Stories of Impact

And Justice for All

Blog / Community Stories / Stories / The Well Endowed Podcast / Thrive Magazine February 15, 2025

And Justice for All

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And Justice for All

Blog / Community Stories / Stories / Thrive Magazine February 28, 2025

Artistic Accelerando

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Artistic Accelerando
Street Cred

Blog / Community Stories / Thrive Magazine March 20, 2025

Street Cred

Beryl Bacchus had a problem. iHuman’s drop-in space, HYPE, which once served 80 youths every week, was now meeting the needs of 500. As the executive director of iHuman Youth Society, Bacchus needed to find room. So, HYPE relocated to a larger area of iHuman’s building and rebranded to go with their new digs: iSucceed. […]

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Street Cred
Kids Wanna Rock

Community Stories / Thrive Magazine March 14, 2025

Kids Wanna Rock

Ever since black artists of the 1950s taught us all that it was OK to take a bit of the blues, and add some R&B rhythm to it all, rock ‘n’ roll has become one of our most democratic art forms. Putting aside the expansive perfectionism of bands like Pink Floyd or Rush, rock music […]

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Kids Wanna Rock
Artistic Accelerando

Blog / Community Stories / Stories / Thrive Magazine February 28, 2025

Artistic Accelerando

Violin has always been part of Jacques Forestier’s life, but he doesn’t remember the first time he held or even heard one, because humans don’t form memories before two years old. “I don’t remember a time when I didn’t have a violin,” he says. “I’d say my first memory probably goes back to when […]

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Artistic Accelerando
And Justice for All

Blog / Community Stories / Stories / The Well Endowed Podcast / Thrive Magazine February 15, 2025

And Justice for All

When someone under the age of 18 faces criminal charges, they will go to the Youth and Family Court. If convicted, the court will sentence that person. This might mean that the court imposes a restriction on a youth who punched his friend on the bus, barring them from taking city transit, and puts them […]

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And Justice for All
Bear Necessities

Blog / Community Stories / Stories / Donor Stories / Thrive Magazine December 30, 2024

Bear Necessities

Dianne Johnstone has always felt drawn to the North. Her vacations haven’t been to tropical beaches or sun-drenched resorts. They have been to snowy landscapes, mountain ranges and the vast, breathtaking Arctic. “That’s where I feel comfortable,” she reflects. Her travels, including a trip to the Arctic Circle last year, inspired something deeper: a desire […]

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Fundraising After The Flames

Blog / Community Stories / Stories / Thrive Magazine December 23, 2024

Fundraising After The Flames

On July 22, during an already dry, hot summer afternoon, a fire started near the Jasper Transfer Station. Over the next hour, 30-kilometre-an-hour winds blew two southern fires north towards the station, turning them all into a single blaze with 50-metre flames that engulfed the town and turned a 6,000-plus hectare area into what’s become […]

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Fundraising After The Flames
Circle of Strength

Blog / Community Stories / Stories / Thrive Magazine December 13, 2024

Circle of Strength

Jordan Reiniger, Executive Director of Boyle Street Community Services, says that the organization’s new building, okimaw peyesew kamik, which is Cree for King Thunderbird Centre, will be far more than simply a new home for the organization. Since 1971, Boyle Street has been helping those experiencing homelessness and poverty in Edmonton. Up until last year, […]

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Circle of Strength
AGAin!

Community Stories / Thrive Magazine December 5, 2024

AGAin!

When a group of women involved in the Edmonton arts scene first met to discuss the idea of putting on an art exhibition, few would have imagined it one day becoming one of the country’s largest art galleries. Few, that is, outside of Art Association member Maud Bowman, who envisioned growing the exhibition of loaned […]

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AGAin!
Fantastic Four

Community Stories / Thrive Magazine November 25, 2024

Fantastic Four

Four is a powerful number. The four cardinal directions. The four elements. Its satisfying symmetry is found in science, math, religion and music. The Hellenic-Canadian Community’s production, 4: Dances of the World, gets its name from the four cultures represented in the production: Chinese, Greek, Indian and Mexican, but it takes its meaning from the […]

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Fantastic Four

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