Current issue—Spring 2010:
Highlights from archives
2006
A future seeded with promise
The next to last time I saw Dr. James Young, former Chief Coroner of Ontario, was 23 years ago in the Penetanguishene General Hospital. He was at my feet, having arrived only minutes earlier, attending at the birth of my second child. He called my husband Gordon to witness the birth of our daughter and welcome her with loving hands into the world.
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AIDS, Poverty & Women
The best songs speak truth to a society and its people. During one of my trips to Tanzania, a choir welcomed my colleague and me with a song that had a haunting refrain: “HIV kills everyone — men, women and children. They are all being killed.” That is the reality of life in Tanzania. Yet [...]
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