We all live in a city : Father-son pair of landscapers help build shelters in Toronto encampments
Henry Lee Heinonen and his father Eric have very different perspectives on how they see the world, but over the summer, they both concluded they wanted to help people living in Toronto’s homeless encampments.
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Posted: Jan 22, 2021 4:24 PM ET | Last Updated: January 22
Henry Lee Heinonen, right, and his father Eric Lee, centre, helped build foam domes in a park near downtown Toronto.(Photo by Henry Lee Heinonen)
As Covid-19 cases climb and temperatures drop, this winter promises to only get worse for the approximately 8,700 Torontonians experiencing homelessness on any given day. Last spring, the city of Toronto quickly responded to the pandemic by expanding its number of shelters to reduce capacities and maintain physical distancing. But a spate of devastating shelter outbreaks in April left many occupants feeling unsafe and turning back to the streets.
Encampments have since sprung up in public spaces throughout the city, from Trinity Bellwoods and Alexandra Park to Moss Park and Cherry Beach. Despite repeated efforts by city workers to dismantle encampments and assurances that evicted occupants will be moved to “safe inside spaces,” the tents and makeshift shelters keep coming back. Fear of the city’s shelters is far from unfounded: a study recently published in the
The Weather Station has shared daring new song Atlantic .
The project is led by Tamara Lindeman, with new album Ignorance set to land on February 5th.
New single Atlantic is a hint of what s in store on that extraordinary album, a swirling mesh of sounds that recalls Talk Talk at their most experimental.
It s driven by a real sense of purpose, an attempt to pin down the lingering dystopian threats that seem to swirl around our daily lives.
Accomplished with gravitas and no small degree of beauty, Atlantic dips into what The Weather Station refers to as that feeling of dread.
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A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas
Any other year, theatergoers could seek out almost as many different staged versions of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale around town as there are official days in the holiday. During the pandemic, however, the most notable local production available for streaming is the unique one-man
tour de force that has been a popular draw at Maryland’s Olney Theatre Company for 11 years.
In fact, Olney held out hope until just last month that they could offer safe, reduced-capacity live performances of Paul Morella’s