Articles by Kaitlyn Smith

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Toronto-Danforth has its budget say

Attendees were split into groups and given a sheet where they wrote down their top three priorities. A spokesperson then presented their group’s advice, which was written down directly into a letter addressed to Finance Minister Bill Morneau.


Paris resident sought to help after terrorist attacks hit close to home

Axelle Dumas spent an hour wandering the streets of Paris following the deadly terror attacks Friday. The 20-year-old student and Paris native lives on Rue de la Fontaine au Roi, just a few doors from where police engaged in gunfire with attackers earlier in the evening. “I thought I could help people,” Dumas said.


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East York legionnaire recalls wartime as merchant mariner

In 1944, William O’Leary lied about his age and enlisted as a galley boy in the Merchant Marine. He was 15 years old. “I’ve sailed all over the world,” said O’Leary, who embarked from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, on a ship carrying food, ammunitions and coal to Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. En route to Odessa, Russia, his ship travelled through the North Atlantic, a playground, he said, for German U-boats that were notorious for picking off slow convoys of ships heading into and out of Canada.