Category: Focus

Who’s faster than a speeding bullet and can leap over tall buildings in a single bound?

By Jane Gates

It’s the International Year of Older Persons, and we are being encouraged to try to break down intergenerational barriers between young and old people.

Oops — that’s older people.

But what does it mean to be an older person these days? It certainly doesn’t have the same meaning it did at the beginning of the century — for that matter, even in the middle. And it most certainly will not have the same meaning in another 50 years. read more

By Ariel Teplitsky

Colin Richardson missed the chance to attend university in his youth.

In his early teens in London, England, his life was interrupted by the Second World War. He later enlisted in the military. When the war ended in 1945, he only had time to attend night classes, and never got a degree. read more

By Danielle Gauthier

When Kathelyn Black turned 80 this year, one of her friends sent her this tongue-in-cheek message: “People are so amazed you made it this far, they don’t expect too much of you!”

But Black says she’s never been one to sit back and watch her life go by, and she’s not about to start now. read more