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Feel Good Hour: People are helping each other through COVID-19 and we should celebrate that

Opinions April 3, 2020

By: Madeleine Chan, Staff Writer Look, I know our current situation seems grim. A global pandemic isn’t something that we should be happy about. But we also shouldn’t be blind to the kindness and compassion sprouting from these difficult circumstances. They have the ability to lift us up when we need it the most.  Social media is ripe with examples of the generosity of the human spirit. Take my neighbourhood’s Facebook group (yes, they somehow still exist). What is usually a page where middle-aged, nuclear-family parents complain about how “the homeless are taking over” is now a space where communal help…

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Click with compassion

EIC March 30, 2015

[caption id="attachment_1940" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of James Fox (Flickr)[/caption] Monica Lewinsky returned to the public stage to speak about her very public scandal at the TED Conference Truth and Dare on March 19. “At 22, I fell in love…

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