The War Experience: Grade 10 Integrated English and History Class

LCS teacher Amy McGrath and I are Canadians who teach Canadian History to many students whose first experience with the country began the moment they stepped off a plane in September. Our job is more complicated than it used to be. Aside from teaching students that while there are numerous overlaps between Canadian and American History, and that throughout the last 250 years, we have had the propensity to get involved in each other’s wars, occasionally against each other, there are stark differences between American and Canadian History. Our main task, however, is to separate fact from myth. Canadians are destined to be misunderstood both by themselves and others. Despite popular rhetoric to the contrary, we are not a country that thanks bank machines, apologizes when slighted by others and the vast majority of us don’t live on the tundra but within 100 kilometres of the American border. Most Canadians…

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Sam Turnbull ’03 | Vegan Brand Builder (Alumni in Food Businesses)

For one who never expected to become a vegan, and who didn’t want to become one when she first felt the inclination, Sam Turnbull has executed a magnificent transformation into a leader and innovator in the vegan movement. It started on an early December evening, “not feeling terrific”, and a decision to watch the documentary Vegucated, about three meat-eating New Yorkers’ discovery of the benefits of veganism and the uncomfortable truths of animal husbandry. “I thought it was going to be about vegetables,” Sam says, but the next morning she cleaned her fridge and cupboards of all animal products. This was a significant decision for a woman raised on a tree farm in Sunderland, ON., on the brink of cottage country in a family of hunters, butchers and chefs with chickens in the yard and animal heads on the walls. Besides dogs, cats, gerbils and turtles, she had a rabbit…

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Danny McCubbin ’82 | A Force For Change (Alumni in Food Businesses)

Danny McCubbin ’82 describes himself as a food campaigner, and he occupies a unique intersection of the culinary sector where art, business, media, social change and gastronomy meet. You may wonder what that means but it all makes sense when you look at the path he has taken. Start with his long-held belief that food can transform lives—starting with his own. It’s a fascinating journey that has seen him play a central role in building the restaurant, publishing, television and social media empire of one of the original and most renowned celebrity chefs, Jamie Oliver. At the same time, he has helped develop community and remedial social programs in the UK and Italy that have given hope and improved the lives of countless people, young and old. Born and raised near Brisbane on Australia’s Gold Coast, Danny came from a food-oriented family. “My mom was a great cook,” he says.…

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