As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you