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Sheer Joy! At Cammac
Only at Cammac Summer Music Camp in Quebec where the amateur of musical theater can experience such joy! Only Elissa Bernstein can elicit...


How much time should you spend with your child? Would you believe 15 minutes a w
Many many years ago, he was the manager of Pascal's, then the largest hardware store in Old Montreal - before Old Montreal was Old...


Kids have trouble learning online. Is the bricks and mortar school any better?Do kids learn anythin
I once read a newspaper article about 3 kids in a poor town in a poor country. Someone, i can't remember who, wanted to test out a theory...


The Birth of an Idea and a Revolution in Education. A happening which captures the mind and the hea
‘It takes a village to care for a child’....but it only takes one person with a passion to galvanize that village. ------- Monday....


I dreamt I saw a host of golden...no, no, no, Mr. Wordsworth, not daffodils…DANDELIONS!
Why are dandelions considered worthless and daffodils considered sooooooo beautiful? Is it because dandelions are weeds and grow wild,...


1 - If you start from scratch, there are no old, musty rules to bind your feet.
I was 40, had graduated from law school, passed my Bar exams (Yes, Hortense, there is a compassionate God!) and was working as an...


2 - It took 3 hours to write my first column of Legal-Ease. It took two years to se
I After the Montreal Star became defunct, the Montreal Gazette snapped up Legal-Ease and I then syndicated it across the country. One...


3 How I stopped the Toronto Star from "Qvetching!"
When I was writing Legal-Ease, my column which preceded You! be the Judge, my daughter, Elissa, was in high school writing her great...


"Our product is steel. Our strength is people"
I had made a deal with the Editor-in-Chief of the Report on Business, Globe & Mail. “Okay, you win, I won’t extend my 700 word column to...


Rosa. Whenever I think of her, a smile spreads on my face!
Everyone felt comfortable in her presence. She was so non-judgmental. And fun. Nothing was verboten. There was the story of Rosa waiting...
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