Deaf man realizes childhood dream as professional theatre performer
While growing up deaf, Chris Dodd was always trying to be heard. “I was a little bit of a clown,” Chris tells us through a sign language interpreter. “I liked to get attention.”
WITH ADAM SAWATSKY
While growing up deaf, Chris Dodd was always trying to be heard. “I was a little bit of a clown,” Chris tells us through a sign language interpreter. “I liked to get attention.”
Keith Alessi will never forget being a boy and discovering the instrument that would eventually save his life.
To appreciate why Karin Hedetniemi was so surprised by what she found buried in her back garden – how meaningful it was to discover an old metal dog tag from 1950 – we need to go back to when she met Gary Salmon in 2018.
When Catherine Dobrowolski began doing daily walks by the water, she never expected to make an eight-legged friend.
Before David Beck discovered the positive potential of filling a balloon full of water, he was striving to be a full-time travel photographer.
It all began with the unexpected arrival of a big box at the beginning of the school year, which was filled with red headbands and an an invitation to become a "Kindness Ninja."
When Ping-Yi Wu started taking a selfie while floating in the ocean near East Sooke, B.C., the tourist never imagined she would eventually capture an orca with her camera.
When Ross Turner first ventured towards the Tofino surf in his kayak, his instructor was feeling cautious. He was 77 years old then, relatively new to kayaking, and said he wanted to learn how to "play in rough waters."
Adam finds out why an Esquimalt couple is crediting their enduring love story with laughter.
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The family of a Victoria, B.C., woman who was seriously injured in an accident in Thailand is pleading for help as medical bills pile up.
A Vancouver woman whose company duped investors by promising big returns on real-estate deals that would house the homeless has been ordered to pay nearly $626,000 after the British Columbia Securities Commission deemed the operation a Ponzi scheme.
The HMCS Max Bernays made its way into its new home at CFB Esquimalt on Monday after a long journey from Halifax.
Students at a Que. school are accusing their teacher of unlawfully selling their art online. Genevieve Beauchemin has the details.