Sydney Morton

4 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Sydney Morton

Singing from the mountain tops, Indigenous artists Dani Lion and Jodie B are calling the missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two Spirit people home. “In the lyric I sing,’I am the river, I am the mountains, I am the rock beneath your soles’,” said Jodie ‘Jodie B’ Bruce, producer and artist. ‘We are just energy. Energy is not destroyed, it is transformed, and so it kind of goes to a message for our lost sisters.

1 month ago | globalnews.ca | Sydney Morton

Industry professionals are hopeful the threat of tariffs from the United States won’t dim the lights on the Okanagan film industry. “I’m sure our crew are freaking out, our actors are freaking out, but, you know, I suggest they don’t, because it would be really, really difficult to put a tariff on a service industry,” said Jon Summerland, Okanagan Film Commissioner. This week, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a 100 per cent tariff on all films made outside of the United States.

1 month ago | globalnews.ca | Sydney Morton

Beating drums and raised voices echoed through downtown Kelowna for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls on Monday. Hundreds of people dressed in red marched from the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society on Leon Avenue to the Kelowna Law Courts, a display that doubles as a call to action to bring the missing back home. “All levels of government have not done enough to address this.

1 month ago | globalnews.ca | Sydney Morton

It takes a lot of hands to keep the herd at Happy Hooves fed. The group of misfits that call the sanctuary home are here because they have either been abandoned or mistreated. The property in Kelowna, B.C., is where they can find healing. “Rescue is really, really important work, and it’s really hard work, but I think we also need to be proactive and teaching people what it means to adopt these animals and what the commitment looks like,” said Tristyn Hay, Happy Hooves Sanctuary co-founder.

1 month ago | globalnews.ca | Sydney Morton

What many consider the greatest Hollywood musical ever made is now transcending film and being brought to the stage at the Kelowna Actors’ Studio. “Singin’ in the Rain is one of the biggest movie musicals of all time,” said Ethan Landygo,  artistic associate at Kelowna Actors’ Studio. The cast has been training for weeks and has had hundreds of hours of rehearsal time to bring the spectacle to life.