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Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter took its fight to end violence against women global last month by lending two of its staff members to the emerging battle in a West African country that just recently made domestic violence illegal. Through a partnership with Crossroads International, the Etobicoke-based shelter sent outreach counsellor Monica Amenya and facility co-ordinator Deborah James-Sargent to Togo – a country where 74 per
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‘Repression’ art installation earns student high honour TAMARA SHEPHARD tshephard@insidetoronto.com Etobicoke School of the Arts’ visual artist Max Perone’s excitement at being named a 2016 Saatchi Gallery finalist out of 22,000 entrants quickly turned to pondering a looming practical consideration. The Swansea award-win-
ning visual artist’s sculpture, “Repression,” is a collection of 900 plaster faces, some emotionally neutral, others screaming, displayed in three steel cages. It weighs one-and-a-half tonnes. “It was really kind of awesome,” Perone, 17, said of learn>>>esa, page 14
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