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  1. Boys: Do you know where your mothers are?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    Dr. Miriam Garfinkle got tired of being just the mom in the stands. She instigated the uprising from fan to player at her son's house league championship team party.
  2. Celebrating Miriam Garfinkle
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Miriam Garfinkle is my hero.
  3. Community is my family's support system
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
    The teacher, the mother, my community - they are reminders of a world that still struggles to maintain decent values and a basic kindness between human beings.
  4. The doctors who care
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1985
    An article about the Medical Reform Group of Ontario (MRG), a group of progressive doctors who are challenging the medical establishment and who take the position that their profession has a responsibility to be active in all matters which contribute to ill-health, whether or not it is politically popular. MRG members Michael Rachlis, Fran Scott, Debby Copes and Miriam Garfinkle are quoted.
  5. Eulogy for Miriam
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Eulogy for Miriam Garfinkle (24 April 1954 - 15 September 2018) delivered by Ulli Diemer at Memorial gathering for Miriam on October 28, 2018.
  6. Miriam Garfinkle
    Connexipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Miriam Garfinkle was a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
  7. Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
  8. Hockey doc
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    Toronto - To say Dr. Miriam Garfinkle practises in this city has a double meaning. There’s the family practice located in her downtown neighbourhood. But there’s another kind of practice she undertakes with dozens of other women. That’s hockey practice.
  9. Making mid-life changes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    "I'm so much more myself." So says Miriam Garfinkle, a family physician who recently left her busy private practice to work in a community health centre.
  10. Miriam Garfinkle
    Memories, Stories, Photos, Articles, Statements, Interviews, Letters, Actions, Activism, News

    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2018
    This page is dedicated to the memory of Miriam Garfinkle (1954 - 2018). It provides links to Miriam’s articles and interviews, letters; accounts of her activism and organizing; stories from some of the occasions when Miriam’s activities landed her in the news; photo albums; and tributes to Miriam. There is a separate page, Moments with Miriam, on which more 100 people share stories of Miriam.
  11. Miriam Garfinkle Lane
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    Miriam Garfinkle Lane is a laneway in the city of Toronto. The name honours Dr. Miriam Garfinkle (1954-2018), a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
  12. Miriam Garfinkle Social Justice Fund
    Resource Type: Organization
    Published: 2019
    The Miriam Garfinkle Social Justice Fund was established to honour Miriam Garfinkle's lifetime of work for social justice. Its mission is to support projects and initiatives which aim to change the world in large ways and small, with the ultimate goal of building a world based on justice and community where people live in harmony with the planet.
    The Miriam Garfinkle Social Justice Fund prioritizes grassroots initiatives, with special emphasis on projects designed to raise awareness and stimulate organizing and action.
  13. Moments with Miriam
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2018
    This page was created to enable Miriam Garfinkle’s friends, family, and the people whose lives she touched, to share their stories, memories, and photos.
  14. Peace messages are wrapped in quilt
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    Sima Elizabeth Shefrin wanted to do something to contribute to peace in the Middle East. And she wanted to do something that would draw the world's eyes to a just peace for both Arab and Jew.
  15. Progressive doctors condemn opting out
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1982
    An interview with Toronto physicians Miriam Garfinkle and Fred Freedman, members of the Medical Reform Group of Ontario.
  16. Quilt gives peace a chance
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    Now more than ever people need to try to understand one another. That is what Miriam Garfinkle believes in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and why she feels it is even more important for people to come out and view the Middle East Peace Quilt when it comes to North York.
  17. Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    About Zatoun, which brings Plaestinian olive oil to Canada.
  18. Zatoun: Bridge-Builder at a Crucial Time
    What's a nice Jewish girl like me doing selling olive oil from Palestine?

    Resource Type: Article
    Working for Zatoun has been one of the most sustainable activisms that I have ever done.


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