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An inheritance of music

t was like finding treasure. It happened one day when Whitney Ross-Barris, 33, was riding a Toronto streetcar. She was listening to the songs on her iPod repeatedly. Suddenly, she recognized the singer as her grandfather. “Something in the way the singer said a certain word or a couple of words together,” she said, remembering the moment.


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Room for dreams and memories

Since 2011, Kendal Gerard, 27, has blogged about life in her East York bungalow. The blog was project-oriented at first, and so named Before and After. Eventually it was renamed to reflect a big decision she and her husband, Pierre Gerard, 29 made to Little Bungalow: Less Space, More Happiness. After a year of increasingly ambitious blueprints, Gerard and her husband decided that the original 1940s floor plan was just fine.


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Comfort came in a basket

In a room at the shelter, Jordan Smith found a bag of espresso coffee in a laundry basket. “When I saw the coffee, I felt like I could invite my friends over and make espresso for all of them at my own house,” she said. “I felt like I was ready to start my own life and live with my daughter.”




Room in your heart for one more

It’s simply hard to ignore the faces of small balls of fur peering back up at you from a tiny room lined with cages. What should not be ignored is how these cats arrived at this place, nor what will happen to them.


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Welshman recalls leaving railroad to serve in air war

In 1943, Kenneth Leak and his fellow crewmen were flying from Malta to Marseille, France, when one of the Dakota aircraft’s two engines stopped. “The pilot said, ‘Well, fellas, this is the point of no return. We had two engines and now we have one. We’re too far to turn back,’” Leak said. The transport aircraft had 30 men aboard, but landed safely in France.


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Veteran recalls horrors of a south-Asian war 40 years ago

Remembrance meant something very different to new Canadian Mazibur Rahman. On March 25, 1971, Rahman recalled the Pakistan army launched an attack on the Bengalis in Dhaka. “(They) killed hundreds of natives, raped the women and set fire to the villages. We passed many sleepless nights, starved for days together,” Mazibur said. “The army would raid village after village in search of Mukti Bahini (freedom fighters).”