A Deeper History

This month at the Castle we’re celebrating 25 years of black history in Canada. Actually, we’re celebrating more than 150 years of black history but it was 25 years ago when Jean Augustine, or to be precise The Honourable Jean Augustine Queen’s Privy Council, Companion of the Order of Canada, introduced a motion in Parliament […]
Keeping Hope Alive

On Sunday, October 6, 2019 all across Canada, more than 80,000 people ran or walked in the CIBC Run for the Cure to raise money for breast cancer research. It was a particularly special day for me as I proudly watched our Trafalgar Castle students receive the Volunteer Award for their more than 10 years […]
What’s happening to our Children?

I’ve seen enough research misrepresented or misinterpreted by the media to be a cautious consumer of what I read or watch. In particular, I’m always on the lookout for spurious correlations – assertions that two or more events are causally related when they’re not. For example, between the years 2000 and 2009, there was a […]