Food Banks Canada / York University Study / Ontario Pharmacists Association / Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer / United Way Stair Climb / Dylan Kalambay / KhaRå Martin - Black Community Mixtapes

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• Ann Rohmer looks at Food Banks Canada’s landmark Canada-wide Poverty Report Cards highlight deepening food insecurity and failures from all levels of government.

• Glynn Perkins has a York University study that finds how relatable, welcoming cities play large role in migrant success. Just how welcoming Toronto and other global cities are to migrants can play a large role in their success at navigating physical and social barriers to reestablish their careers, found York University researchers. The researchers wanted to know how big cities, such as Toronto, one of the largest international, financial, and business centres attracting skilled migrants from all around the world, enables or constrains migrant careers and integration. The answer, they say, is important for cities and organizations serving the migrant population as well as employers, policymakers, and even migrants.

• Ann Rohmer has information on how Ontario Pharmacists can treat and prescribe 6 additional ailments (on top of the 13 permitted as of last January).

• Jim Lang looks at the success of last weekend’s road hockey to conquer cancer and where the fundraising goes.

• Tina Cortese speaks to a 99 year old man who will climb the CN tower on Oct 21 for the United Way. It will be his 3rd time making the climb.

• Cristina Lavecchia discusses Heart and Sole: The Dylan Kalambay Story documentary film which premieres in Toronto on October 14th at University of Toronto's Innis College Town Hall Theatre. In November of 2020, Toronto high school basketball star Dylan Kalambay’s world turned upside down. He experienced heart failure at the young age of 16. Over the next six months he had open heart surgery and not long after, thanks to the generosity of an organ donor and their family, Dylan received a life-saving heart transplant. In the fall of 2021, after a long and challenging recovery, Dylan stepped back onto the court to pursue his dream of obtaining an NCAA Division 1 basketball scholarship, and becoming the first player ever to do so with a donated heart.

• Shaliza Bacchus speaks with KhaRå Martin, a young Toronto filmmaker, musician and actor, about her new five-part docu-series called Black Community Mixtapes that breathes new life into the personal archives gathered by individual Canadians to shine a light on life-changing moments in Black Canadian history.