Reading Time: 3 minutes Playing in harmony is perhaps the most perfect example of human co-operation
Tag: Africa
Sport can unite people and bring about change
Reading Time: 3 minutes In striving to win, we realize our potential and learn to work with people we may not normally associate with
The abysmal scorecard of socialist revolutions
Reading Time: 4 minutes Real communism has failed repeatedly to provide better living conditions. Why do countries like Venezuela persist?
Compassion is at the heart of the best of humanity
Reading Time: 3 minutes Those who show the greatest compassion are among the most powerful and influential, because they’re driving change
Companions for life: trust and integrity
Reading Time: 3 minutes While the dishonest may appear content, we don’t see the inner turmoil they suffer from knowing that they’ve done wrong
The lessons of Rwanda seem lost on Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes We funded, educated and then sheltered the man who gave the Rwandan genocide its intellectual impetus. Will we make the same mistakes in Mali?
Stepping beyond stereotypes to right wrongs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The key is to focus on acceptable and unacceptable actions, not the ethnicity or gender of the actor
Bring out the best in others by bringing out the best in yourself
Reading Time: 3 minutes The desire to love and serve others is innate in the human spirit. And those traits can help us accomplish great things as a society
Was Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe always a thug?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s hard to know for sure, but one can safely say that, once ensconced in power, thuggery came easily to him
A spirit of hope shines through tragedy in the Congo
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a male-dominated, corrupt and violent political climate, Congolese women stand together to be heard as they change their country from within