Canadian hockey player loses Olympic gold but gains a family in Japan

By SHAWN STAR
Though Canada’s women’s hockey team didn’t win the gold medal at the Nagano Olympics, one player still came away feeling like a champion.
Without being in Japan for very long, Vicky Sunohara could tell it would be an unforgettable experience, but she never anticipated how overwhelming it would all be.
“We got off the plane [...]

“Prisoner of Tehran” author Marina Nemat says Iranian-Canadians offended by her book

by Andrew Gelfand
Freedom is such a subjective word that a lot of people in the Western world have no concept of the liberties they have. But some people experience oppression that most couldn’t begin to fathom.
Marina Nemat, author of the memoir Prisoner of Tehran, knows what it feels like to be persecuted for simply [...]

North Pole explorer makes it to South Pole, to help poor kids in Hamilton Ontario area

by Victoria Wells
 
 
           It was the biggest challenge Steve Stipsits ever had to face.
Trudging 200 kilometres on skis, dragging a 100-pound sled behind him and confronting -50 C wind chills that sapped his strength and never ceased – all with no hope of escape.
            Though he had prepared himself physically and mentally for [...]

Neither frostbite nor storms prevent Ontario builder from South Pole charity feat

by Sarah Frangione
            He’s been there and done that, well sort of. So why would a 46-year-old husband and father of three and his team of part- time explorers decide to do it again?
 
 
            Steve Stipsits, owner and president of Branthaven Homes in Burlington, Ont., in a [...]

Recession forces Toronto limo maker to “Pimp my Hearse”

 
 
 
by Jessicka Loduca
 
 
 

Notions of what is essential to consumers are always changing. High-end goods like limousines are generally considered a luxury, but some jetsetters consider them primary needs. Yet in this current economic downturn, there is a decline in the number of premium products consumers are willing to splurge on.
           National Specialty [...]

Memo to Journalism students: Don’t Panic, says interviewing guru Paul McLaughlin

by Farrah Cole
            Paul McLaughlin is telling journalism students to ignore the doom and gloom reports of changes in the media.
            McLaughlin, author of Asking Questions: the Art of the Media Interview, was at Centennial College recently discussing the changing roles of journalists from producers or writers or photographers to all [...]

Olympic hockey player wants pro league for women like the NHL

by Ciaran Thompson

There are shots, saves, rebounds, goals, penalties and, surprising to some, lots of body contact, yet women’s hockey is still not as popular as men’s hockey.
            Vicky Sunohara, a three-time Olympic medal winner for Canada in women’s hockey, believes the popularity for the sport is increasing and will someday get the recognition it [...]

Dr. Martin Osler’s alien contact lenses scare George Romero movie fans

by Jason Wong

Zombies, despite their apparent frailty, are much more resilient than the Titanic. For this reason, Toronto optometrist Dr. Martin Osler believes his business can sail around the looming recession.
            Having supplied cosmetic contact lenses for films such as “Dawn of the Dead”, “Resident Evil”, “Ginger Snaps”

Dr. Martin Osler at Centennial College Journalism

and [...]

Cancer Survivor Charles Karstadt wants to finish bike race “upright”

By Brittany Prince

 
‘Why me?’ is a question that Charles Karstadt asked himself for years.
On June 15, 1994 Karstadt, a husband and a father from Richmond Hill, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease.
 After finding a lump on the side of his neck, he saw a doctor who assumed it was a swollen gland and put him [...]