Christian Borys spent five years as a foreign correspondent in Kyiv. When Russia attacked Ukraine, he started a viral Instagram fundraiser
"Our volunteers are risking their lives doing this work—there are bombs and Russian missiles falling all over Ukraine right now"
"My mother called every day, begging me to come back to Canada, but I didn’t want to believe that the Russians would actually invade"
"Performing Mozart's Requiem turned into a way for me to console the pain that I hadn’t fully come to terms with"
Norman Barwin, a respected fertility doctor, helped my mother get pregnant with donated sperm. Decades later, we discovered that he was secretly inseminating patients with sperm he had no right to use, including his own
"I use all my antiques, no matter how precious they are, because that’s what they’re for"
"Everyone I encounter seems to be fuelled by anger and high anxiety"
Life on campus is utterly unpredictable. True tales from Queen's, Western, McMaster and more
Memoirs from the weirdest university year ever
Memoirs from the weirdest university year ever
Memoirs from the weirdest university year ever
"I realized I wanted to live my life in a way that reflected how important my mother had been to me"