Digging in soil and tending a garden can improve your mental and physical health, according to gardening experts, so why not get your hands dirty during the COVID-19 pandemic and do some planting? Isaac Crosby is a program coordinator and the lead hand in urban agriculture at Evergreen Brickworks in Toronto. Crosby is from Anderdon […]
May 15th a.m. headlines Starting tomorrow marinas, boat clubs and public boat launches can open, along with private parks and campgrounds for trailers and R’V’s under a full season contract. On Tuesday following the long weekend, we enter into phase one of the economic recovery plan when retailers with street entrances, seasonal businesses and medical procedures […]
“Calling All Dancers” is the first single in over a year from the Godfather of Powwow Step, DJ Shub. It’s also the first on his newly formed record label, Shub Music, partnered with The Orchard’s (Sony Music) new Canadian office. Shub is part of the new generation of Indigenous artists making a cultural and social […]
This year there are eleven writers on the longlist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and Curve Lake First Nation author Drew Hayden Taylor is one of them. The prize, worth $15,000, is awarded to the best book of humour each year. Taylor is nominated for his play “Cottagers and Indians,” which chronicles the […]
COVID-19 a.m. news headlines… April 29th One in seven Ontario residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 are health-care workers, And the rate is steadily rising according to provincial data. Some Toronto drivers are taking advantage of lighter traffic on the highways, as if they were a race track. Toronto police report a 20-percent increase […]
The coronavirus pandemic can’t stop Christa Couture. Aside from her gig as 106.5 ELMNT FM’s midday host, she is an award-winning performer and recording artist, non-fiction writer, and an advocate for Native Women in the Arts. She is also proudly Indigenous (mixed Cree and Scandinavian), queer, disabled, and a mom. In March she was getting […]
JUNO-nominated Métis artist Amanda Rheaume’s latest single, “The Best,” is sitting at the top of the Indigenous Music Countdown this week. It’s a successful follow-up to her earlier single, “The Skin I’m In,” which hit No. 1 on the Indigenous Music Countdown in May, 2019. She has long tried to employ her music as a […]
Genevieve Fisher is about to drop her new single, “Someone Else,” but she’ll have to hold off on performing it live anytime soon. Fisher is one of the more highly acclaimed Indigenous singer-songwriters working in Canada today. Among her accolades, she’s earned Female Artist of the Year nominations at the 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and […]
“Warrior Heart.” “This is Me.” These are just two of Indigenous singer-songwriter Shawnee’s powerful songs. Her heritage is Mohawk, from the Six Nations of the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. We caught up with Shawnee in Edmonton where she’s hunkered down during the coronavirus pandemic. How are you dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic? Some days […]
There’s no doubt that virtually everyone in Toronto is suffering in one form or another from the COVID-19 outbreak. But one group in particularly dire straits is Toronto’s Indigenous community. “90 percent of the 70,000 Indigenous people in Toronto live at or below the poverty line,” says Julie Cookson, Executive Director of Anishnawbe Health Foundation […]