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Green Shirt Day is about building awareness around organ donor registration, and is in honour of the Logan Boulet Effect. Global News sat down with Brandy Hehn, a multimedia designer who designed the new Green Shirt Day design, but who also has a much closer connection to the day. The …
Read More »Journey towards reconciliation includes access to traditional ceremony
This is the third story in a Global News series called Journey Towards Reconciliation. To see previous stories, click here. Alberta singer-songwriter Donita Large has leaned on music as a way to heal for most of her life. When she was a child she would sing, loudly, at the Catholic …
Read More »How a resilient boat made a 14 month-long journey from Newfoundland to Norway — all by itself
Members of a Norwegian volunteer group found a boat that had been lost off the coast of Newfoundland in June 2021. (In the Same Boat/Facebook) When Jason Burton lost his boat off the coast of Newfoundland last year, he figured it was gone forever. Little did he know the 21-foot-long skiff …
Read More »Meeshe’s Journey: how a middle school running club helped her cross the finish line
There were cheers and a few tears when Princess Meeshe Robles crossed the finish line after completing a 5K race at Port Elgin Regional School. Robles has cerebral palsy and completed the race on a Rifton tricycle. Over the school term, the Grade 8 student went from needing help to biking uphill …
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