We should be teaching Canadian civics and values to new immigrants, and we haven't been doing that as a society.

The Yom Kippur War will always stand out in history as the major military event that helped save Israel from destruction.

We have too many common interests to make a fundamental difference.

I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?

I've been teaching for 14 years and I've been on a bunch of field trips, but this, bar none, was the best. The biggest pleasure I got was seeing the kids catch fish. Even the most timid and shy kids were exuberant by the end of the day. It was marvelous.

To be sure sometimes we differ, ... but the point is not that one society values privacy more than the other ... but the application of those values.