In this area where I am living today, two schools have reversed a decision they had made to replace Mother’s and Father’s days with “Parents’ day”. The idea behind this decision is that the country is invaded by the belief that a person alone can choose his own gender.I do not want to go into ...
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Social issues
Human Dogs
In our country, there is a phrase that people repeat to express their objection to poverty, for example, or to a bitter reality… they would say, pardon me: “this is a dog’s life”! This phrase was turned, by some…, into reality. Who among you was able to watch the video report presented by "Al Mayadeen ...
Read moreThe World's Richness
Yesterday morning, I was disheartened by a man I saw looking for something to eat in a dumpster here in Laval City, Canada. He saw me looking at him. He put back the lid on the bin, and walked away. Poverty has no city! I communicated this wound to our home. Samar, my daughter-in-law, told ...
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I was paying a visit. Our conversation led me to talk about the prevalence of drug use. A young man who was with us joined the discussion. He recounted that their school organized a trip on the occasion of their graduation. They were forty young men and women. On the way, the bus in which ...
Read moreOn the Road
I was walking in a neighboring area. I saw two women on the road, each carrying a child who seemed to me to be her grandchild. The grandmother is an icon of sacrificial love. I passed by a little. The voice of a man entering a store reached me. Addressing the shop owner the way ...
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