This category showcases the timeline of Canadian Lawyer, Social entrepreneur and public figure’s publications in social entrepreneurship.
Peace project beacon of hope AFGHANISTAN: Group rallies various faiths to join hands and raise funds to help rebuild war-torn country Nicholas Keung, Immigration/Diversity Reporter, Toronto Star, 2 Sep 2006 Schoolchildren who graduated from a literacy class pose in Andkhoi, Afghanistan. Ninety-eight children took the class, made possible by the non-governmental …
Jew, Somalis Launch Mentoring Program By Paul Lungen, Staff Reporter, Canadian Jewish News, November 6, 2008 The Jewish-Somali Project launched last week at a Toronto high school. Announcing the initiative were, from left, James Morton, MarkPersaud, Bernie Farber, Howard English and Digal Haio. TORONTO — Its proponents didn’t quite bill it as a …
Q&A: A Canadian Life Committed to Justice By Samuel Getachew, Huffington Post, 09/26/2012 Long before Mark Persaud became the Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal winning activist, the noted Toronto lawyer spent many trying days as a new immigrant on the streets of Toronto, homeless. He opens up on the early days as an immigrant, his law …
CIPP’s Mark Persaud and Ahmed Hussen joins Amanda Lindhout in Red Deer, Alberta to launch Somali women scholarship program Source: Canadian International Peace Project Website CIPP’s Mark Persaud and Ahmed Hussen joins Amanda Lindhout in Red Deer, Alberta to launch Somali women scholarship program Mark Persaud, Amanda Lindhout and Ahmed Hussen at First Christian Reformed Church …
Success Leaves Clues: Trailblazer Edition 6 By Irene Becker, 3Q Leadership Blog, September 17, 2018 I think that it is especially important to honour those who have lived a life of service and whose work has changed and saved many lives. Mark Persaud is such a man, and I am delighted to share his answers …
Justice Department Managers to Get Diversity Training By Robert Todd, Law Times, March 16, 2009 The federal Justice Department is forcing its managers to take diversity training, a move made public a year after a Senate committee heard scathing testimony alleging minorities are largely blocked from rising to the department’s upper echelons. Justice Department …
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Peace Plan: From a life on the streets of Toronto to a spot in law school, Mark Persaud is attacking the biggest challenge Of his life the only way he knows how: With everything he’s got. By Sheila Dropkin If someone were to make a film about Mark Persaud’s life, although the story would resemble …
Alumni Profiles Osgoode Hall Law School of York University Alumni Magazine (Winter, 2007 Issue) Peace Prize nominee Remembers Life on the Streets Each morning when Mark Persaud, ‘91, LLM ‘01, enters his closet to get dressed, he sees a simple blue shirt hanging there – a reminder of his humble beginnings in Canada when he …
A Canadian Life Committed To Justice Samuel Getachew, The Huffington Post 09/26/12 12:17 Long before Mark Persaud became the Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal winning activist, the noted Toronto lawyer spent many trying days as a new immigrant on the streets of Toronto, homeless. He opens up on the early days as an immigrant, his law …
JEWS, SOMALIS LAUNCH MENTORING PROGRAM By Paul Lungen, Staff Reporter – November 6, 2008 The Jewish-Somali Project launched last week at a Toronto high school. Announcing the initiative were, from left, James Morton, Mark Persaud, Bernie Farber, Howard English and Digal Haio. TORONTO — Its proponents didn’t quite bill it as a light unto the …
