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Canadians are discovering both the financial and environmental paradise that is Panama; here is a guide to what many are describing as the ‘Dubai of the Americas’.
At the crossroads of both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Panama has always had the geographical location to become the region’s most attractive tourist destination. It may have taken awhile, but the world is finally realizing what Panamanians have known all along; location is everything.
Bullying has been blamed for recent teenage suicides in Quebec and Ontario and its various forms of abuse are finally receiving the awareness its victims have long cried out for.
I recently saw a YouTube video titled “Whats going on...” featuring Jonah Mowry and if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend that you do. The video illustrates the face of a bullied teenager who has had to endure both physical and psychological abuse throughout his adolescent life. His scars and his tears are startlingly palpable but they are overshadowed by the courageous attempt to present his depressing life-story. It is a persevering message for victims of all ages, sexualities and cultures to learn from and coming from a distraught 8th grader makes it even more inspiring.
When I was in the 10th grade, I was told that the idea of the melting pot was the antithesis of a multicultural society. That the Canadian ideal was that of a cultural mosaic, where differences are celebrated and ushered in with a sense of wonder and enlightenment. Looking at Canada's domestic television programming, I sometimes wonder about that.
We have come very far, and made great strides forward, but sometimes, the feeling is not that of a national community, but of groups of people with wildly disparate interests, sometimes grouped together by nothing more than a quirk of geography or fate. The very notion of a cultural mosaic has actually separated us, in a way.
I remember the first time a personal computer was purchased for my household, it was a sleek looking beige box with a screen and a slot for a “floppy” disc, along with a matching keyboard and a one button mouse. On the side of the box you could see the recognizable, multicolored apple logo. That’s right my first personal computer was a Mac.
Without knowing it we had just joined the growing community of people who wanted to reach a better living by including technology in their everyday routine, we became a part of the apple users.
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