Marina Abramovic is an internationally known performance artist. She teaches her fans “art pieces that experiment with time, metaphysics and the human body.” These creative exercises, which are instructions in “endurance, concentration, self-control and willpower” are intended to “reboot your life” (Guardian Weekly, 18 February, 2022). In 2020, she convinced a group of volunteers to try tree-hugging as an antidote to the isolation caused by the Covid pandemic.
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BC Cuts COVID Restrictions. Critics Say It’s Dangerous
By Moira Wyton, The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
British Columbia will drop its major remaining COVID-19 protective measures Friday despite modelling suggesting a sixth wave could send 100 new people to hospital each day by mid-May.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry also said today that second booster shots will be available to older and vulnerable people to boost waning immunity.
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Just a day in the lab seeking COVID in sewage
By Morgan Sharp, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The laboratory in a downtown Toronto university building is under construction, its emergency wash station getting an upgrade, but the daily testing of incoming wastewater samples for COVID-19 goes on unabated.
Samples arrive in Nalgene-sized bottles from sites all over the city — large treatment plants and community and congregate sites, such as university residences, shelters and long-term care homes — and Nora Dannah has to walk down to shipping and receiving to collect them.
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The 2022 season for Cortes Island’s new non-profit: the Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery
The Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery has been holding exhibitions every summer for close to 25 years. Around 800 visitors come every season, and surprisingly enough, most of them are Cortes residents. Up until last fall, the gallery has operated under the auspices of the Whaletown Community Club, now it has become a non-profit.
“We finally decided that in order to qualify for student grants for summer work programs, we needed to be a non-profit,” explained board member Kristen Schofield-Sweet. “That created, of course, a situation where now we need to have an AGM and we have to elect a board.”
The gallery is also hiring a manager, who they hope to introduce at the AGM on Saturday, June 5, 2022.
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Toronto’s Unhoused and Unprepared (pt 3): The winter plan
By Katia Galati and Talha Hashmani, CJRU 1280 AM, Toronto through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Toronto’s winter months amplify the unsafe living conditions faced by the city’s homeless population, many of whom are forced to brave a night without shelter or warmth. In a recent article by the Toronto Star, workers at St. Michael’s hospital reported a rise in cold-related injuries including frostbite, painful foot infections, and life-threatening hypothermia amongst those living out in the streets..
With the shelter system nearing capacity and facing staffing issues, those left on the streets are forced to seek alternative shelter arrangements. Shuttle buses, heating vents, and subway stations are some of the many popular spots the unhoused go when they are met with little support from the city.
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