L’Image De Femme Girl’s Night Out

On Nov. 26, 2010, L’Image De Femme, a cross-marketing company for female business owners and hosts of
GNO Events, held its inaugural GNO event at Paradise Banquet Hall. Sponsored by Read more

Kleinburg Reserve “on the boulevard”

With over three decades of development and construction experience, the principles of Quintessa Homes Corporation have built “a new level of luxury” home. On Dec. 12, 2010, the company Read more

Fundraiser for Giuseppe Inserra in his Fight Against MS

A Multiple Sclerosis fundraiser will be held at Da Vinci Banquet Hall on Friday Feb. 25, 2011, for Giuseppe (Pino) Inserra, who has lived with one of the most aggressive forms of MS for over 30 years. With hopes Read more

Too Young to Die: The Tragedy of ALS

Two of Dr. Lorne Zinman’s patients die of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) every week. This rapidly progressive neuromusucular disease that is commonly associated with baseball legend Lou Gehrig, and more recently with the loss of former Canadian Football League star Tony Proudfoot, has no known cause or cure in most cases. “It’s a very complicated disease … it appears that an area of cells in the brain or spinal cord start to commit suicide, which then spreads to the rest of the body resulting in paralysis or death,” says Dr. Zinman, director of Canada’s largest ALS clinic at Sunnybrook Hospital. A fatal disease that affects between 2,500 to 3,000 Canadians, ALS is most common in individuals over the age of 55 and causes an array of symptoms from muscle weakness, cramping and twitching, to speech and respiratory problems. Read more

Support for Our Troops

Since 9-11, I went from your average news consumer to a raging news-oholic. I start my day with a little The Huffington Post and The Gazette. Before my night’s end, no one delivers the news better than The National’s Peter Mansbridge. The only cable network news channel that I stay away from is Fox News. I take a glimpse here and there but my forehead becomes exhausted from the eyebrow-raised eye-rolling. It seems to me that mainstream news media rarely allows a glimpse into the humanitarian endeavours of my country’s, or our neighbours to the south’s troops.

Gripping images of war and its residue put such a negative spin on the selfless acts our service men and women are doing overseas. I realize that the most important part of the Canadian mission was to contain and destabilize the Taliban. Even if it is the most important part, there’s more to the story. If we saw the other Read more

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