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Finding art in all the right places
Nolan Bryant
obituary
Health advocate Mona Forrest led the creation of Montreal women’s centre
Mona Forrest Courtesy of The Canadian Cancer Survivor Network
report on business
Toronto’s Centre for Social Innovation launches fundraising campaign as it faces ballooning costs
Cara Benjamin-Pace, executive director of Newcomer Kitchen, is seen in her office at the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto, Thursday, October 3, 2024. (Galit Rodan/The Globe and Mail)
theatre and performance
Toronto Symphony Orchestra to receive $15-million pledge from Barrett Family Foundation
Barrett Principal Education Conductor and Community Ambassador Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser conducting the TSO at the 2023 Free Community Concert
report on business
Pitching in: Fundraising for UHN’s Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Andy MacPherson participates in the UHN Foundation’s annual Rally for Rehab in Toronto on Sept. 8, 2024. Mr. MacPherson has helped organize UHN’s Toronto Rehab’s Rally for Rehab, an annual run/walk fund raising event, and he raised $3,500 this year. MANDATORY CREDIT: Tim Fraser/University Health Network
report on business
OpenAI looks to convert itself to for-profit company, source says
FILE - Open AI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman (C) speaks at the Advancing Sustainable Development through Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI event on Sept. 23, 2024, in New York. (Bryan R. Smith/Pool Photo via AP)
canada
Regional groups expelled from national Indigenous women’s association ahead of AGM
Native Women's Association of Canada chief executive Lynne Groulx takes her seat after speaking during an event launching a graphic guide to genocide, Monday, June 19, 2023 in Ottawa. The association says it has been forced to lay off roughly half its workforce due to a major federal funding shortfall. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
film
Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve donates to Montreal independent cinema
Roxanne Sayegh, executive director, Cinema du Parc, Cinema Beaubien and Cinema du Musee poses in their theatre in Montreal, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve has made a major donation to Montreal's Cinema du Parc, part of a trend of well-known figures in the movie industry putting big money into local theatres. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
report on business
Pitching in: Founding the MAID Family Support Society
Sig Novak, founder of the MAID Family Support Society, is photographed at her home in Burnaby, B.C. on September 3, 2024. (Jennifer Gauthier/The Globe and Mail) �
obituary
Montreal charity founder Sheila Kussner aimed to give hope to people with cancer
Sheila Kussner poses for a portrait in the den in her home in Montreal on July 18, 2023. The den was made as almost a shrine to her by her late husband. Kussner started the foundation Hope & Cope to help cancer survivors. The foundation was designed to meet the emotional and psychosocial needs of cancer survivors and their caregivers. Kussner is herself a cancer survivor from a young age. She is a master fundraiser and has been able to raise millions of dollars over the years for the foundation. (26/06/2023) (Andrej Ivanov/The Globe and Mail)
canada
Home-sharing platform funded by N.S. government results in just 23 leases in a year
In the year since Nova Scotia invested in a home-sharing platform aimed at helping renters find affordable rental housing, a total of 23 leases have been signed. Minister of Nova Scotia Municipal Affairs and Housing John Lohr speaks to reporters in Halifax, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
world
VP nominee JD Vance to dissolve last vestige of mothballed charity, give its $11,000 to Appalachia
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio speaks at a campaign event, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Byron Center, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
international business
Seeds are gifts from nature, a major organic producer says. It’s ending sales and giving them away
A greenhouse shows past work with the garlic harvest at Fruition Seeds in Naples, N.Y., on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. The multimillion-dollar organic seed company has declared that "seeds are gifts" and will be giving them away after this month. (AP Photo/Cara Anna)
canada
B.C. charity offers pet fostering when owners go to rehab
Christie Staniforth sits for a photo outside the Hope for Freedom Glory House recovery home where she has been staying. She has been in recovery and living without her foster cat, Nala who she struggled to find care for. Paige Taylor White/The Globe and Mail
world
World Central Kitchen says Palestinian staff member killed in Gaza
FILE - Palestinians inspect a vehicle with the logo of the World Central Kitchen wrecked by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, April 2, 2024. The Israeli military's attack on an aid convoy in Gaza that killed seven people was the result of serious failures of defense procedures, mistaken identification and errors in decision-making, according to an Australian investigation that was made public Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah, File)
world
Largest housing provider for migrant children engaged in pervasive sexual abuse, U.S. says
FILE - Buildings that house juveniles and operations on the grounds of Southwest Key Campbell, a shelter for children that have been separated from their parents, is shown June 28, 2018, in Phoenix. Southwest Key, the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children has been accused of “severe, pervasive, and unwelcome sexual abuse of and harassment” of children in its care, the Justice Department said Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
report on business
Pitching in: Fundraising for Childhood Cancer Canada
Clays for Kids Fundraising Event - September 2023 (Left to right: Angie Ramalho, Amber Bernard, Jennifer Hooper)
on the scene
Face The World Foundation supports B.C.’s needy, The Butterfly Ball raises $1.1 million for kids
Nolan Bryant
film
‘This is about a love of movies’: How Toronto’s Revue Cinema became a streaming-era success story
Revue Cinema in Toronto, Ontario on July 2, 2024. The Revue Film Society, the not-for-profit board that operates the historic cinema in the city’s west end, obtained an interim 10-day injunction from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, preventing the theatre’s landlords from “evicting, locking out, or otherwise interfering with Revue’s business operations” until trial or further court order. (Carlos Osorio/The Globe and Mail)
opinion
With donations down and demand up, charities are under pressure
Bruce MacDonald