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We are in crisis, says Lyons

photo - Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism
Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism (photo from international.gc.ca)

The federal government’s designated point person on antisemitism raised alarm bells for Canadians following attacks on Jews last month in Amsterdam. 

Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism, spoke to the Vancouver Jewish community Nov. 12, in a special online conversation with Ezra Shanken, chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver….

Touring with Cirque’s ECHO

photo - Sarah Sananes is a guest experience supervisor with Cirque du Soleil’s ECHO, which is in Vancouver until Jan. 5
Sarah Sananes is a guest experience supervisor with Cirque du Soleil’s ECHO, which is in Vancouver until Jan. 5. (photo from Cirque du Soleil)

Beautiful. Cirque du Soleil’s ECHO, at Concord Pacific Place until Jan. 5, is just beautiful – the costumes, the movements, the music, the projected images. As with most Cirque productions, there is a minimal storyline. This one follows heroine Future and her dog Ewai as they try to restore balance to the world, between humans, animals and the environment. It is an optimistic, fantastical show, an uplifting break from a reality that sometimes seems hopeless.

The performance the audience sees under the Big Top is, of course, as much the result of many behind-the-scenes and front-of-house workers as it is the performers’ hours of practise and great skill….

Small glimmer of hope

The tyrannical regime in Syria has collapsed, and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has fled to Russia. We can hope this represents the end of the catastrophic Syrian civil war that has cost perhaps 600,000 lives, maybe more, and displaced half the country’s population.

The only thing that seems certain, however, is that the Assad regime is over. What comes next is largely unknown….

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Children in the Shoah

photo - Left to right: Abby Wener Herlin, Lise Kirchner, Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk, Prof. Richard Menkis and Al Szajman at the community commemoration of Kristallnacht Nov. 7
Left to right: Abby Wener Herlin, Lise Kirchner, Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk, Prof. Richard Menkis and Al Szajman at the community commemoration of Kristallnacht Nov. 7. (photo by Rhonda Dent)

Blue Rodeo is thriving at 40

photo - A 1989 PR photo for Blue Rodeo’s Diamond Mine album. Left to right are Bazil Donovan, Bob Wiseman, Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor and Mark French. The documentary Blue Rodeo: Lost Together has its world premiere at the Whistler Film Festival
A 1989 PR photo for Blue Rodeo’s Diamond Mine album. Left to right are Bazil Donovan, Bob Wiseman, Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor and Mark French. The documentary Blue Rodeo: Lost Together has its world premiere at the Whistler Film Festival. (photo by Andrew MacNaughtan (on bluerodeo.com)

Hope for best outcomes

Every election leaves a portion of the electorate thrilled and another group disappointed. The more polarized the electorate, the more intense these emotions. Two elections recently were certainly examples of this – and they were elections that could hardly have been closer….

 

 

 

 

 

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