Spring forward!
March is quickly coming to a close, bringing longer days, new opportunities, program expansions and more. 🌸
Read on to stay in the loop!
BurlingtonToday celebrates inaugural Community Builders Awards 🏆
Our celebration of changemakers has grown to include the Burlington community.
On March 27, we hosted the first annual Community Builders Awards honouring the extraordinary people making significant contributions to enhancing the Burlington community.
The awards encompass five categories (education, health care, legacy, sports & recreation and unsung hero), each acknowledging different facets of community involvement and achievement.
By highlighting these community builders, the BurlingtonToday Community Builders Awards aim to inspire others and foster a spirit of civic engagement and pride throughout Burlington.
Congratulations to our winners! You can read more about each of them in our feature articles on BurlingtonToday.
Introducing Village Gold 🌟
Exciting news! As a community impact organization, we're dedicated to building a stronger, more connected local ecosystems. With this guiding principle in mind, we are leveraging our trusted local journalism, our vibrant SPACES social platform and impactful community initiatives to drive positive change.
At the heart of this transformation is Village Gold, our enhanced community-based marketing program.
Village Gold empowers local businesses with a comprehensive suite of marketing tools while directly investing in our community's future. Subscribers enjoy unlimited classifieds posting, strategic banner and retargeted text ads and featured articles across our news sites, local newsletters and SPACES.
Plus, Village Gold subscribers receive a host of free services, like free ad design and content creation. Every subscription dollar fuels vital local journalism, supports community events and helps us build back social capital.
From the desk of our editor-in-chief ✍️
It’s time to hit the polls — again.
Fresh off covering a snap election campaign in Ontario, our journalists have turned their attention to the federal race. Our team of political experts at ParliamentToday and The Trillium are quarterbacking Village Media’s coverage, while our community editors and reporters — as usual — are on top of all the local angles leading up to Election Day on April 28.
Don’t forget to cast your ballot! Every vote counts.
Speaking of voting, this story from BarrieToday’s Kevin Lamb is an early candidate for craziest story of the year. “Wrong house, man!”
What's new in SPACES? 📱
We continue to roll out our new locally-focused, Canadian-built social media platform, SPACES, across our footprint.
Come April 1, SPACES will be in 10 of our markets: Burlington, Oakville, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, North Bay, Guelph, Cambridge, Orillia, Collingwood and Barrie.
We've also released our new SPACES app for iOS with the Android version soon to follow and updated notifications to make it even easier to stay up to date with the fun, engaging and informative content our communities are posting to SPACES each day.
✨ Spotlight on sponsorships ✨
Our March sponsorships included events and initiatives in 14 of our communities, including:
AuroraToday
Michael House
BarrieToday
Barrie Chamber Women in Business Awards, Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
BayToday
Holistic Healing Fair
BradfordToday
Michael House
CollingwoodToday
Holistic Healing Fair, Probus Collingwood, My Friend's House
MidlandToday
Guys Who Care North Simcoe
NewmarketToday
Michael House, Holistic Healing Fair
Niagara-on-the-Lake Local
Art at the Pumphouse
OrilliaMatters
Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
PelhamToday
Art at the Pumphouse, Rotary Club of Fonthill
SooToday
Children's Books at the Hospital
Sudbury.com
Holistic Healing Fair, Madwewetoon Festival, Int. Women's Day Event Brazilian BJJ
ThoroldToday
Art at the Pumphouse
TorontoToday
Holistic Healing Fair
Pawesome Villager of the month 🐾
Meet Fundy!
Fundy is a six-year-old former Bahamian street dog who loves long walks on the beach, naps and treats. She'll be your BFF in exchange for a beef liver bite. 😋
Proud pet parent: Meghan Groff
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