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Blog: The view from Bali
- December
- 12
May Jeong is one of the 29 members of the Canadian Youth Delegation to the Bali conference on climate change. Toby Heaps is at the conference as editor of Corporate Knights, a media and advocacy company. This blog from Bali will appear daily during the conference.
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Lonely child found solace in Star gift box
- December
- 12
As a child growing up in a house where Christmas gifts were less numerous than the chimpanzees hanging from the light fixtures, Monica says it was consoling that the Santa Claus Fund was there every year.Now 52, Monica remembers what it meant to [...]
No commentsBox LiveBit of cheer for a teenage mother
- December
- 12
A month ago, Sandy fled an abusive relationship with her 4-year-old autistic daughter and her 2-month old baby girl.Afraid for her life and the lives of her children, she left with no other belongings but the clothes on their backs.With no family to [...]
No commentsBox LiveGifts made family’s tough year easier
- December
- 12
This is a story about how Robert Mugabe nearly stole Christmas from one Toronto family.Five years ago, Leigh and her husband were living on their tobacco farm in Zimbabwe with their two children when the Zimbabwean president repossessed their land.Homeless and impoverished, the [...]
No commentsBox LiveSanta Claus Fund | Life is hard, but gift box makes kids a bit merrier
- December
- 12
Feeding four and paying rent on less than $1,000 per month would be difficult enough, but doing so while hiding from an abusive ex-boyfriend is what one woman calls %26#34;life.%26#34;Robyn, a 29-year-old mother of three boys, ages 1, 9 and 11, is [...]
No commentsBox LiveBusiness 20% shop in U.S.: Poll
- December
- 12
OTTAWA 鈥?The usual stream of Canadians crossing the U.S. border in search of bargains with their high-flying Canadian dollar is turning into a flood, a poll suggests. The Canadian Press-Harris/Decima survey found that 17 per cent of Canadians polled had travelled to the U.S. to shop in the last two months alone, dropping an [...]
No commentsBox LiveStu, Trixie make for hoppy home
- December
- 12
It was a gift the day Bunny Stu hopped into Fatima Husain’s life. %26#34;I had someone very close to me pass away in the summer before I got Stuart. A relative (also a doctor) suggested that actually getting the pet I’d been talking [...]
No commentsBox LiveGift saved day for injured mom
- December
- 12
Last December, Shannon lay bedridden, the victim of a drunk driver. To make matters worse, she was several months pregnant at the time of the car accident.Impoverished, in pain and unable to leave her low-income housing unit while she recovered from the injuries [...]
No commentsBox LiveFood banks go green for winter
- December
- 12
Thousands of low-income families will spend less on heating bills and reduce their ecological footprint this winter thanks to a %26quot;green%26quot; energy program offered through Ontario food banks. %26quot;Tonight thousands of parents across the province are going to come home and look at their heating bill or fridge and have to make a terrible choice,%26quot; [...]
No commentsBox LiveNo room for toys in family’s tight budget
- December
- 12
Lily zipped up her winter coat and pushed the baby carriage onto the driveway in front of her highrise apartment building in downtown Toronto.%26#34;She’s sleeping,%26#34; she said of her 16-month-old daughter, whose little shoes were sticking out from underneath blankets draped over the [...]
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