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Sask. arts mentorship program focused on northern communities awarded significant grant
A Saskatchewan arts non-profit that works with remote communities has secured a big funding boost from a national initiative focused on empowering Indigenous people."When I first heard the news, I was just emotional and overwhelmed because this work that we're doing, it's not just work. It's meaningful, spiritual work," said Holly Yuzicapi, an Indigenous artist and the co-founder of non-profit Community Arts Mentorship Programming (CAMP).CAMP will receive $175,000 per year for four years from a
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Memorial concert in Summerside aims to fill 'big holes'
Keeping Music Alive, a fundraising concert in memory of P.E.I.'s Owen Hann, will hold its second annual event this weekend.Hann, a well-loved musician based in Summerside who travelled the world playing music in his day, died unexpectedly in December 2022."Dad's loss was very sudden and it left big holes in a lot of people," said Hann's son Nick.But the family was quick to move to mark his memory. Last April they launched Keeping Music Alive, gathering together Owen Hann's musician friends for a
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Anonymous donor to match up to $170K in April donations to Canadian Cancer Society
Before February 2019, John Zeus Tokatlidis couldn't have imagined a simple physical exam would shake up his life. But the doctor found a lump, Tokatlidis was diagnosed with Stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and he now lives with advanced cancer. "It just felt like I lost my footing on the world," he said. "I was terrified."Tokatlidis credits the financial donations people make to charities like the Canadian Cancer Society with making possible the treatments that have helped save his life.April mar
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Saint John cleanup hopes to garner mass community support Saturday
With Earth Day on Monday, you might be inspired to think more deeply about the world around you — including in your own backyard.Dan Scott, a resident of the east side of Saint John and one of the organizers of a grassroots initiative called Taking Out the Trash, hopes to get people to not just think, but act, when it comes to taking care of the community. He wants to get 1,000 volunteers signed up for a community cleanup in Saint John on Saturday. The idea started when one of his friends, Willi
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The stage is set for an amphibian stampede on Campobello Island
All it takes is one perfect spring night. The temperature hovers around a hospitable 5 C, perhaps with some light rain to sweeten the deal."That is a cue for amphibians that live in vernal pools that is time for them to make their big move out of the vernal pool into the broader forest environment," said Pete Coleman in an interview with Information Morning Saint John.Coleman is with Roosevelt Campobello International Park on Campobello Island, N.B., which is preparing for its second annual so-c
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'Each drum has its own story': NSCAD exhibit explores Indigenous language revitalization
At the Treaty Space Gallery on NSCAD's port campus in Halifax, 13 meticulously painted hand drums have been hung on the walls, each expressing individual journeys of revitalizing Indigenous languages.Some are adorned with words in the language of the artists who created them, others feature cultural motifs tied to their language."Each drum has its own story," said artist Dr. Joshua Schwab-Cartas, who led the project, titled Living our Languages, which is made up of paintings on rawhide drums.The
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VideoSmoke seen on the Gaza skyline from southern Israel
Columns of smoke were seen rising from the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, as tensions in the Middle East region remain high. (AP video: Joeal Calupitan)
