My family got together last week to mark one-year since my extraordinary grandmother — the quintessential immigrant-family matriarch — passed away. When she and my grandfather left Ireland in 1957 with their eight children for a new life in Canada, [...]
The GAP is doing damage control this week after releasing a T-shirt with the words “Manifest Destiny” emblazoned across it. Now, the urban contemporary clothing chain may have thought that “manifest destiny” was a cool way of saying “make your [...]
Yes, this blog is about another special "International Day of..." event. I've recently written about the UN International Day of Peace and Mental Illness Awareness Week. But this week, on October 11 to be exact, the UN will mark the world's [...]
This is our first guest blog. It comes to you from Pemberton-based writer Cindy Filipenko. Portions of this column first appeared in the Whistler Question newspaper on September 20, 2012. Heads up: Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) kicked off on [...]
A remarkable thing happened to me last week. I was at an International Day of Peace event in Whistler, sharing the Hello Pledge and encouraging participants to sign on to the Hello movement. It was a lovely event, with shared [...]
This year, 2012, the International Day of Peace is on a Friday, special activities and celebrations will take place all across the world over the 2012 Peace Day Weekend, including festivals, concerts, a global Peace Wave with moments of silence [...]
This post is a ENCORE PRESENTATION of one posted on March 27, 2012. But as kids go back to school today, I thought it was worth reviewing one of the skills I wish they were taught more of in school [...]
Labour Day is fast approaching and summer is winding down. While I realize that summer officially carries on to September 21, our social perception of summer tends to wrap up with Labour Day weekend. Kids head back to school, new [...]
This past Sunday was a special day in my community. It was the 8th annual Slow Food Cycle Sunday, where bike riders of all ages and abilities take a leisurely ride along Pemberton Meadows Road to visit the local farms [...]
I write this post on August 14, #PositivelySocial Day. #PositivelySocial Day is a social media-based promotion created by Frank Eliason (http://www.frankeliason.com/) to focus awareness on the increasingly negative and, at times, vitriolic, communications we experience across social media. Most of [...]