Margaret served the Government of Canada for more than 50 years as a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and as a federal public servant. She retired from the military in 2007 at the rank of colonel, then joined the Department of National Defence to work as a project manager on classified projects including defence cryptographic modernization. She retired in 2025 and is currently self-employed as the CEO of Lofty Aspirations, an art and sewing business.

Retirement has finally rung. I spent 35 years in journalism, including Radio-Canada, CBC, CFCF CTV News, TQS, TVA Montreal, TVA Sherbrooke, CPAC and two and a half years at Canada Post before retirement. I moved recently from the Quebec Townships to Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, to look at the ocean from the living room window while sipping a great glass of wine from my cellar. Enjoying the daily presence of my dear wife of 42 years.

Richard retired in December 2025 after nearly 30 years with Design Inc. in Sydney, Australia. He produced award-winning projects during his time there, including the Chatswood Transport Interchange, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Shellharbour Library and PHIVE Parramatta Square, a dynamic cultural and civic hub that won an International Architecture Award and was highly commended for the prestigious World Green Building Council’s Asia Pacific Leadership Awards.

I would like to contact other TMU graduates living in Madrid.

Rick shared photos taken at an all-day TMU reunion in September 2025. He said it was “jolly good fun.”

Those of us in Fashion ’60 have kept in touch over 65 years, getting together in different parts of the country. Many creative pursuits between us such as weaving, painting, genealogy, figure skating, horticulture and many facets of design. A talented group of golden age gals!

Eemaan Qadri (Media Production ’24) recently graduated from the University of Southern California’s prestigious Master’s Program in Film & Television Production. Following the completion of her graduate studies, the Toronto-based filmmaker will present a special triple-feature screening of her short films Marwa and the Moon, If You Can Catch Me, and Hania’s Home.

The three films explore themes of identity, family, grief, immigration, and belonging through the lens of South Asian women and families. The screening marks the debut of Qadri’s newest films, If You Can Catch Me and Hania’s Home, and showcases her continued commitment to telling culturally specific stories with universal emotional resonance.

In addition to her recent short film work, Qadri is currently developing her first feature-length screenplay as she continues to build her career as a writer and director.

Qadri earned her Bachelor’s degree in Media Production from Toronto Metropolitan University before pursuing her Master’s degree at the University of Southern California, one of the world’s leading film schools.

To mark Jewish Heritage Month in May, author and photographer Marnie Salsky is releasing her book A PEOPLEHOOD | AMIUT YEHUDIT.

The book offers a thoughtful and nuanced exploration of Jewish identity in Toronto, examining how culture, history, faith and personal experience intersect in one of the world’s most diverse cities. Having received her MFA in Documentary Media Studies from TMU with a thesis focus on Jewish identity, Marnie is an expert in this field.

Through photographs, archival imagery, interview excerpts, and fragments from social media and print news, Marnie captures the complexity of Jewish life and how identity is carried, remembered, and lived, while engaging with questions of belonging and the realities of antisemitism. Rather than focusing on policy or ideology, the book offers a visual meditation on the everyday realities of Jewish life, identity and resilience. While rooted in Toronto, its themes extend beyond geography, resonating with Jewish communities globally.

Tamsin McMahon, Journalism ’00, built an award-winning career defined by rigorous reporting and editorial leadership, culminating in a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News in 2024 for her work with Lookout Santa Cruz. A respected journalist and editor, she passed away in March 2026 at the age of 48, leaving a lasting legacy in newsrooms across Canada and the United States.

Aloysius and his colleagues Valérie Ouellet (a TMU journalism instructor), Mike Crawley, Andreas Wesley and Catherine Cullen won Gold in the Data Journalism category at the 2025 Canadian Association of Journalism Awards. They received the honour for their CBC News: Investigative Unit piece, “Canada’s international student spike was blamed on private colleges. Here’s what really happened,” which analyzed data obtained through access to information requests.

Lawrence is co-artistic director at the Canadian Art Song Project (CASP), a performing arts organization based in Toronto. Its mission is to “build on the rich legacy of Canadian song by engaging composers, writers and performers to create new music while providing opportunities for Canadian artists to champion the wealth of existing song literature.” CASP was nominated for a 2025 JUNO Award in the category of Classical Album of the Year (Small Ensemble) for their recording Known to Dreamers: Black Voices in Canadian Art Song. The recording features “The Colour of Joy,” a work CASP commissioned in 2022 by Canadian composer Maria Thompson Corley, with commissioned texts by Toronto writers Christene Browne and Kanika Ambrose for soprano Jonelle Sills.

In 2024, I won a gold National Magazine Award in the Feature Writing category for my story, ‘Books Behind Bars.’ The piece explores the importance of access to information in prisons.