The term giving back has become somewhat of an empty buzzword in recent years, but one man is doing his part to restore its literal, altruistic meaning. Alex Assali is a Syrian refugee in Berlin who recognizes the value of paying it forward. On weekends he sets up a small table at
“I’m not lost. If you are stuck out in the cold, please take me to keep warm!” So reads a message left on a coat wrapped around a downtown Halifax lamp pole. The giveaway is part of an initiative by a group of eight children in the community who are
On Monday, November 23, 10 of Calgary’s top chefs will join forces to cook meals for regular guests of The Mustard Seed Foothills homeless shelter. The dishes will feature healthy, locally grown and produced foods, albeit pared down in opulence compared to the chefs’ regular creations. “We work together all the time
Astonishingly, some people still think unemployment among Canada’s homeless population is a matter of personal choice and not lack of opportunity, a notion that’s being duly disproven by a Winnipeg program called Mission: Off the Streets (MOST). MOST hires homeless people to clean up the city’s downtown streets for $11/hour, which is 30 cents
It’s pretty much every bride’s worst nightmare: everything’s been paid for, the last-minute details have been sorted, you’ve had your final fitting for your wedding dress….then the groom bails. That’s exactly what happened to 27-year-old Quinn Duane, when her groom got cold feet less than a week before the wedding
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