Craig and Marc Kielburger

I expected a sea of wise and weathered faces looking back on 25 years of success, but running beside Rick Hansen I also saw throngs of youngsters looking ahead to the next quarter century.

Stepping off the wheelchair-accessible relay bus to join my childhood hero in the final leg of...

We have a challenge for you. Get a piece of paper and a pen. You have five minutes to write down the names of five Canadians who changed the world. Ready? Go.

Who did you come up with?

There are so many who have made a difference. But we'd...

It's hard to be a blogger when you have to borrow your dad's computer every time you post. It's even harder when your house doesn't have electricity to run the computer eight to 10 hours every day.

Despite the challenges, Doa'a Mheissin has been blogging since she was 11 years...

Dating is an amazing and surprising thing.

OK, sometimes dates themselves are not always so amazing, but the freedom embodied in the idea of dating is really incredible. Yet when you stop to think, it's a freedom that's not universal.

A real moment of perspective about dating occurred recently at...

For one relatively unknown man, Canadian rock band Hedley interrupted their vacation after a gruelling tour to give a special performance in Vancouver. The Barenaked Ladies flew in from New York to join them, stopping their work of scoring a new Broadway show. Rick Hansen broke off celebrations of the...

"At least they killed you in Rwanda," the woman said to us, her voiced laced with bitterness. As she spoke she held up her arms. Where her hands should have been were instead two mutilated stumps.

It was 2003, and we were in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra...

It was a spelling mistake that would cost Faryal Bhatti more than just a grade on her exam.

A member of Pakistan's Christian minority, the 13-year-old girl was responding last September to a test question about a poem praising the Prophet Mohammed. However, when she tried to write the Urdu...

Standing before the massed representatives at the United Nations, Bolivian Ambassador Pablo Solon raised one hand and slowly snapped his fingers -- once, twice, three times. Then he held up one finger. With that quiet gesture, he hammered home his point: Every three and a half seconds, somewhere in the...

Sharadaben bustled around the tent making tea for her visitors.

Outside, the salt flats of Gujarat, India, stretched into the distance. This tent is her family's home for eight months of the year as they pan for salt, their main source of income.

Within just a few minutes, Sharadaben delivered...

A villager approaches the guard in front of Burma's presidential palace and asks to speak with General Than Shwe (the former Burmese military dictator). The guard replies that the general is retired and no longer lives there.

An hour later, the villager returns and asks again to speak with...

There's almost no one better positioned to give the inside scoop on U.S. politics than CNN's star political pundit, Wolf Blitzer.

Blitzer, who has moderated three of the last Republican primary debates, told a gathering of about 40 advertising executives, with us as observers, that the GOP had hoped...

Marc and Craig Kielburger are the co-founders of Free The Children and Me to We, a social enterprise. They are authors of "The World Needs Your Kid: Raising Children Who Care And Contribute," with journalist Shelley Page.

The Internet is packed with parenting tips from celebrities -- from never saying...

Albert Einstein once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

On Friday, February 3, the United Nations declared the famine over in Somalia. All is not well yet. Some nine million people throughout the Horn of Africa...

Marc and Craig Kielburger are the co-founders of Free The Children and Me to We, a social enterprise. They are authors of "The World Needs Your Kid: Raising Children Who Care And Contribute," with journalist Shelley Page.

"They're not so much children as what I like to call 'evolving consumers'."

Marc and Craig Kielburger are the co-founders of Free The Children and Me to We, a social enterprise. They are authors of "The World Needs Your Kid: Raising Children Who Care And Contribute," with journalist Shelley Page.

When does a child become an adult? At puberty? When they get...

The two girls were just standing there staring at the shower room wall, confused and afraid.

It was 1982, and Cindy Blackstock was a university student working at a group home in Prince George, B.C. when the aboriginal girls were brought in. They were sisters: 10 and 12 years...

Wes Prankard knew his parents were up to something. His dad was madly typing away on a laptop, but changed the screen every time Wes tried to sneak a peak. With mischievous grins, his parents said he would be getting an important phone call very soon. When the call came,...

Craig and Marc Kielburger are founders of Free The Children and Me to We, a social enterprise. They are authors of "The World Needs Your Kid: Raising Children Who Care And Contribute," with journalist Shelley Page.

Like hundreds of millions of our fellow North Americans, we spent a not-insignificant part...

How do we measure the depth of a tragedy? When a crisis erupts, a natural disaster like the drought in East Africa or a conflict like Darfur in Sudan, we measure the impact in numbers -- how many refugees, how many dead. Yet there are other impacts that can't be...

Craig and Marc Kielburger are founders of Free The Children and Me to We, a social enterprise. They are authors of "The World Needs Your Kid: Raising Children Who Care And Contribute," with journalist Shelley Page.

Picture Luke Skywalker without Yoda, the Karate Kid without Mr. Miyagi, or...