I'm delighted to announce the launch of HuffPost Canada Impact. Impact has always been a key part of HuffPost's DNA -- not only telling stories but starting conversations around our shared passions and inviting our readers to connect, engage, and make a difference in the lives of others.
HuffPost Canada Impact joins a growing global Impact family that includes the U.S. edition and UK Impact, which launched last year. As HuffPost continues to expand internationally, and as our ability to connect and engage with others becomes less and less constrained by borders, we believe Impact has tremendous potential to help us all widen the circle of our caring.
In Canada, there's no better time than now to use all the tools at our disposal to widen that circle. HuffPost Canada has already featured stories highlighting the multiple crises Canadians face, from the recent Toronto gun violence to the divisive Quebec student protests -- both of which pose larger questions about the country's future. Through a combination of original reporting and comprehensive aggregation, Impact will be telling the stories that matter most -- and, just as important, helping people tell their stories themselves -- from poverty and immigration to education and aboriginal communities.
While Impact will spotlight problems, it will also focus on solutions, featuring stories of Canadian resilience in the face of adversity and offering real opportunities for readers to connect and take action. By launching Impact, which will include our popular Greatest Person feature, HuffPost Canada will be able to spotlight more inspirational Canadians like Hélène Campbell, the 21-year-old Ottawa woman who received a double lung transplant and sparked a growing international organ donation movement. It's a perfect manifestation of HuffPost Canada Impact's motto: "One story can spark a flame, one person can make a difference."
True to its spirit, HuffPost Impact comes to life thanks to a team of editors led by HuffPost Lifestyle managing editor Lisa Yeung, who has been involved in every HuffPost Canada launch to date.
HuffPost Canada Impact's original reporting kicks off with a story on solutions to the gang problem in Toronto after the most recent spate of shootings, a feature called "If I Could #ChangeCanada" that asks what Canadians would do to make the country a better place, and the first installment of our popular weekly Greatest Person feature. Later this week, watch for a slideshow of photos featuring people in Canada making a difference and a survey of Canada's most charitable Olympic athletes.
Our lineup of launch-day bloggers includes Habitat for Humanity Canada's Phil Kloer with a profile of the organization's first family home in Nova Scotia, Free the Children co-founders Craig and Marc Kielburger on deciding which causes to support, World Vision's Cheryl Hotchkiss on shopping ethically, journalist Sydney Loney on how Canadians can feel connected to crises in faraway countries, and Kirk and Kris Tobias on the Toronto cycling event they started to honor their mother and raise money for cancer charities.
So, please join me in welcoming Impact to the HuffPost Canada family. And as always, please use the comments section to let us know what you think.
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Canada has a national government elected by a minority of voters because of the failure of Canadians to adopt a system that would keep right wingers from being elected because the progressive majority splits their vote. That is one reason (only one though) for the shameful over-exploitation of natural resources and environmental degradation. How about prioritizing the important stuff?
And a feature about the "Greatest" Canadian is pretty un-Canadian in my view. American Exceptionalism does not need a Canadian counterpart. Canada has a lot of accomplishments that were not achieved in pursuit of superlatives. The desire to improve things and help others in our shared world in a cooperative way is what has defined the modern Canadian international character.
Lets rub a few neurons together, and see if we can ignite a real eternal flame.
Ms. Arianna, I really appreciate your unique and innovative web creation particularly of the folder to keep posted comments with replies included.
I am also recommending them to use their personal folders once made to share with their friends at social network they belong to.
I wish this kind of encouragement would some day lead to your launch of “HuffPost Japan Impact”.
Thank you,
just look at Olympics, what are the motto of it (faster, Higher, Stronger) all in the athletics and spirit of competition and human fitness and struggle to be faster, jump higher and stronger.
For the past 8 years there has been the usual media coverage of fastest men or women and higher jumpers and all but missing from all the coverage is the strongest, do you know why because for the past 8 years that title has been hold by Iran and Iranian and nobody ever mention it or celebrate it , Can you imagine of that title was hold by an American or any other nation how much publicity would surround it and how many picture of the holders and interview would be around.
I mean demonizing Iran and Iranian is something but not this effort by all the international media of not even mentioning the holders of the records of one of the pillars of Olympic is one of the lowest low that I have witnessed.