Faces, faces and what better likeness to show you first than that of the late Erich Schwam, who died at 90 in December. He was an Austrian Jew who found refuge as a child from the Nazis during WWII with the people of a tiny village in Southern France. Oh yes, his will contained a gift of some two million Euros to the town in gratitude for their humanity. At the centre, Michala and Ben are among those who have found love during the pandemic. Like many others, they met online and because of isolation rules spent a lot of time getting to know each other that way. Finally, women’s rights protester Loujain Alhathloul has been released from prison in Saudi Arabia. Note the bitter comments to this CBC story about how Canada continues to buy its oil and sell arms to Saudia Arabia. Why do we do it? Because we like Iran less.
