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From the celebrated style of grandmas and grandpas in North America’s Chinatowns to Martha Stewart’s new affair with cannabis, we have compiled some of this week’s best good news stories from thestar.com.
1. ‘We want people to feel joy again’: Walking tours part of new city program to help Toronto businesses hit by COVID-19
Mayor John Tory is urging residents to become tourists in their own city and explore new neighbourhoods in an effort to help support local businesses being crushed by the impacts of COVID-19.
The initiative, called ShowLoveTO, will launch programming in all 25 electoral wards, including video art installations and self-guided walking tours that Tory promised will introduce even lifelong residents to hidden gems.
2. ‘The hate is not helpful.’ Raptors fans come together in defence of Siakam with #PascalLoveProject
When two Raptors fans saw hurtful remarks about Pascal situs slot deposit qris Siakam and a racist petition circulating online, they knew it did not represent the greater Raptor fan base. That’s when they decided to start the #PascalLoveProject to counter the negativity with kindness.
“What we’re trying to do is get people to send in their words of encouragement, their cards, pictures, any drawings they do or their kids do, send it to us to put together for this book that we want to send to Pascal,” creator Nick Zaman said.
3. Grandma and grandpas in Chinatowns across North America are being called fashion icons
When you think of Chinatown, you might think of colourful boutiques, one-of-a-kind heritage buildings and bakeries filled with steamed buns and sweets. But a hotbed of sartorial flair?
A new book is pressing the case, and a pretty convincing one, that the “poh pohs” and “gung gungs” — grandmas and grandpas — of North America’s Chinatowns inhabit a savvy street style that should be celebrated.
4. Toronto’s Ebony ‘WondaGurl’ Oshunrinde looking to reveal her own sound
Seven years after she contributed to Jay-Z’s “Magna Carta Holy Grail” album on the track “The Crown,” while still a teenager, Toronto’s Ebony “WondaGurl” Oshunrinde has quickly ascended the heights of respectability as the pre-eminent female hip-hop producer in the business.
5. Disability activist Melissa Blake is modelling in her first runway show at New York Fashion Week
Melissa Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle disorder and stands a little under four feet tall, couldn’t find jeans or dresses in her size. Paging through Glamour and Cosmopolitan magazines, she didn’t see a single person who looked like her.
Now she is a fashion role model herself.
6. ‘We’re the underdogs.’ How the Iroquois Nationals took their rightful place in lacrosse’s World Games, with a heartfelt assist from the Irish
The Iroquois Nationals will participate in the next World Games.
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That should not come as a shock to anyone who understands lacrosse and its origins as a game given by the Creator to the Indigenous people of North America.
But it could not have happened if not for the coronavirus pandemic, Black Lives Matter, social media, Canada’s support and the selflessness of Ireland’s national team.
7. ‘That spirit still lives.’ Annual Terry Fox Run will continue, virtually, this Sunday despite pandemic
Pat McMonagle has participated in every Terry Fox Run since the annual fundraising event began four decades ago. The 72-year-old Toronto resident isn’t going to let a global pandemic stop her from running now.
8. ‘Do you go in that, or is it just art?’: How a kayak makes Lake Ontario a bigger part of Toronto city life
A kayak, or canoe, allows access to places difficult or impossible mahjong ways to get to otherwise. In the Humber Marshes, passages through reeds lead to lily pad ponds, mostly silent but for distant city sounds drifting in. The Toronto Islands has a maze of passages to paddle as well, and entire islands and secret lagoons are accessible only by the tiniest of watercraft.
9. New TORONTO sign built to last, shine bright — and repel invading critters
The seven letters will still be “Azo Sans Bold” font, stand a commanding four metres including the base, and will be internally lit, with Os begging to be climbed in.
But the surface will gleam more than its oft-scuffed forebear, the lights will be brighter and more versatile, the base will be solid concrete and the letter frames are abuse-proof welded and bolted quarter-inch aluminum.
10. Martha Stewart, blissed out on CBD, is doing just fine
In the world of the 79-year-old goddess of domesticity, cannabis, in its myriad forms, is a societal good. Her friend Snoop Dogg introduced her to its palliative effects. For Martha Stewart, making cannabis products, which she produced with the Canadian company Canopy Growth, and partaking in them is about keeping up with the times.