By Karin Kloosterman
Ever wonder where Canada’s Foreign Ministry dollars go? When it comes to teaching Canadian-style global democracy and educational values, some of Canada’s taxpayer’s money goes to creating equal opportunities in Israel. A project through the Merchavim Institute in Ramle, Israel, is helping teach Israeli society how to embrace –– and access –– its multi-cultural [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

It happened a day after Canada and the rest of the world, but Israel celebrated Earth Day yesterday in style. While Israelis were caught with their pants down this year for Earth Hour (there was a very important Israel-Greece soccer match after all), they made up for it with last night’s concert at [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Ontario universities have some of the world’s most massive libraries, located at several locations over sprawling campuses. Spending hours at Robarts Library at the University of Toronto, used to make me wonder how on earth do the librarians keep track of all those books?
Well they couldn’t exactly, at least not in a system [...]

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