Archive 1997-2016
By Brett Popplewell
To a passer-by, Glashan Intermediate must seem like a typical inner-city school. A three-storey red brick building, it looks out over Bank Street, the Queensway and a rundown garage repair shop. With its paved playground and chain-link fence, the school is as inviting as the neighbouring bus station.
By Katy Peplinskie
Haitian immigrant Jean Saint-Vil is struggling to educate Canadians about the plight Haitians faced since a coup overthrew its constitutional government in 2004.
He says the typical Canadian has no idea why the American-led coup was even staged.
By Tia Goldenberg
Daniel Van Vliet’s landlord laughed when he asked for permission to plant a garden in his front yard.
He said nothing would grow there, but Van Vliet planted seeds anyway.
This spring — like the past six — sunflowers, perennial and echinacea flowers will bloom in his garden in front of his golden triangle neighborhood home.
By Tia Goldenberg
Live as fully and as passionately as you can. Don’t be a cynic. And always trust your sixth sense.
These are the words Ian Fraser lives by.
Fraser isn’t a motivational speaker, a therapist or a soothsayer — not officially, at least.