Sydney Page

Toronto

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Education: McGill University, BA; Columbia University, MS in journalism

Sydney Page is a reporter who writes for The Washington Post’s Inspired Life blog, a collection of stories about humanity. She has been a contributor to The Post since 2018, and has written for the Health section and The Lily. Before joining The Post, Sydney was a writer and video producer at CTV National News and an editor at a Canadian news startup called the Bullet.
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Her dad died. So her favorite NFL star took her to the father-daughter dance.

Philadelphia Eagles player Anthony Harris flew across the country to escort his 11-year-old fan to the dance.

February 10, 2022

A rabbi decided to sponsor an Afghan refugee family. When he needed a hand, he brought in a mosque and a church.

Rabbi Adam Raskin said he wanted to show the refugee family "what kind of country they’ve relocated to.”

February 9, 2022

Crossing guard was hit by a car as she shoved a student out of the way: ‘You got to protect that child.’

Cpl. Annette Goodyear says she’s ready to go back to work tomorrow.

February 7, 2022

A stranger bought this Broadway star a ticket years ago when he couldn’t afford it. They just reunited.

Claybourne Elder wrote in an Instagram post: “If you know this guy — let me know. I would love to thank him.”

February 7, 2022

His coach became his foster dad. Decades later, the man who took him in coached his 4 daughters.

February 3, 2022

New Mexico governor just signed on as a substitute teacher amid steep staff shortages

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham plans to start substituting in an elementary school Wednesday morning.

January 26, 2022

A message in a bottle that traveled 3,200 miles helped heal a Maryland boy’s grief

The bottle surfacing in Ireland was a salve for Sasha Yonyak, 14, whose friend died two years after they had tossed it off the side of a fishing boat in Ocean City, Md.

January 24, 2022

Developers pleaded to buy his island for years. He said no, and in a final rebuff, he gave it to a conservancy.

“You think you’re going to destroy my island with that stupidity?” Thor Vikström recalled responding to the developers, who opened their bid decades ago at $500,000.

January 20, 2022

For years, bar patrons bought beers for Betty White hoping she’d come claim them. The funds are now going to animal charity.

Monday would have been White’s 100th birthday.

January 17, 2022

This man was at the end of his life. Strangers stepped up to take him on bucket-list adventures.

“It blew our minds,” Patrick Mitchell’s daughter said. “I was so overwhelmed by people’s generosity.”

January 13, 2022