Alex Newman

By Alex Newman

Special to the Star

Thu., March 12, 2020

When Cynthia Lovat Fraser became a single mom, she needed to bump up her income to allow her and her children to keep their family home. So she started taking in language students. It helped offset costs, and since s...

FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY PREPARES TO MOVE 

In Trust Magazine, Spring 2019

Winner of Award of Merit, News Story by the Associated Church Press (ACP), the oldest association of professional religion journalists in North America. 

by Alex Newman

There's a small box a...

Each spring I am drawn back to Charleston, South Carolina, my home for five blissful years in the early 1980s. I’ve watched with sadness as marketers, with their brittle clichés, extol the city’s beauty and history, forgetting that women and men have shaped these thing...

“Can you hear that,” asks Joanna Morrison (BMus 89) as she holds the phone away from her ear. Across 13000 km of fibre optic cable comes the distinctive sound of African voices raised in song, as a truckload of pastoral students rumble home after a day of evangelizing.

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March 11, 2011 Alex Newman Special to the Star

Fantasy: Your home is on the cover of a national shelter magazine, a beautiful haven of rest, a palace of fun for family and friends. Even your pets — well behaved and beautifully groomed — love and respect it.

Reality: Two...

Special to National Post Feb 3, 2012 – 10:07 AM ET | Last Updated: Feb 7, 2012 1:34 PM ET

By Alex Newman

We give them birthday presents, sign their names on cards and letters and talk to them over the phone. Pets are such a significant part of Canadian life, we spend upw...

By ALEX NEWMAN

Special to the Star

Thu., March 24, 2011

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For one brief shining moment this past week, it seemed that spring might be here. That few days of warm weather is just enough of a tantalizing promise to whet the appetite for summer. With images of al fresco dinin...

If I were a gambling girl, I’d bet money that each and every one of us has at some time received a gift that totally blew us away. Something that shocked not only because it delighted, but because it demonstrated just how deeply the giver had thought about us.

The best...

By Alex Newman

Cottage Life, June/July 2019

“Small, simple, affordable, beautiful.” That’s what Halifax couple David Black and Heather Scott wanted in a cottage. The busy professionals— she’s a doctor, he’s a professor—purchased 31/2 acres of oceanfront just south of Lu...

Dogs are a growing part of downtown condo living. Builders and city planners are providing paws-itive input

By Alex Newman

Special to the Star

Fri., April 12, 2019​

Until three years ago, Maggi Burtt lived happily in a 450-square-foot bachelor suite with her 70-plus-pound,...