The penny drops — neighbourhood improves!| One of the students renting a house in our neighbourhood who I met last week while updating Block Watch info, sent this very thoughtful email to me and wanted it passed on to their

A talented English class took on the writing and production of a musical stage play about the coal mining history of their town. Jack wanted to involve teaching, learning and somehow include more people than just the class members. To

When a young English teacher read about a new writer receiving a Governor General’s Award for literature for her first book, he wrote her to ask if she’d drive two hours to his classroom in Nanaimo and be interviewed by

A son’s journey after an uncle got him a job with an aviation company that included homelessness but ended with being a sought-after employee. His mother’s counsel was, “Stay with it, you don’t know where it’s going to take you.”

One woman’s effort to engage others in a sketchy section of Chicago totally changed people’s behaviour from passengers’ total silence to animated conversation.