Troy Media – By Janet Keeping
Recent controversies over whether or not to ban the burka and what to do about honour killings in Canada raise questions about how we should deal with diversity. Continue Reading
Posted on 24 August 2010.
Troy Media – By Janet Keeping
Recent controversies over whether or not to ban the burka and what to do about honour killings in Canada raise questions about how we should deal with diversity. Continue Reading
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Posted on 17 August 2010.
Troy Media – By Bob Weinstein
War is a powerful metaphor for work. So says Kay Hammer, author of Workplace Warrior, Insights and advice for winning on the corporate battlefield. The real enemies aren’t bad bosses and inefficient management, it’s also yourself. The toughest battles we fight are often with ourselves. Continue Reading
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Posted on 14 August 2010.
Brothers Jon Ross and Sean Washburn
By Tara Ursulescu, reporter
When Jon Ross, 37, of Tavistock, Ontario, learned he had a brother who was adopted at birth and was only a few years older, his mind was made up. He set out to find his brother in 2003 by checking the Ontario registry. Continue Reading
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Posted on 10 August 2010.
Olan, 9, Vicente, 6, and Zario Reyes, 2, were enjoying the fair as much as Mom.
By Tracy Blaine, Assistant City Editor
Mommylicious, A Trade Fair with Flair, introduced something new to the trade fair scene on Sunday. While this was the first Mommylicious fair, it offered 60 booths showcasing products and services for Moms and Families. Continue Reading
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Posted on 09 August 2010.
By Sarah Deveau
Who knew kids could grow out of all of their clothing, and lose all of their school supplies in the few weeks since school let out in June? “Of course they didn’t,” says Sarah Deveau. “But many parents automatically shop as though they had.”
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Posted on 28 July 2010.
Photo courtesy of www.theslapdash.com
By Tara Ursulescu, reporter
Jaime Bayntun, 32, and Seth Lennea, 34, natives of Vancouver, BC, left everything they had to sail half way around the world without any prior sailing experience in 2007. When they arrived home in 2009, they were two very different people. Continue Reading
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Posted on 26 July 2010.
Troy Media – By Heather Summerhayes Cariou
Canadian politeness is so notorious, it’s practically our international greeting, our very own version of “shalom.”
Nine times out of 10, when I’ve heard “I’m sorry” uttered in a foreign country, (and here where I live in the US), and I say, “You must be Canadian,” I’ve gotten, “How did you know?” Continue Reading
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Posted on 21 July 2010.
Troy Media – By Mark Milke
Andy Russell, the Lethbridge-born trapper, grizzly bear hunter, photographer, trail guide, rancher and writer, loved the mountains of southern Alberta.In a 1973 description of the morning sunrise at the foothills of the Rockies, he characterized the moment as “sudden-bursting life, a marriage of light and life,” and of how “the mountains light up at first sun in deep rose, swiftly changing to gold, and all shot through with deep purple’s shadow.” It was, he wrote, as if “the whole universe pauses for a long, heart-stretching moment, locked in a spell of deep wonder.” Continue Reading
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Posted on 16 July 2010.
By Chris Hammer
Last night I was walking home from the tanning salon listening to Billy Joel’s Glass Houses on my iPod, and I felt really, really good: both mentally and physically. I actually felt like I do when I’m on vacation; if only for a brief moment in an otherwise hectic week. I felt as though ten minutes in a tanning bed and a twenty minute walk had completely reset my system. For that moment I was devoid of any stress, and I was filled with total relaxation and endorphin-induced bliss and calm – sort of like I feel when I’m laying in a cot somewhere on a beach in Mexico. Continue Reading
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Posted on 16 July 2010.
Troy Media – By Aruna Papp
Back in June, in an “honour killing” murder trial now known across Canada, Muhammad Parvez and Waqas Parvez pleaded guilty to the 2007 murder of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez (their daughter/sister respectively). According to media reports, not one of the 12 people present in the house could – or would – bear witness to the crime. Continue Reading
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