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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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