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 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?
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...
