From TheStar.com:

Liban Hassan, 11, needed to stand on a special riser to see over the podium as he talked about his "uncle," Ali Sharmarke, who was killed when his car drove over a remote-controlled landmine in Somalia.

"Have you ever imagined being a journalist, reporting from a war zone?" he asked the 500 people gathered Thursday evening in downtown Toronto for the annual International Press Freedom Awards, presented by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.

Several in the crowd actually had reported on wars, but most hadn't.

While most journalists in Toronto work hard and long hours, we don't face the threat of being kidnapped, tortured, imprisoned or, as in Sharmarke's case, murdered for just doing our jobs.