger searches, require proof of purchase for passengers and add more security cameras and officers in terminals and on ferries. The changes are part of Transport Canada’s Domestic Ferry Regulations. Despite the new regulations Lori Patterson, spokesperson for Metro Transit, says the measures should have a minimal effect on passengers. “They (passengers) will see more decals posted around ferry terminals in terms of entering that facility. It is a secure facility and it means their consent, that they could