Aug 12, 2021 | Blog, Stories that Empower, Stories that Enrich
I hope you’ve had a great summer! To help you wind things down, this month’s blog is all about one of the most important people in your life – that you have probably never even heard of before. Way back in August of 1927, a young lad named Harry was...
Jul 3, 2021 | Blog, Stories that Inspire
Around this time last year, I handed over our blog to our Director of Operations, Sarah Morkin, who wrote of her grandmother, an opera singer who was helped tremendously by her community during hard times. It quickly became one of our most popular features ever....
Jun 9, 2021 | Blog, Stories that Inspire
In the last couple of months, we’ve been working on a number of complex planning cases where the topic of starting a new charity has come up. The question is, if you are going to have a charity offspring as cute as these Canada Geese goslings I saw a couple of...
May 4, 2021 | Blog, Stories that Amplify
This month, I’m going to talk about how I’ve spent the last year working on a very special, and geeky project that will be part of my own legacy. Every April, a mass migration occurs across Canada, where flights of strange creatures lift off from all parts...
Apr 13, 2021 | Blog, Stories that Inspire
Normally we tell the story of a person, but this month I thought we’d change it up and tell you the story of a building instead – one that Quiet Legacy happens to inhabit. I hope you will enjoy the story of this fascinating character, and its rebirth as...
Mar 4, 2021 | Blog, Stories that Amplify
Everyone once in a while I run into a story about someone I haven’t met that just resonates with my inner nerd in a way I can’t describe. This month, I’d like to share with you one such story about a young man who grew up to turn his childhood...
Feb 2, 2021 | Blog, Stories that Empower
New Year’s Eve is my wife Bridget’s birthday, and with it, we always look forward to meeting with dear friends, and, if we are at home, enjoying an incredible Cantonese dinner from our all-time favourite restaurant here in London, Kambie. This New Year’s was...
Dec 15, 2020 | Blog, Stories that Inspire
We are all feeling a little bit like this fellow after the longest year of our lives. Thanks for taking the time to read our newsletter, and we hope that you and your families have a much less adventurous and stressful year next year. We’ve spent the last few weeks...
Nov 3, 2020 | Blog, Stories that Amplify
This month, I’m delighted to share with you a unique charitable gift by my friend David (pictured above in his favourite pastime of birding) that reads like a textbook of how to make a fantastic and impactful charity gift. David is well known in the charitable...
Oct 7, 2020 | Stories that Amplify
I have a confession to make to all of you, my faithful readers, and it’s a deeply personal one… I’m a lifetime chronic saver… but now, for the first time in my life, I’ve gone three whole years without making an RRSP contribution! It’s slowly killing...