The benevolence demonstrated by Gary Slaight, this year’s Humanitarian Award recipient at the Juno Awards last month, and the Slaight Family Foundation over which he presides, can be summarized...
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The benevolence demonstrated by Gary Slaight, this year’s Humanitarian Award recipient at the Juno Awards last month, and the Slaight Family Foundation over which he presides, can be summarized...
Five of the seven films being featured at the 15th annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival being held in Toronto April 18-25 will feature works directed or co-directed by women.
One of the...
Few bands mesh the political with the personal, the altruistic with the artistic, quite like Rosie & the Riveters. With their honeyed vocal harmonies, vintage 40s-era look, and conscious...
Nobel Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai used her appearance on David Letterman's My Next Guest Needs No Introduction program to promote women's education and equality, while confronting...
The Sam Roberts Band will anchor the Global Citizen advocacy organization's first-ever concert event in Vancouver, British Columbia — and its only open to those who join the social advocacy...
Action campaign AFTERMETOO — created by producer/director Aisling Chin-Yee, actress/author/activist Mia Kirshner, and actress/producer Freya Ravensbergen — has partnered with the...
Corks will be popping today at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox — home of the Toronto International Film Festival and its many attendant programs — as a key initiative passes a...
It’s not widely known but the story of Angelina Napolitano is a flashpoint in the early development of women’s right in Canada. And it is the cornerstone of “Swing Batter...
Humour is a highly effective and often subversive way of making a serious point, as any late-night television viewer can attest. Yet that strategy seldom crosses over into contemporary music,...
Consciously-minded rapper Common used his appearance at the 90th Academy Awards last night (March 4) to call out U.S. President Donald Trump as well as the National Rifle Association (NRA)....