An up-date on the Hispanic / Latin American Leaders Roundtable
Note from the Editor:
Below you will read an email send to us by Julie Dzerowicz, Member of Parliament for Davenport. For considering it of the interest of our readers, we share it here.
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Leaving the nest
As a young Latin American, who was raised in Canada, I feel privileged to have been exposed to the diverse values, opinions and way of living
Lost in translation?
Learning a second language is a very difficult task. The pronunciation and the subtleties of the English language may seem daunting to a native Spanish-speaker
OPINION: Unconscionable abuse of Quebec crime by Trump administration
PASTOR VALLE-GARAY* / Guest columnist
It was a tragedy that hurt the soul and fiber of every Canadian. Alexander Bissonnette, a 27 year-old white French-Canadian walked into a mosque an coldly assassinated 6 Muslims and...
Friends until the end
I never saw myself as a dog whisperer or even a potential pet owner. I admired them from afar and gazed at them as they walked past me on the street, but did not want the responsibility of caring for another being
4 hours/day; 20 hours/week; 80 hours/month; 960 hours/ year = COMMUTING TIME
Like thousands of people do every day, I spend part of mine travelling to and from my job using a combination of modes of transportation: car, bus, train, street-car, metro, my own feet. Viva Sustainable Mobility, as it make things easier. No way to drive to Toronto.
Getting used to a long and harsh winter is a piece of cake
It is not only that one has to get used to the long and harsh Canadian winter...
Changes in life: from Peru to Canada and then to… India!
Change is good. Right? At least that’s what everyone has to say when someone is going through a heck of a change
The Immortal Cantinflas
MARTIN BOYD*
Throughout the Spanish-speaking world and in Mexico in particular, Cantinflas is a cultural icon. With Cantinflas, the Mexican comedian Mario Moreno created a character who featured in more than 50 films and became an...
The figs of George The Macedonian
If you drive from Bathurst to Jane using the quiet streets around Lawrence, you may encounter a fragment of Paradise Lost. It was last sunday morning, under a blue sky that i saw at a corner a hand-made sign announcing "For sale. Fresh Figs". My sister was driving. We saw the sign, passed the corner, looked at each other and then made a u-turn on towards the figs. Fresh figs in the middle of big, asphalt and cement, noisy, urban Toronto? really?
