The Toronto Observer

The legendary back stage of The Rivoli played host to a wide variety of writers Thursday night at the 16th annual Totally Unknown Writers Festival.

Boo at the Zoo, an annual event, attracted dozens of kids on Halloween. Children dressed as dinosaurs, pirates, witches, ducks and piles of leaves were able to see the animals while trick-or-treating through the zoo.

An H1N1 vaccine shot isn’t the only option to fight the flu this season.

Journalist Hugh Winsor and the Canadian Journalism Foundation hosted a lively debate at the University of Toronto’s Innis College on November 17th about media ethics titled ‘News Blackouts Save Lives.’

The mere thought of Adolf Hitler gaining control over his beloved adopted country was enough to send Jan de Vries off to war.

For three years during the Second World War, Donald Stewart zigzagged across oceans; he and his shipmates preferred invisibility. Today he’s running for president of the residents’ council at the Sunnybrook Veterans Centre.

In the early fall of 1940, Vickey Fox and a fellow nurse suddenly found themselves caught on a deserted High Street in eastern Surrey.

For Jim Lister, this Remembrance Day commemorated a positive experience because of his keen affinity with water.

Vilien Thang remembered the summer she was 14. Many young strangers came into her life.

In both wartime and peace, Pentti (Ben) Jarvenpaa, has relied on his instinct to survive.