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Quebec Speaks Out
The eight L’Arche communities of Quebec responded together to an official report to the Minister of Health and Social Services, proposing early screening for Down Syndrome. (See previous article)
L’Arche Greater Vancouver receives the Non Profit Organization of the Year
We are delighted to announce that L’Arche Greater Vancouver received on November  6th the Non Profit Organization of the Year by the City of Burnaby and the Burnaby Board of Trade.
Solidarity
L'Arche Haiti : A Reporter-Photographer's Chronicle
 Images of L'Arche
L'Arche viewed through the eyes of artists and photographers
 A Human Future
Restorative Justice, an Interview with Danny Graham
 
Jean Vanier

Acclaimed as “a Canadian who inspires the world” (Maclean's Magazine) and a “nation builder” (The Globe and Mail), Jean Vanier is the founder of the international movement of L'Arche communities, where people who have developmental disabilities and the friends who assist them create homes and share life together.

Letters to Communities
Letter from Kenya - May 2008
  Dear friends, Here I am in Kenya. You may well ask, “Why has my pilgrimage brought me to this African country which went through a lot of turmoil recently”? Well, it’s a long story! For me it began in Bangalore when I gave a retreat in October 2006. At this retreat there was a young Italian priest named Father Gabriele. Here is his story. He is a parish priest in the diocese...
 
Publications
Our Life Together
(Hardcover; HarperCollins, 2007; Pp565) From the respected humanitarian and internationally bestselling author of Becoming Human, an inspiring life told through the letters that turned a...
News
Is any war a just war? Vanier answers Globe journalist Ian Brown
The exchange of reflective letters continues between Globe and Mail writer Ian Brown and Jean Vanier.
Daily thought
Impatience
We are all so impatient. We want everything and we want it now! We want happiness, fulfilment and life. It is normal to want such things. But we have to learn to respect the rhythm of our being....
 
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3D Dialogue: Jean Vanier and L'Arche
Jean Vanier: Our Need to Belong...
Jean Vanier : A Man and his Vision
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L'Arche Canada - 2010