WATCH: A feel good story for your Friday. Van Gogh Designs Furniture will donate furniture worth $170,000 over a 2-3 year period to Surrrey Memorial Hospital. Meet Jeet Dhindsa President and CEO Of VanGogh Designs who joined DARPAN to talk about this philanthropic act during these #COVID19 times.
Based in South Surrey Van Gogh Designs has been manufacturing handcrafted furniture locally since 1993.
Two poets -- one Canadian, one international -- will take home $65,000 apiece at the Griffin gala in Toronto's Distillery District.
Seven out of 10 respondents also said they support a ban of all single-use plastics used for food packaging.
The IVAs handed out a total of $16,000 in honours to eight emerging Indigenous writers at a Vancouver gala on Tuesday.
Adults are once again invited to enjoy Playland in an unforgettable atmosphere with new and unique entertainment during every Friday night in July
Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said the SDG Gender Index launched on Monday "should serve as a wake-up call to the world", the Guardian reported.
Teaching braille and learning to read large print was not always done together because audio was cheaper and easier to provide