Susan Schwartz

9 hours ago | pressenterpriseonline.com | Susan Schwartz

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1 week ago | newsreel.com.au | Susan Schwartz

By Susan SchwartzThe BBC – affectionately known as “Auntie” for its trusted and respected relationship with audiences – will stop broadcasting free-to-air television by 2035. The official announcement was made recently by BBC Director-General Tim Davie who, after a long-winded speech about trust, said it was now time to confirm a digital switchover in the 2030s. “We need to own a digital switchover, not get dragged into one, so we can and proactively shape the future,” Mr Davie said.

1 week ago | montrealgazette.com | Susan Schwartz

Dozens of members of the Irish community and community leaders walked 2.1 kilometres on Sunday to remember and honour the 6,000 Irish immigrants who died of typhus during the summer of 1847 and are buried in a mass grave in an industrial area on Bridge St., southeast of Montreal’s downtown core. The location of the largest mass grave in Canada is marked by a 30-tonne, three-metre-high boulder known officially as the Irish Commemorative Stone but more commonly known as the Black Rock.

1 month ago | montrealgazette.com | Susan Schwartz

The family of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney has launched a philanthropic chair in Type 1 diabetes at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM). Mulroney, who died in early 2024, was a longtime patient of Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret, an endocrinologist and director of the Diabetes Clinic and the Metabolic Diseases Research Unit at the IRCM. A world expert in diabetes research and care, particularly Type 1 diabetes, he will direct the chair for its first year.

1 month ago | montrealgazette.com | Susan Schwartz

Entertainment And Life Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable. – Leonard Cohen, in 2016 in The New YorkerLate one January afternoon in 2009, a reader called to comment on a column I’d written — and we got to talking. She told me how, once her children were launched, she’d sold the house in which she’d raised them and moved to a rented upper duplex.