{"id":918573,"date":"2026-10-03T02:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918573\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:58:13","slug":"maple-leafs-assist-community-in-thanksgiving-visit-to-covenant-house-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918573\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs assist community in Thanksgiving visit to Covenant House Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covenant House Toronto has worked since 1982 to provide a variety of services, including shelter, meals, health services and employment training to youths who are homeless, trafficked or at risk. Their partnership with the Maple Leafs is approaching a decade, and in the past it has featured visits from players like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/john-tavares-8475166\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Tavares<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/anthony-stolarz-8476932\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Stolarz<\/a>, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nicholas-robertson-8481582\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Robertson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/william-nylander-8477939\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Nylander<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Maple Leafs have been outstanding in making their annual visit to us,\u201d Covenant House CEO Mark Aston said. \u201cThey inspire the kids here and show them there is hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He used Cowan, still just 21 years old, as an example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEaston isn\u2019t much older than some of the kids in here, if at all,\u201d Ashton said of the second-year forward. \u201cKeep in mind that some of these kids don\u2019t feel they are part of anything. They feel they are irrelevant. When a public figure like Easton, and his teammates too, spend time with them, talk to them, laugh with them, it helps their self-importance, their self-confidence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the fact Easton is still a kid himself, they can relate to that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Covenant House Toronto has worked since 1982 to provide a variety of services, including shelter, meals, health services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-918573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}