Her name was Aquitania. Born in Scotland and launched on April 21, 1913, the ocean liner was a beauty, boasting accommodations unlike any other found in the water at the time: walls decorated with portraits of Royalty and prints of English seaports, a smoking room...
At the heart of any great departure from the beaten path is an awareness that the prevailing modes of thought fail to account for your understanding of the world. For Ilana Ben-Ari, the Toronto-based social entrepreneur and founder of Twenty One Toys, the choice to...
One of my more cherished memories as a student was taking an exclusive seminar course on international human rights with Canadian human rights activist, John Peters Humphrey. An author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the man was one of my heroes. I...
This op-ed was originally published in The Hill Times, April 13, 2015 The recent media coverage of the proposed layoffs of dozens of developmentally disabled people in Ottawa due to the end of a 30-year contract for paper disposal with the federal government has...
Although Americans are often critical, citizens of this country have a lot to be thankful for. There are some good things happening here, for sure. One amazing program not known by many is the Social innovation Fund (SIF) housed in the Corporation for National and...
Last week, as the sun shone on one of the warmest days Toronto has seen in a while, my neighbour hanged himself in the locker room of our apartment building. I didn’t know him. I hardly said two words to him, a reality I now regret. Still, the act left me...
