For International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year, I was honoured to be able to pay tribute during a virtual tour…
Dateline: Courseulles-sur-Mer, France: You sure attract a lot of attention when you ride through the streets of Normandy in…
Esther Thorley’s brother Meyer Bubis, who was eleven years older than her, had enlisted in the Toronto-based Royal Regiment of Canada on Sept. 7, 1939, mere days after Hitler’s Nazi forces had invaded Poland to start WWll. Bubis would eventually be part of the ill-fated Allied raid on Dieppe, France in August 1942. After he was killed, Thorley waited for her eighteenth birthday in June 1943, and enlisted. She was one of only 270 Canadian Jewish women to wear a uniform for Canada in WWll. Thorley, an Ajax, Ontario resident, died suddenly on Feb. 13, 2018.
It is fitting, in so many ways, that this week marked the 73rd anniversary of the disastrous Allied raid on…
Three years ago, my family walked by the tombstone of Jewish Canadian serviceman George Meltz, of Toronto, standing out among…
George Meltz, in uniform, with a brother, (courtesy Isabella Meltz) Seventy years ago, a 25 year old Toronto wallpaper salesman,…
Centennial College journalism faculty and students will play a high profile role in the coming national 2012 Canadian Association of…
Thirty eight amazing journalism grads had their names listed in the College’s Thursday afternoon convocation program book today, and it…
(courtesy CBC) NEWS: Dean Nate Horowitz informs us that they will be filming part of the CBC series “Being Erica”…
Next week, Centennial College’s journalism program will be hosting some big events that will bring our students front and centre…