(November 8, 2020) When the outcome of the the US election was called by numerous news networks on Saturday, November 7, four days after Election Day on November 3, the world exhaled. With the vast majority of ballots cast by mail, and Republican legislators in battleground states like Pennsylvania preventing the counting of mail-in ballots until the polls closed on … [Read more...] about US Election: The world weighs in
Empathy is back
(November 7, 2020) In 2018, Chris Hixon, the athletic director of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was shot dead as he tried to save his students. A video of Vice President Joe Biden comforting Corey Hixon, the son of Chris Hixon, during a memorial service in Parkland, Florida, went viral two years after it was taken. As the then former vice president turns to leave the … [Read more...] about Empathy is back
Editorial cartoonists capture the moment
(November 6, 2020) Since election day in the United States on Tuesday, November 3, the world has watched as keenly as a crowd in Rome's St. Peter's Square waiting for the white smoke that signals the election of a new pope. But all we've seen coming from the U.S. election chimney is the black smoke indicating a decision has not been reached. At issue are the vote counts of … [Read more...] about Editorial cartoonists capture the moment
Mazarine Treyz: What a woman can do
(November 5, 2020) Mazarine Treyz has an answer to the question many white people have been asking of Black, Indigenous and people of colour in the wake of the racial and economic injustice laid bare by the pandemic and police violence. What can I do? As the sole proprietor of a business offering online education to prospective leaders in the nonprofit sector, Treyz … [Read more...] about Mazarine Treyz: What a woman can do
Remembering the UNICEF coin box
(October 30, 2020) It’s been 14 years (!) since UNICEF Canada sent out the UNICEF coin box to schools across the country so trick or treaters could fill them with pennies, nickels and dimes as they filled their buckets with candy. In 2006, UNICEF Canada ended the program, saying the labour involved in rolling up all those pennies was becoming a disincentive for the … [Read more...] about Remembering the UNICEF coin box