- Associated Press
In secular France, chaplains prepare to provide Olympians with spiritual support during the Games
As athletes rev up their training and organizers finalize everything from ceremonies to podiums before the Paris Olympics, more than 120 faith leaders are preparing for a different challenge — spiritually supporting some 10,000 Olympic athletes from around the world, especially those whose medal dreams will inevitably get crushed. “We’ll need to bring them back to earth, because it can feel like the end of the world after working on this goal for four or five years,” said Jason Nioka, a former judo champion and deacon who’s in charge of the largest contingent of Olympic chaplains, about 40 Catholic priests, nuns and lay faithful. Ordained and lay representatives from the five major global religions — Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism — have been working together for months to set up a shared hall in the Olympic village outside Paris.
- CBC
Dene identity affects 'every aspect of who I am,' says med school graduate from Wrigley, N.W.T.
Leanne Niziol says growing up in Wrigley, N.W.T., she didn't see any First Nations doctors. "That was a really significant gap that I wanted to change," Niziol said.She recently graduated from the University of Manitoba's Doctor of Medicine program, a career she says has been a dream of hers since she was little Niziol, originally from Pehdzeh Ki First Nation in Wrigley, is thought to be the first Dene doctor to come from that community. "It's been a lot of emotions, it's been a long road to com
- The Telegraph
I employed huge numbers of migrants – and I now realise the damage terrible mass migration has done
Growth in living standards – as any South American junta could tell you – comes one of two ways: real or artificially. The real thing is the product of getting more people into work, embracing technology, and reducing inefficiencies. But all manner of sleights of hand can conjure its illusion. Printing money will convince people – at least in the short term – that there’s more to go around. The graveyard of economic history shows how severe that drug’s comedown is. Yet, looking back at our own r
