Oscar-winning Canadian animator Co Hoedeman has died, National Film Board says
MONTREAL - Academy Award-winning Dutch-Canadian animator Co Hoedeman has died, the National Film Board of Canada said Tuesday.
The 'master of stop-motion animation' died at age 84 on Monday in Montreal, the NFB said.
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Toronto Sun
4 hours ago
- Toronto Sun
CHRISTMAS IN JULY: A beautiful friendship
Variety Village best pals Kaden Jaglowitz, 13, (L) and his his best buddy Georgio Gonsalves, 12, who met at the Variety Village Summer Camp three years ago, shoot hoops in the main sports clubhouse on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Photo by Jack Boland / Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network Most kids with disabilities have no friends. None. One Canadian university study put membership in that lonely kids' club at 53%. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Sad but true. Not so at Variety Village. Which brings us to the bustling lobby of that iconic east end sports centre the other day. Georgio Gonsalves, 12, glances out the big windows and his eyes spark. He bounces up and down. 'K!' he exclaims. K as in Kaden Jaglowitz, 13. The two boys are best buds. They have not seen each other for all of three days. They love each other. I mean real love. 'Kaden is so sweet,' Georgio tells me. 'I love Georgio,' says Kaden. Variety Village best pals Kaden Jaglowitz, 13, (L) and his his best buddy Georgio Gonsalves, 12, who met at the Variety Village Summer Camp three years ago, shoot hoops in the main sports clubhouse on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Photo by Jack Boland They have other things in common, including Down syndrome and heart surgery scars and the like. Loneliness, too – until that vanished three summers ago at Variety Village's legendary camps. By chance, their moms had enrolled them in the introductory sports camp. At the end of day one, Georgio's mom, Mary Kapetanos, came to get him. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'This is Kaden,' Georgio said, solemnly. 'He's my friend.' It was music to Mary's ears. Georgio had classmates, of course, but those relationships ended at the school bell. No one invited him for sleepovers. There were no BFFs – until that Variety camp, and Kaden. Kaden's mom, Julie, says: 'The camp counsellors told us Georgio got all sad about something and was sitting alone on a hill (on Village grounds) and Kaden came to him with a water bottle and put his arm around him, then they went off to play.' The boys have been a dynamic duo ever since. 'They're like brothers,' says Julie. 'Georgio is the sensitive kind of kid and Kaden is the nurturing type,' says Mary. 'Their relationship is so sweet, so kind and tender.' Read More This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Their moms say the boys even have their own language, which sounds like garble to you and me but is Shakespeare to them. The moms, both single, are like sisters now. Kaden and Julie have become part of Georgio's extended Greek family. The moms and sons went to Disney World together. In the Village fieldhouse, the boys demo their basketball skills for Sun photographer Jack Boland. Basketball is their sport, born of a Variety summer camp. They play for a junior Special Olympics team called the Basket Hounds. They learned to boogie at a Variety summer dance camp. Fave tunes include JoJo Siwa's Boomerang . Hey-hey-hey, I don't really care about what they say Won't let the haters get their way I'ma come back like a boomerang. Hey-hey-hey. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Variety Village best pals Kaden Jaglowitz, 13, (L) and his his best buddy Georgio Gonsalves, 12, who met at the Variety Village Summer Camp three years ago, shoot hoops in the main sports clubhouse on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Photo by Jack Boland / Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network Haters gonna hate. A total stranger once marched in off the sidewalk and asked Julie, who was on her porch with baby Kaden, 'does your child have Down syndrome?' The gall. 'I'm never wrong,' said the woman and marched off. Kaden spent weeks in ICU and could eat no solids until he was two. He was tiny. 'People used to come up and ask, 'Don't you feed your baby?'' says Julie. Baby Georgio, meanwhile, faced so much resistance from educators – one rejected him after an 'interview' at age two-and-a-half – his mom, a Montessori teacher, started her own school. Every parent of Down syndrome kids I've met over decades of the Sun Christmas Fund for Variety Village has similar stories. Society may be more open to the disability world these days, but we're a long way from real 'inclusion.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. But back to Kaden and Georgio. Tuckered out from basketball, the boys get out their 'Barbies.' That's what they call them all. Their stash ranges from Iron Man and dinosaurs to anime to actual Barbies, including one with Down syndrome features. The boys use them to work out thoughts and feelings, to confront troubles at school. For instance, one Barbie says to the other, 'Oh, yeah, you said I was stupid,' and a third doll cuts in, 'No, you're not!' And so on. You get the idea. Toronto SUN columnist Mike Strobel with Variety Village basketball buddies Kaden, 13, and his mom Julie (on left) and his best buddy Georgio, 12, and his mom Mary (on right) after hoops in the main sports clubhouse on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Photo by Jack Boland / Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network Two boys boisterously playing with dolls would draw stares in many places. But not at Variety Village. 'I don't know anywhere else, other than our homes,' says Julie, 'where kids can foster real friendships based on who they are without having to mask any part of themselves to fit it.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The boys are back at Variety's summer camps in July – starting together with swimming, though they both fret that they're going to sink. Other camps, for kids of all abilities, include taekwondo, art, drama, track and field and rock climbing – and basketball. You are lucky if you have a friendship like that of Kaden and Georgio. Variety Village remains its backdrop. You can help keep it so. Any donations in June to the Sun Christmas Fund – Christmas in July? – will be tripled thanks to Canadian Tire Jumpstart and a private donor, to a total of $150,000. Donate at or use the QR code on this page. Could be the start of a beautiful friendship. northchannelmike@ Columnists Toronto & GTA Sunshine Girls Sunshine Girls World
Winnipeg Free Press
5 hours ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
Couples tie the knot during a festival on an Amsterdam ring road
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Securing a coveted slot to exchange wedding rings on Amsterdam's usually traffic-choked ring road seemed like a good omen for Zuzanna Lisowska and Yuri Iozzelli's future life together. 'It just seemed like super fun idea,' Lisowska said. 'And, you know, statistics were on our side. There were 400 couples who wanted to do it, so we feel really lucky to have been chosen.' Friends and total strangers cheered and clapped as they told each other 'I do!' as part of a day-long festival on parts of the A10 highway that circles the Dutch capital closed to traffic for the day. 'It's a nice party we didn't have to organize,' said Iozzelli. Their only regret was not being able to bring their pet rabbit. 'It was too hot,' Lisowska said after exchanging rings with Iozzelli. The city that is known for partying said that some 600,000 people tried to get access to the ring road festival last month when more than 200,000 free tickets were made available. Curious city folk, from parents pushing strollers to students and grandparents, stopped to watch the weddings and enjoyed the one-off opportunity to see the road without the usual cacophony of cars. Among them was communications student Kyra Smit. 'It's really fun because it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing,' she said. 'It's so fun that you can say to people, wow, I'm married on the rings, so I really like this.' The day was packed with events from music performances to readings, meetups and a fun run, shortened because of the heat. Organizers even placed a temporary forest of more than 8,000 trees on the blacktop. The municipality laid on extra water taps and places where revellers could slap on sun block as temperatures soared to 30 degrees Celsius (86F) and upwards on the road surface. The city's official birthday is Oct. 27, reflecting the first time a variant of its name was used in an official document, and is staging celebratory events in the year leading up to that date. The festival on the ring road is the biggest so far and gave Amsterdam residents a new view of their ring road. 'It's quite strange because normally you drive here and now you're walking, so that's a totally different situation,' said Marjolein de Bruijne, who works close to the A10.
National Post
19 hours ago
- National Post
Kids summer must-haves: Editor-tested toys, clothes and SPF
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