Friday, December 27th, 2013 by Charlie Butts
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
Hannah Taylor was five years-old when her and her mother drove passed a man eating out of a garbage can in Winnipeg, Canada. Puzzled, Hannah asked her mother why he would do this. She introduced Hannah to the dire reality of homelessness. For the rest of the year, the story of the man troubled Hannah […]
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 by Raluca Besliu
In 2009, after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent surgery, then 22 years-old Yael Cohen decided to start a non-profit organization called F*ck Cancer. Cohen recalls why she decided to create the organization: “The movement started from my head in my hands, defeated and defiant, wanting to support my mom. I decided I would […]
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Monday, July 23rd, 2012 by Charlie Butts
Seventeen year-old Bashir Mohamed, himself a Kenyan refugee, is upset with restrictive health policies a Canadian Cabinet official is imposing on refugees in that country. That cabinet minister, Jason Kenney, has made headlines recently for calling a Canadian Deputy Premier an A—hole as well as staging a fake swearing-in ceremony on TV. Since Bashir couldn’t […]
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