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Hamilton Spectator
10-06-2025
- Automotive
- Hamilton Spectator
Big hearts on bikes rise money for local sick child
Next weekend marks the Ridin' For Kids Foundations' annual charity bike run, inviting all those with motorcycles to take a ride throughout southeastern Alberta to support a sick child and her family. This year's ride will support nine-year-old Myah Litowsky, who has been diagnosed with multiple rare autoimmune diseases, including juvenile idiopathic arthritis, lupus, juvenile dermatomyositis and interstitial lung disease. She also has bone complications, including spinal fractures. The funds raised during the fifth annual run and the event after the fact will go directly to Litowsky's family, said Ivan Reimer, a member of the Ridin' For Kids team. On June 14, those looking to ride will meet at the Irvine Hotel for a pancake breakfast, which Reimer expressed immense gratitude to the owners of the Hotel and the volunteers who will help to run the event, starting at 9 a.m. At 11 a.m, it will be kickstands up, and those participating will ride along the route before finishing off at Dayzoff Pub in Medicine Hat. 'There will be a huge silent auction, multiple live auction items, door prizes, live music, just a lot of fun and ways to support the family,' said Reimer. This year, they have been overwhelmed with the generosity of the community in the sheer number of items for the live and silent auctions, and they are incredibly grateful for everyone's work volunteering, donating, or even simply participating in the event when the time comes. Last year, they were able to donate over $73,000 to the family they supported, and hope to be able to do something similar for the Litowsky family. 'We've got support from all over Alberta. There are bikers that come down from Edmonton, there are bikers coming from Grand Prairie this year. There's bikers coming from Calgary, from Regina, from Saskatoon, and we expect to see about 300 bikes this year in total on this run,' said Reimer. He noted that they will have an Interac machine available for those seeking to participate in the auction who may not carry cash. Those who cannot attend the event but wish to donate can send funds via e-transfer to ridinforkids@ . In addition, the Ridin' For Kids team will be in the parking lot of Saamis Heights Car & Dog Wash and Reg's Homestyle Meats & Deli Saturday, hosting a charity barbeque from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. All proceeds from the barbeque and from car wash sales today will go towards supporting the family. Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page .
Global News
06-06-2025
- General
- Global News
Calgary senior stuck at home due to broken elevator, misses death of loved one
It was just six months ago when an excited Hilda Reimer signed the papers for a condo unit at Chinook Manor. 'I thought, 'This will be my last home'… I actually lived here 40 years ago when they were rentals.' Unfortunately, Reimer broke her pelvis during the winter move. Since then, she's been recovering and waiting for warmer weather to finally enjoy her new home to the fullest. 'I have a scooter to go longer distances, I was looking forward to all that. But here we are, stuck in our homes.' Just days after her 82nd birthday, Reimer says the building's lone elevator stopped working. She hoped it would be fixed after the May long weekend, but now it's been three weeks — and she's been trapped inside ever since. Story continues below advertisement 'We're prisoners in my home. It's quite the barrier — and it's not impacting me, it's impacting many people in this building.' Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "We're prisoners in my home. It's quite the barrier — and it's not impacting me, it's impacting many people in this building." Throughout this turbulent period, Reimer's missed important medical appointments. Her recovery has slowed, as have the visits. 'Friends of mine can't come over, and I can't go over to see them. Some of them are older and can't do stairs,' Reimer laughed. 'We're a bunch of old farts.' Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "We're a bunch of old farts." There's one moment Reimer missed out on that she'll never get back. 'My former husband passed away in hospice just recently,' she said. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'I couldn't go to see him and he was asking for me. 'I will always regret that I couldn't go and visit him.' Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "I will always regret that I couldn't go and visit him." Reimer's son, Darren Delorme, has been working through that grief alongside his mother. 'That put a lot of stress on myself, my mom, my dad… because she couldn't go see him in hospice.' He's spent much of the past three weeks lending a hand to his mother and others. 'I've come to help her do laundry, the facility is in the basement… Somebody had a big suitcase, I helped her carry it up — she was just grunting trying to carry her luggage and I carried that up to the fifth floor. I encountered someone bringing groceries in that I helped with… it's just not fair.' Story continues below advertisement 'I don't know what I would have done without, him really,' Reimer explains. She says there's still no word on when the missing part needed to fix the elevator may arrive. Most affected people believe the building's owners are doing everything they can to fix the problem — but also think it could have been avoided altogether. 'This problem could have been taken care of had (the condo board) had the part ready.' 'They'd been recommended to upgrade parts but they chose not to, and here we are.' Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "They'd been recommended to upgrade parts but they chose not to, and here we are." Global News reached out to Diversified Property Management, which looks after Chinook Manor. When asked directly if the group is expediting the repairs as quickly as possible, representatives declined to comment. The home is advertised as a 40+ community. While not a senior's home by definition, Delorme says many of his mom's neighbours are older and face similar challenges. 'It stands to reason there's going to be a higher population of seniors living here with that criteria.' 'I would suggest to the (condo board president) to do a survey of this whole building and see who would have purchased a unit. If it was a five-storey walkup, I can probably tell you… nobody.' Story continues below advertisement It's not an uncommon issue for seniors to run into, according to a local advocate. 'We certainly work with partners who have brand new, beautiful buildings,' explained Larry Mathieson, president & CEO of Unison Alberta. 'But there are a lot of buildings in the province where they're older… been around for decades. (Owners) are constantly attending to things that might present a safety or mobility issue.' It's something Unison witnessed first hand just a few years ago. 'At our (Elder Abuse Shelter), we had to completely rebuild the elevator — not just because there was problems with it, but replacement issues. (Repairing elevators) is a fairly specialized trade,' Mathieson said. 'Elevators like this that are fairly deep into their life cycle… very quickly parts can become obsolete.' Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "Elevators like this that are fairly deep into their life cycle… very quickly parts can become obsolete." Mathieson says his group and others can offer resources to seniors who find themselves in situations like this and haven't been able to get a resolution with their housing provider. Reimer's only been able to take in the warm summer air through her third-floor balcony, but she's hoping that all changes for the better, soon. 'It's a comfortable home, but c'mon — you've got a life to live and when you're older, you gotta live it… because you don't know how long you've got.'
Winnipeg Free Press
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
‘Curious kind of communion'
To recruit vocalists for her interspecies choir, Jami Reimer slipped on a pair of hip waders and eased into the swampy waters of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Clutching three microphones and a flashlight, the bioacoustic artist masqueraded as a talent scout, eavesdropping on the 'erotic refrain' of an amphibian mating chorus. What she heard changed the way she understood the possibilities of sound and the responsibilities of recording it. SUPPLIED Jami Reimer's Soft Tongues features her amphibian recordings in Brazil mixed with her own voice and archived recordings of extinct frog species. In Soft Tongues, Reimer's upcoming performance piece at the Cluster Festival of New Music and Integrated Arts, the humming, croaking and hammering rhythms her recording devices captured mesh with her own voice, along with archived recordings of extinct frog species dating to 1950. Though the languages differed, the Winnipeg-raised Reimer was reminded by the warty chorus of formative experiences in Mennonite church choirs, where vocalization patterns are handed down between generations as acts of communal perseverance. 'In field-recording practices, you don't get to access connection unless you know when to quiet your own voice and become available as a listener,' says Reimer, who embedded with the University of Campinas' Amphibian Natural History lab to collect her earliest samples of frogsong. 'These choruses are imprints of how a habitat is doing. They sound out the health of a wetland.' While completing her MFA at Simon Fraser University, Reimer, who still lives in Vancouver, was inspired to explore bioacoustics — the study of animal communication through sound — by her ecologist sister, whose ornithological research project coincided with an amphibian chorus event. 'I was pretty captivated how the same recording technologies used in music were being used to interface with other species,' says Reimer, who sang with Camerata Nova and in various choirs during her undergraduate studies at Canadian Mennonite University. An obsession with amphibian soundscapes developed, informing Soft Tongues, which Reimer describes as 'a bioacoustic opera,' that fulfils a craving for collective vocalization, a practice the artist says serves as both a physical and spiritual reminder of interconnectivity. SUPPLIED photos Jami Reimer's Soft Tongues will be performed at the Cluster Festival. Reimer will perform Soft Tongues on June 6 at the West End Cultural Centre as part of Cluster's Oscillations program, a double concert also featuring Dirge, a collaboration between Franco-Manitoban beatmaker Rayannah, Chilean psych-rocker Los Dias Floreados and contemporary dancer Carol-Ann Bohrn. 'Field recording has really taught me how to quiet myself and become available to another species I will never understand, listening to it the way I would engage with music,' says Reimer, who will also perform a set of original music at Public Domain on June 14, opening with Toronto's Avalon Tassonyi for Winnipeg's Virgo Rising. 'It's a curious kind of communion.' While Reimer's choral project centres on living harmonies, Eliot Britton and Patrick Hart's new work for Cluster is built around an impersonal voice that satirizes the growing influence of artificial intelligence and large language models as a replacement for genuine human interaction. 'Powered by relentlessly enthusiastic algorithms,' the Quigital Corporate Retreat (June 10 at the WECC) invites audience members to dress in their drabbest business-casual attire for a series of 'product launches, corporate loyalty tests and passive-aggressive email lounge ballads.' It's all made up, but as a corporate collective, Quigital's overlords hope its work inspires laughter as much as it provokes tech-driven anxiety in a 'digital panic room' of their own design. Though neither the Winnipeg-born Britton, a co-director of Cluster and a professor in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, nor Hart, who has scored commercials for McDonalds, Microsoft and Old Navy, has seen the series, their acquaintances have frequently compared the ongoing Quigital project to the TV series Severance, the Emmy-winning series that skewers office-culture soullessness and technocratic overreach. Like Lumon, Severance's pseudo-religious, cult-like corporation driven by split personality, Quigital is both ambiguous and pointed. 'We strive to do the same thing, where Quigital is both our star and our villain, but the most sympathetic, wonderful, appealing villain,' says Britton. Earlier projects by the collective include the fake launch, in 2020, of a series of home security devices powered by AI. 'Each product was designed to be incredibly appealing, which also makes them incredibly menacing,' says Britton. 'There's then this hilarious, awkward tension that emerges,' adds Hart. That aura permeates the group's upcoming retreat, where vocalist Sara Albu and the Montreal-based Architek Percussion will use improvised sound, automated language and looping, robotic delivery to simultaneously mock the AI movement while also admitting humanity's initial defeat. SUPPLIED Jami Reimer performing. 'It's a comedy of modern life that everyone very intuitively understands,' says Hart. The Cluster Festival, founded in 2009, runs from June 3-10. A full schedule is available at Full festival passes cost $60. Ben WaldmanReporter Ben Waldman is a National Newspaper Award-nominated reporter on the Arts & Life desk at the Free Press. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Ben completed three internships with the Free Press while earning his degree at Ryerson University's (now Toronto Metropolitan University's) School of Journalism before joining the newsroom full-time in 2019. Read more about Ben. Every piece of reporting Ben produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
Edmonton Journal
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Edmonton Journal
Game 7 fates far too unkind to Toronto goaltenders through the years
Article content A look at how Leaf goalies fared in recent Game 7s: May 13, 2013 at Boston GOALIE: James Reimer FINAL SCORE: 5-4, Bruins WHAT HAPPENED: After winning twice by 2-1 scores to go the distance, the Leafs were up 4-1 with 11 minutes to play. Then the Causeway Street Collapse ensued. Nathan Horton scored, Matt Frattin was stopped by Tuukka Rask on a breakaway (Rask a former Leaf pick), while the big save eluded Reimer as Boston scored twice in 31 ticks with Rask on the bench. Boston out-shot Toronto 17-6 in the period, while Patrice Bergeron, who'd tied it, jumped on a Jake Gardiner giveaway in overtime, assisted by a young Brad Marchand. That's definitely in the top five lows of your life,' Reimer said. April 25, 2018 at Boston FINAL SCORE: 7-4, Bruins WHAT HAPPENED: Patrick Marleau scored twice as Toronto took a one-goal lead into the third while Andersen and Rask duelled. But the B's struck early and eventually put in four on 11 shots, including Marchand's empty-netter. It was the first time that season Toronto had allowed four markers in a final period, but the post-game spotlight also fell on defenceman Gardiner's minus 5.
Winnipeg Free Press
13-05-2025
- Winnipeg Free Press
‘Impaired driving kills'
The mother of a woman killed by a drunk driver is imploring Manitobans to call 911 when they spot people they suspect are impaired behind the wheel, as the unofficial start of summer approaches. 'Impaired driving kills. It devastates families, friends, it devastates communities,' said Karen Reimer, whose 24-year-old daughter Jordyn Reimer was killed by a drunk driver in 2022. 'We are asking people, please do not minimize that a vehicle is a serious weapon in the hands of an impaired driver… if you suspect a driver is impaired, call 911 and report it, just like you would if you were witnessing any other kind of crime.' MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Jordan Reimer's (from left) sister, Andrea, mother, Karen, and father, Doug, along with her many friends and supporters of MADD gather at Jordyn's Memorial Bench on the Transcona Trail. She made the comments at a Tuesday event organized by the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Winnipeg chapter, ahead of the May long weekend. The event was attended by the Winnipeg Police Service and RCMP, as well as Transcona Coun. Russ Wyatt, was part of MADD's yearly campaign calling for motorists to act. 'It's one of the most important tools we have in the fight against impaired driving because it puts power directly in the hands of the public,' said MADD local president Trevor Enns of the campaign, which began in the early 1990s. 'It reminds all of us that when we see something, we can and we should say something… that call could prevent a crash — it could even save a life.' The event was held at a memorial bench for Reimer on the Transcona Trail, near her father's home on Hoka Street. Family and friends of the family stood behind the bench, holding poster boards with photographs of Reimer, as officials spoke to the media. Reimer was killed by drunk driver Tyler Scott Goodman early on May 1, 2022 in a high-speed wreck on a quiet Transcona street, blocks from her home. She was acting as a designated driver for loved ones that night. 'Jordyn's death was incredibly senseless and entirely preventable,' said Reimer. 'Impaired driving is a choice, not an accident.' Goodman, in his early 30s, later pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death and failing to remain at the scene. He was given seven years in prison in November 2023. Police said there tends to be more impaired driving during the warmer months, particularly on long weekends. GOFUNDME Jordyn Reimer, 24, was killed by a drunk driver in 2022. RCMP traffic services Sgt. Darcy Pahl said Mounties responded to 65 fatal crashes in Manitoba last year, which resulted in 75 deaths. He said 28 per cent of those crashes were drug or alcohol related. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. WPS Const. Alexander Peterson said anyone who spots a possible impaired driver should not hesitate. 'It's urgent for us to know — we look at it as an emergency,' he said. 'We want to stop it in progress.' Winnipeg police statistics recently showed a nearly 31 per cent increase in impaired driving offences laid in 2024 over 2023, which police attributed to increased enforcement. Nearly 50 per cent of Winnipeg drivers tested had cannabis in their system. Erik PinderaReporter Erik Pindera is a reporter for the Free Press, mostly focusing on crime and justice. The born-and-bred Winnipegger attended Red River College Polytechnic, wrote for the community newspaper in Kenora, Ont. and reported on television and radio in Winnipeg before joining the Free Press in 2020. Read more about Erik. Every piece of reporting Erik produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
