I was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in 1967 and lived in Walmer and went to school at
Theodor Herzl. In 1980, after the Soweto riots
of 1976, Mom impressed on Dad to leave and we visited Canada in 1979 and then immigrated in 1980 to
join many close friends in Toronto. I was thirteen when we landed among a South African expat community at Bayview
and York Mills in North York and suddenly life was different. It was a second life. Five years after we emigrated, South Africa
exploded in rebellion and a state of emergency.
Today I help run an ISP and develop websites and live with my wife and daughter in Toronto and our companion cat
and dog. Our first, precious Sasha Bella Stein-Blumberg, was born with Alagille
Syndrome and thrived after a first cardiac surgery at three months then suffered massive
complications after a second cardiac surgery in December 2005 at 18 months. We lived at SickKids Hospital for 5 months until
we brought her home with the assistance of the Temmy Latner Centre and she died 5 weeks later died on June 20, 2006 at 24 months.
Please visit our tribute to Sasha's life and death.
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Work
Loh's Ice Cream, The Keg, Camp NAORCA (Eagles counselor),
Blumbergs, Movenpick (waiter),
Temple Emanu-El (teaching assistant),
Project Dare (Growth Programme outdoor recreation instructor),
Camp Coleman (CIT instructor),
WM Company,
Scottish Claymores (store manager),
The Wire (President)
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Education
Theodor Herzl Primary School
St. Andrews JHS
York Mills Collegiate Institute
Leaside High School
U of T - University, Innis and Woodsworth Colleges
Rothberg International School
Centennial College
George Brown College
Leisure
Family walks and friends
Reading: Baroque Trilogy, Failed States, Freakonomics
Sasha Bella's blog and website
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