News and Press

  Suhana Meharchand is host of CBC News Now, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET, each weekday morning on CBC News Network. A two-time Gemini Award nominee, she has hosted numerous CBC News programs, including Saturday Report and weekend programs on CBC Newsworld. She hosted the CBC regional news program in Toronto for five years. Meharchand also worked for CHCH-TV in ...


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TORONTO, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011:   Fife House, Canada’s largest provider of housing for men, women and families living with HIV/AIDS, is pleased to announce that GRAMMY and JUNO Award-winning Canadian recording artist Alannah Myles will perform a benefit concert at the organization’s annual Spotlight fundraising event at the CBC Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front Street West, on ...


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Stability and hope. Two qualities of life that can prove elusive for the estimated 18,000 men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS in the Greater Toronto Area — about 25 per cent of all the cases in Canada. So it’s not surprising that these are the twin goals defining the success of Toronto’s Fife House over the past two decades, helping it to grow from a small ...


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By Sheryl Ubelacker, Health Reporter, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press –  Fri, 3 Jun, 2011 Tucked away in the heart of downtown Toronto, a memorial garden for those who have died of AIDS is a visual reminder of the epidemic that has sickened and killed tens of millions worldwide since the disease first struck three decades ago. Twelve brick pillars curve along ...


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  Jennifer Yang/Toronto Star Four years after being diagnosed with HIV, John Terry found himself without a home. The diagnosis threw his life into a tailspin. Terry suddenly had no job, no apartment and was couch-surfing with friends and family in the Toronto area. For the former Parliament Hill policy analyst, it was the darkest period of his life — but at least he ...


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Allan has been living with HIV for 25 years. Three years ago, when he was at risk of being homeless, Fife House gave him a safe place to get back on his feet. “I had lost everything and I was seriously ill, I didn’t have any support — no family or anything,” he said. “I found Fife House thankfully through their homeless outreach program.” The biggest ...


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  September 14, 2010 (Toronto) – Spotlight has received an outpouring of support from various Canadian rising-star musicians eager to lend their talent to benefit Fife House, which provides 80% of the secure, affordable housing in Toronto for people with HIV/AIDS. Momentum for the 2010 edition of the annual event is building; the Spotlight team is excited to welcome to ...


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September 2, 2010 (Toronto) – Tickets for Spotlight 2010 are now available. This community driven initiative is in support of Fife House, an organization dedicated to providing secure, affordable housing and access to social services to people living with HIV/AIDS.   Tickets to the September 30 event are $75 and include a cocktail reception, silent auction and musical ...


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August 20, 2010 (Toronto) – Spotlight, an annual fundraising event that supports the Fife House team’s efforts to provide affordable housing and support services to those living with HIV/AIDS in Toronto, will be held on September 30, 2010 and BMO Financial Group is the title sponsor.  The event, under the theme ‘Spotlight Unplugged. Up Close and Personal,’ will ...


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We tend to think of tribute albums as being the work of fans, of musicians whose own identities wouldn’t have been fully formed without the influence of a classic artist. But while that’s true to some degree of Kellylee Evans’s new album, Nina , the young jazz singer’s relationship to the music and legend of Nina Simone is complicated, to say the least. ...


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The Globe and Mail did a profile of Yorkville's Sassafraz Restaurant and its preparations for Fife House's A Taste For Life Event!  Sure, it’s prime celebrity stalking ground, but on Wednesday night Yorkville’s Sassafraz restaurant will plate up its new menu for A Taste For Life, an event to benefit Fife House, Canada’s biggest provider of housing for people with ...


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Sharon Lem of the Toronto Sun covered Fife House's Taste For Life Event! There’s never been a better excuse to go out for a bite to eat. Fife House — which provides housing, programs and support services to people living with HIV and AIDS — will hold its second annual Taste for Life fundraiser on Wednesday night.  The ambitious fundraiser, incorporates 77 GTA ...


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