We pull up a chair with two local teachers who go beyond the classroom — and our country’s borders — on annual missions to help those in need ANTHONY GORYS Teacher at Father Bressani Catholic High School Anthony Gorys and his students were busing back down from Monteverde, the Costa Rican town near the majestic …
Author Colette Lafia tells us how the one thing we’re missing is what we’ve spent our whole lives trying to avoid: surrender Many of us think of the act of surrender as giving ourselves up to something negative — letting the enemy win. But according to Colette Lafia, a San Francisco-based writer, spiritual director, blogger …
How do Vaughan’s elementary schools stack up? When it comes to academics, Vaughan is comfortably above average, according to the Fraser Institute’s annual School Report Cards. The study from the independent public policy think-tank looks at over 3,000 elementary schools across Ontario, rating each from 0 to 10 based on the school’s overall performance on …
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Practical golf tips to get you started right for 2015 As spring comes back to life, so too do new hopes for the coming golf season. And you’ll find no shortage of “solutions” for beefing up your game. Golf club manufacturers have sexy ads luring you with the latest game-changing technology. New irons claim to …
Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, was a good day for Elena Ruggero-Gallucci. A Canadian Blood Services OneMatch stem cell clinic had been held in her honour that afternoon at Al Palladini Community Centre in Vaughan, and it was the biggest donor turnout that OneMatch’s Vaughan district had ever seen. A Vaughan resident and former elementary school …
The minute Michelle Dubé wakes up in the morning she turns on the news. As she gets ready, CP24 plays in the background; while eating breakfast, she flips through the newspaper. In the car heading to work, she tunes into Newstalk 1010, so that by the time she arrives at the CTV studio she’s already …
Lina Policaro, general manager of the Policaro Automotive Family, on working in a family business, leadership and giving back Q The Policaro Automotive Family has been a business institution in Brampton for 35 years. How have you managed to stay so successful over the past three decades? A “Customer service, that’s what we pride ourselves …
After more than three years of unlawful incarceration in a Cuban jail during a drawn-out legal dispute, businessman Cy Tokmakjian has returned home to Canada — and most importantly: to his family. Barry Papazian, legal counsel for the Tokmakjian family and their Vaughan-based transportation business, Tokmakjian Group, explained the company founder is indeed home and …
At 12:46 p.m. yesterday, with my body gushing full of adrenaline like I’ve never experienced in my life, I squeezed the push-to-talk trigger on the control stick of my high-performance, aerobatic two-seater aircraft and emphatically announced the three words that most pilots fortunately never say in their entire flying career. These three words typically provoke …