Toronto actor Jake Epstein hosted Canada’s online Yom Hashoah commemoration on April 20. (PR photo) Days after many Canadian families celebrated Passover remotely using online platforms for virtual seders, Yom Hashoah was commemorated with a virtual ceremony that linked survivors…
Members of Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom enjoy a Ramadan Iftar dinner together at a local mosque. Naz Qureshi is at top right and Rabbi Gila Caine is seated in the front row, second from the right. This photo was taken…
Chatting surf, water refill stations and plastic pollution at Ocean Heroes Bootcamp, left to right: Enzo Ackermann (Ocean Hero), Rob Machado (professional surfer/environmentalist) and Sondra Weiss (art educator). (photo from Sondra Weiss, Founder, Lost Art of Love Letters) Organized and…
These “quarantini” cookies were baked by Lynne Altow and her aunt, Alexandra Altow. When Queen’s University closed earlier this month, Lynne stayed at her uncle David and aunt Alexandra’s house in Toronto on her way home to Vancouver, where her…
Ara Morris, principal of Brock Corydon School, left, and Naomi Finkelstein, co-founder of Parents Family Friends of Transgender Individuals. (photo from Morris and Finkelstein) The Winnipeg School Division recently assembled a panel to discuss ways to best support trans and…
Monument Valley in Utah. (photo from CBC Radio) Having always lived in and around rainforest, CBC Vancouver’s Matthew Lazin-Ryder said the desert is a place he still struggles to fully understand. “The desert has always seemed to be an imaginary…
Dr. Allan Becker has devoted much of his life’s work to the study of asthma and how it affects children who have it. (photo from Allan Becker) As Jewish community member Dr. Allan Becker was starting his career as a…
A moment of levity during the taking of Justine and Stewart Silver’s wedding photos. (photo from Justin Silver) The late Stewart Silver was born and raised in Montreal. He had worked as a standup comedian, and moved to Toronto in…
Aileen Friesen has researched how Mennonites living the area of current-day Ukraine reacted to the Nazis. (photo from Aileen Friesen) An event titled Jews, Mennonites and the Holocaust took place in Winnipeg at the Rady Jewish Community Centre a few…
Jodi Kovitz, founder and chief executive officer of #movethedial. (photo by photagonist.ca) What began as Jodi Kovitz’s personal desire to increase the technology industry’s minimal efforts to attract women leaders is now a broad movement – #movethedial. Kovitz was born…
