Imagine that you are the child bravely saying, “Good-bye, Mommy. Good-bye, Daddy,” not knowing when you would see them again. Imagine that you are the parent saying goodbye to the child, not knowing if you would see them again. That was the plight of more than 10,000 …
On July 19, 2014, Dan Markel, from Toronto, a brilliant Harvard-educated law professor, and father of two young boys, was murdered in his driveway in Tallahassee, Florida. In 2016, the first arrests were made in this murder-for-hire case. Two of the assailants were convic…
As an applied design teacher and philatelist, I’ve always appreciated the artwork on our stamps. When Canada Post announced that it was joining a number of countries in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Raoul Wallenberg’s birth with a commemorative stamp, I naturall…
In 2002, long before the general public recognized the growing affordable housing crisis that is apparent today, a few far-sighted individuals from Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities in Ottawa came together to create Multifaith Housing Initiative (MHI).
