Video and photograph by Lon Appleby Photograph by Heather Ramsay and Lon Appleby On March 21, we were back at Skills for Change in the St. Clair West neighbourhood. We hit a record high number of visitors this time! The first visitor arrived with a broken blender an hour before we opened. Another […]

The Repair Café Hits Another Record!


Video by Lon Appleby Our monthly Repair Café on February 21 was a Saturday that started with heavy snow. But the broken streetcars and slow traffic didn’t hamper the enthusiasm of our volunteers and visitors. Within half an hour, the HackLab was filled with people. This short video above was taken when we were half way […]

Repair Café at HackLab – Awesome Collaboration!


Photograph by Lon Appleby It seems that with every Repair Café, we reach another milestone. On January 17, the first Repair Café this year, we occupied the largest number of rooms at Skills for Change. Also, we had the highest number of volunteers showing up and helping out for the […]

Highest Number of Volunteers