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By Rupert Johnson According to Oprah Winfrey in order to succeed “you have to be 100 percent of yourself.” In other words don’t try to be someone else. I have my doubts about the 100 percent characterization in that we ...

Editor’s note: We received this story, last week, in an email from one of our readers. It’s such an amazing and touching story — about unselfishness and kindness — from a flight attendant on Delta Flight 15, written following 9-11, that we thought we ...

By Sandy Daley When Michael Brandon Hill, a 20 year old man with a history of mental illness snuck into the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur Georgia last Tuesday, armed with an AK 47 style rifle and ...

Margaret Thatcher wrote, “What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to work hard and a certain sense ...

Despite Major Advances, Women’s Counselor Says Same-Gender Infighting among Enduring Problems It’s safe to say that women are on the ascendancy on many accounts: • Throughout the next decade, women will be the beneficiaries of the largest transference of wealth ...

By Rupert Johnson People should not read too much into one or two by-elections, but the by-elections in Ontario on August 01, 2013 were fundamentally different. The five by-elections that were held in former Liberal strongholds signalled a significant warning ...

Ever since I was in grade ten, I made it a point to begin seeking out knowledge on my history and culture, as that information was absent from my school experience. It was amazing to see how my awareness about ...

By Ernest J. Guiste Pride Columnist In this, my follow-up post on the question of the propriety of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) adjudicating claims involving claims of racial profiling, I assert that this inferior tribunal has no ...

By Rupert Johnson It is utterly ridiculous that the Canadian authorities have refused to grant citizenship to three long standing residents of Canada on the grounds that all three refused to swear allegiance to Queen Elizabeth the Second. Their refusal ...

By Dwayne Morgan Pride Columnist If you’ve been following my columns, you’d know that earlier this year, I brought 14 Torontonians with me to South Africa, for a two week exploration of the history and culture of the country. Like ...