When McClyment was just 10 years old, he recalls his Grade 3 teacher crying as she made the announcement to the class that U.S. president John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. This historical event is what inspired him to draw what was displayed at the David Kaye Gallery located in the heart of Toronto in January.
The blood red walls are decked out in her work: paintings of bears in pen and water colours, or vivid acrylics on canvas. Some are framed with vintage window panes, glass still intact.
“If only I’d known all the great things East General was doing all this time, I’d been banging on their door ages ago,” Downey said.
Women have been fighting for equal rights for centuries. Some risk their lives every day when they try to reveal the injustice done to other women in places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bosnia and Afghanistan. One of these women is journalist and human rights activist Sally Armstrong.
When Anisa made her way across the balance beam at the East York Gymnastics Club, her mother Tabassom Momtaheni was both ecstatic and proud. “It’s great for me,” Anisa’s mother said. “I never thought she was going to walk by herself.” What made this moment so remarkable was that Anisa, 6, had a brain tumour, which affected her balance and co-ordination, and made walking a nearly impossible task. But with a helping hand, Anisa was able to make her way across the beam. That helping hand belonged to Amanda Cyr.
Somebody was always there for him. That’s why Muhammad Masood Alam has chosen to be there for his East York community. “I was very inspired by my dad’s community work,” Alam said, about his life growing up in Pakistan. “He was always there for people, even in the middle of the night.”
“Because you’re predominantly in a male-dominated field, you tend to stand out,” says Noack. “ You can use this to your advantage. People will remember you. You have a chance to be a role model, and pave the way for a future generation of female technicians.”
Felicien, born and raised in Pickering, is a two-time former Olympic hurdler and was the first female Canadian athlete to win gold at the World Championship in Athletics in Paris in 2003.
A new ‘On To Ottawa’ trek is brewing in the home of a Toronto mother. This time, it’s to press the government to pay more attention to autism. Dee Gordon will walk from Etobicoke, where…
He shouldn’t have come home alive. But then he shouldn’t have enlisted in the first place. At least not when he did. At only 16 years old and underage, Don Stewart tricked his mother into signing a paper that would allow him to join the navy.