It’s hard to hang around a coffee shop or a party in this town and not hear about one of two things: jobs and real estate. The same may be said across Canada, but I’m not sure there’s as much of a focus on those two sectors as there is…

...or Chanukah. After all, why wouldn’t you spell the same holiday two different ways?

About four years ago Rula Labak like many others in Syria's Capital City of Damascus was trying to make it through another day in her now war torn country alive. She was the director of a day care looking after children between the ages of three and five. The 42-year-old…