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Most NBA players spend their off-seasons in tropical locales, rolling around on pristine beaches and sipping on fine wines, their minds as far away from their jobs as possible. But on Tuesday, the Raptors’ Pascal Siakam chose to be in Toronto, handing out free laptops to kids in one of the city’s most underserved areas. “I mean, first […]
Mustafa’s delicate, haunting 2021 debut When Smoke Rises is a meditation on the grief he experienced after losing several friends to gun violence. It’s an emotion that’s unfortunately much too common in underserved communities around Toronto—communities like the singer-songwriter’s own Regent Park, which in many ways—socially, politically, economically—feels isolated from the rest of the city and the country. […]
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