Photo Credit: Matt Seymour via Unsplash Following the recent provincial announcement that the Niagara Region will enter the Grey-Lockdown level of the Ontario COVID-19 Response Framework, the City of St. Catharines has changed what businesses are allowed to...
Photo Credit: Ivan Diaz via Unsplash Amidst vaccine delays and supply issues, the Ontario government has administered over 500,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines to phase one priority populations and plans to expand its capacity to immunize phase two...
Photo Credit: Coldest Night of the Year A total of 415 walkers participated in this year’s first virtual Coldest Night of the Year event and raised over $150,000 for charity. Now in its 10th year, Coldest Night of the Year (CNOY) is an annual family-friendly...
Photo Credit: Unseen Histories via Unsplash As Black History Month draws to a close, a number of local events continue to be held virtually. These events seek to not only highlight the importance of Black history in Canada, but cultivate antiracist practices and...
Photo Credit: Melanie Lim via Unsplash While it’s been said countless times, 2020 was not the year anyone expected it would be. As much of the world focused on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many other national issues – like the issue of food affordability and...
Photo Credit: Mackenzie Gerry When Victoria Dewar started working with the Brock women’s hockey team as their social media coordinator, the coaching staff had just one question for her: how do we get more followers? It was this simple question that led...
Photo Credit: Gras Grun via Unsplash While the results of the US elections have been overshadowed (and for good reason) by the pro-Trump insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol Building, there were some important things to come of the November election that...
Photo Credit: Hakan Nural via Unsplash The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life for much of the globe over the last year. Travel has been restricted throughout the world, public events like conventions, concerts and any others that bring large crowds have almost...
Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com Maybe it’s a sign that I’m getting old and cynical, but I found myself rolling my eyes at To All The Boys: Always and Forever. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a sweet movie and the two leads remain as charming and well cast as...
Photo Credit: Joseph Gonzalez via Unsplash Rest in Peace to reading week. It always seems to fly by so quickly. We’re nearing the final weeks of the semester and it’s going to be a grind to get through. Tossing a couple new songs on your playlist can keep...
Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com I love Bridgerton... there is just no other way to say it. Simply put, Bridgerton makes me want to travel back in time and live as part of the Bridgerton family in 1813. This Netflix hit is scandalous, risque, endearing, emotional...
Photo Credit: Edward Cisneros via Unsplash Every once in a while, there’s an album that changes you. I suspect that Preacher’s Kid is going to be that album for a lot of people. It’s deeply personal and heartfelt while still speaking to a wide audience....
Photo Credit: MacKenzie Gerry Well that was unexpected. After spending the past 17 seasons coaching in the NHL, former Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock has been named the head coach of the University of Saskatchewan’s men’s hockey team. The news, first...
Photo Credit: Tim Gouw via Unsplash As I sit writing this with over a foot of snow on the ground and much more currently falling, Spring Training is here! Pitchers and catchers for all 30 major league clubs have now officially reported to Spring...
Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com Now that we’re a couple weeks removed from Super Bowl LV, I thought I’d loop back to a little nugget of news that might have gotten lost in the shuffle given all that was going on at the time. The most surprising bit of...
Photo Credit: Jerry Yu via Unsplash The NWHL season was supposed to last about two weeks. We were supposed to see each team play five “regular season” games before the Isobel Cup playoffs started. We were supposed to see the Isobel Cup raised and for...
