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Month: October 2013

Beatty: Most important accountability is to yourself

Paul Mayne, Western News Education must never stop or slow down, and it must encompass ethics and a sense of giving back to one’s community, said Perrin Beatty, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Beatty spoke to g …

Rise London: A path to self-employment

Rise London: A path to self-employment

Through collaboration with the Ivey Business School and multiple community agencies in London, Rise Asset Development (Rise) is launching a new avenue to economic independence through entrepreneurship for people who have mental health or addiction challenges.

Bentley: Probing deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum

Over the last four decades and more, Alice Munro has emerged as one of the world’s consummate writers. Consistently refusing the option of writing novels, she has used the short story as a vehicle for narratives of remarkable psychological depth and insight that also capture and convey the texture of life in rural and small-town southwestern Ontario.

Plug: Finding validation in the remarkable unremarked

After reading Alice Munro for the first time, I decided to lend my copy of Dance of the Happy Shades to my mother and then my sister. There is little reason to think either would have read Munro otherwise. In one small southern Ontario town after another, our house was like those around it: I owned copies of Black Beauty and Hansel and Gretel, and the Encyclopedia Brittanica had its place in our living room.

New building begins new era for Schulich

New building begins new era for Schulich

She knew the Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine was a big project. But as the building opened its doors yesterday, Brenda Stonehouse found big satisfaction in it as well.

Full plate of need faces Western Meal Exchange

Fortunately, Imama Omer and Jillian Macklin have never experienced true hunger pangs. But that’s not stopping the third-year students from ensuring those in the London community don’t have to go hungry.

Hajrullahu kicks his way into football history

On a sunny Saturday afternoon earlier this month, down the 401 in Windsor, Western kicker Lirim Hajrullahu cemented himself as the Mustangs’ all-time points leader with a 17-point performance against the Lancers in a 51-23 Western win.

Rise London: A path to self-employment

Rise London: A path to self-employment

Through collaboration with the Ivey Business School and multiple community agencies in London, Rise Asset Development (Rise) is launching a new avenue to economic independence through entrepreneurship for people who have mental health or addiction challenges.

Bentley: Probing deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum

Over the last four decades and more, Alice Munro has emerged as one of the world’s consummate writers. Consistently refusing the option of writing novels, she has used the short story as a vehicle for narratives of remarkable psychological depth and insight that also capture and convey the texture of life in rural and small-town southwestern Ontario.

Plug: Finding validation in the remarkable unremarked

After reading Alice Munro for the first time, I decided to lend my copy of Dance of the Happy Shades to my mother and then my sister. There is little reason to think either would have read Munro otherwise. In one small southern Ontario town after another, our house was like those around it: I owned copies of Black Beauty and Hansel and Gretel, and the Encyclopedia Brittanica had its place in our living room.

New building begins new era for Schulich

New building begins new era for Schulich

She knew the Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine was a big project. But as the building opened its doors yesterday, Brenda Stonehouse found big satisfaction in it as well.

Full plate of need faces Western Meal Exchange

Fortunately, Imama Omer and Jillian Macklin have never experienced true hunger pangs. But that’s not stopping the third-year students from ensuring those in the London community don’t have to go hungry.

Hajrullahu kicks his way into football history

On a sunny Saturday afternoon earlier this month, down the 401 in Windsor, Western kicker Lirim Hajrullahu cemented himself as the Mustangs’ all-time points leader with a 17-point performance against the Lancers in a 51-23 Western win.