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Staring Fear in the Face at Your Child's Graduation

Andrea Paine | Posted 08.30.2012 | Canada
Read More: Graduation, Fear, Breast Cancer, Inspiration, Confidence, Choice, Happiness, Cancer Survivor, Cancer, Parenting, Childhood, Canada News
Andrea Paine

Looking back at this old life of mine, I realize how many of these fears, both big and small, were unfounded. But life as it is now, is seen through a cancer survivor's lens. Although I will be first to admit that there is the odd time when I have to stare fear in the eye, and fight to back it down, I fear much less today. Cancer has taught me a few things, and I don't scare easy.

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The Business of Happiness: A Convocation Address

Lisa Kramer | Posted 08.22.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Business Degree, Graduation, Business School, Convocation, Cancer Survivor, Words of Wisdom, Cancer, Convocation Speech, Canada Business News
Lisa Kramer

Last week I was convocation speaker at the University of Toronto graduation ceremony where business students from the Mississauga campus received their BBA and BComm degrees. These are the remarks I made to the Class of 2012, on the topics of happiness, generosity and the value of kindness.

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What They Should Tell You At Graduation -- But Don't

Wall Street Journal | CHARLES WHEELAN | Posted 04.30.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Graduation, Commencement Speeches, What They Dont Tell You at Graduation, What They Dont Tell You at Graduation Wsj, Canada Living News

Class of 2012, I became sick of commencement speeches at about your age. My first job out of college was writing speeches for the governor of Maine. ...

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