A pair of 20-year-old McGill University Physiology students, Town of Mount Royal’s Sam Wein and Dollard des Ormeaux’s Mathew Alter, both want to be doctors one day. It is no
I still get a bit teary-eyed when I think about my old friend
Harold Heft, whose life ended way too prematurely in 2015 at the age of 50 from a brain tumour. Harold grew up around the block from me in Côte Saint-Luc. We shared a love for writing and sports. Even after he moved to Toronto, where he married his soulmate Suzanne, we kept in touch.
Harold became a very prolific writer, penning his own book and often gracing the pages of different newspapers. He also carved a successful career for himself as a fundraiser in the health sector. Suzanne and I connected via Zoom last week. She told me that while her husband was in treatment for the brain cancer, he had started to work on a new literary project. âHarold, a writer all his life, now with a brain tumour located in the part of the brain that controls all communication function, was, at that time, unable to read, write or type,â she said. âBut he imagined a collection of non-fiction real-life stories about ever