The Brantford Downtown Outreach Team, otherwise known as BDOT, is a pilot program implemented in July of 2019 with a focus on reaching out to people struggling with addiction, homelessness and other challenges. The idea for the BDOT was born…
Community response to Brantford’s first sock drive is exceeding coordinators’ expectations, with well over 700 pairs of socks having been brought to Sophia’s Bakery in less than a week. The media company SoulPancake first launched the initiative, dubbed Socktober, four…
Several dozen Laurier Brantford students attended the ‘Eat So They Can’ fundraising dinner, held on Oct 20 at Wellington’s Presbyterian Church. It’s central purpose was to collect money to support orphans in foreign countries, through their five dollar vegetarian meals.…
“Put on long underwear!” Mrs. Losier worriedly reminded her son over the phone in one scene from In Their Shoes: The Experience, the documentary film made by Laurier Brantford student, Dan Losier. Those few words were possibly the only laughing…