Kirsten Doyle (Canada), Author at World Moms Network

School Shooting: A Letter To My Sons

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Thu, 26 May 2022 15:22:48 +0000

I wrote this in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in December 2012. At the time, my boys were 6 and 8 years old -similar ages to the children who lost their lives on that terrible day. I know that many parents will be feeling this way now, after the tragedy in Texas. Our […]

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A Man Who Changed The World

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 01:05:47 +0000

Many years ago, when I was still living in South Africa, I was on the organizing committee for a national conference at which Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the keynote speaker. There were about ten of us on the committee, and we were all unspeakably excited at the prospect of an in-person meeting with this great […]

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Twenty Years On: Reflecting On 9/11

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:25:54 +0000

On September 11, 2001 – the day known to the world as 9/11 – I was a year into my new life in Canada. My office in the west end of Toronto had a perfect view of the Toronto skyline, including the distinctive CN Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the world. About an […]

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Growing Up In Apartheid South Africa As A White Kid

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 07:00:41 +0000

When I was six years old, my father’s job took us from South Africa to the United States. The year was 1976, and South Africa was reeling from the Soweto uprising, a student-led protest against the Apartheid government that ended in the deaths of at least 176 Black school students, with thousands more being injured. […]

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CANADA: Campaigning For Change

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 04:06:19 +0000

It seems that there is no place on earth that is immune to bigotry. Not even Canada, which has been regarded by many as one of the world’s last bastions of sanity. After a campaign that was eerily similar to the Trump-vs-Hillary battle, Ontario elected as its Premier a man who is eerily similar to […]

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CANADA: In Search Of Hope In The Wake Of Mass Shootings

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 16:19:53 +0000

When I first came to Canada just over seventeen years ago, I was struck by the fact that every murder in Toronto made front page news. Every single one. When I heard that 2000, the year of my arrival, had seen 81 homicides in the Greater Toronto Area, I was slightly stunned. 81 homicides in […]

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CANADA: 9/11 – Where Do I Begin?

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 05:00:29 +0000

Where do I begin to describe the horror that I shared with the world on September 11, 2001? It was a horror so big that at first, I refused to believe it. Planes deliberately flying into buildings? A terrorist attack against the United States? It had to be a hoax. Where do I begin to […]

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CANADA: What Kind Of Mother Am I?

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 06:00:41 +0000

A few years ago, I went on a retreat for moms of kids with disabilities. I remember being a little skeptical when I signed up: the word “retreat” conjured up mental images of doing yoga, eating nothing but root vegetables, and spending great swathes of time alone in the great outdoors (which is not bad […]

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CANADA: Ten Insights From An Autism Conference

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 11:59:32 +0000

Last week, I had the honour of representing World Moms Network at the Geneva Centre for Autism 2016 Symposium, held in Toronto. Over the course of three days, I reconnected with friends in the autism community and made some new ones, I saw an act by an autistic stand-up comic who was absolutely hilarious, and […]

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CANADA: Hope For The Future In Troubled Times

Kirsten Doyle (Canada) — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 06:00:56 +0000

As parents, we tend to spend a lot of time worrying about the world are growing up in. There seem to be threats lurking everywhere, from seemingly innocuous neighbours who turn out to be child molesters to terrorist organizations and dangerous people being elected to powerful positions. It is easy to be frightened for our […]

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