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Slaight Foundation Gifts $15M To Support 12 Female Orgs

The Slaight Family Foundation, one of Toronto’s most wide-reaching family foundations, has announced its latest charitable give of $15 million to 12 organizations across Canada, focused on improvin

Slaight Foundation Gifts $15M To Support 12 Female Orgs

By Karen Bliss

The Slaight Family Foundation, one of Toronto’s most wide-reaching family foundations, has announced its latest charitable give of $15 million to 12 organizations across Canada, focused on improving the lives of women and girls, with a focus on Indigenous, Black, racialized, refugee and immigrant communities.


A little under a year ago, they divvied up $30 million to 19 Canadian organizations offering mental health services. This latest gift brings the foundation’s total, to date, to $170 million, all programs and initiatives thoroughly considered, expanded or created.

The new recipients of the family’s generosity and focus are Canadian Women’s Foundation, Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada, Covenant House, Girls E-Mentorship (GEM), New Circles, Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), Ontario Native Women’s Association, University Health Network (UHN), Women’s College Hospital Foundation, Women’s Shelters Canada, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands CHC (WHIWH), and YWCA.

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“The pandemic has added to the many challenges faced by women and girls across Canada, and particularly in Indigenous, racialized and refugee communities,” said the Slaight Family Foundation’s president and CEO Gary Slaight in a statement. “This initiative is about helping people escape difficult circumstances, providing support for mental and physical health, and overcoming barriers so that women and girls across Canada can live their lives unburdened by unfair, unhealthy or unsafe circumstances.” – Continue reading on the Samaritanmag website.

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Luna Li and Gab Bouchard Win 2023 SOCAN Songwriting Prize


Their songs "Silver Into Rain" and "Ton shift est pas fini" have won public votes to choose them as the best by emerging Canadian songwriters this year.

The wait is over. Three weeks after unveiling the finalists' list established by Canadian music industry professionals, the winners of the 2023 SOCAN Songwriting Prize have just been announced. The Canadian rights management organization aims to showcase the next generation of songwriters and showcase the people who make the music.

The award goes to the singer-songwriters Gab Bouchard and Mathieu Quenneville for "Ton shift est pas fini" by Gab Bouchard, as well as "Silver Into Rain" by Luna Li (featuring beabadoobee), both of which received the most public votes. They each beat out seven other nominees on two separate lists, one for music in French and one for music in English. The Francophone and Anglophone winners each receive a prize of $10,000.

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