http://twitter.com/#!/TorontoStar/status/525248006501982208 Nathan Cirillo wasn't just a soldier – he was also an animal lover and dog rescuer:
http://t.co/dFtNpf09ui #yeg pic.twitter.com/9qBscOcMec — Global Edmonton (@GlobalEdmonton) October 23, 2014 Face it: posting a photo of your pet to social media isn’t exactly groundbreaking. Twitter users today, though, have started the #TweetAPicOfYourDog hashtag for a special reason: to honor reservist (and […]
Aristotle was one of the greatest thinkers of all time. He even wrote works–Politics, Poetics and Metaphysics–that are still taught today. He wrote on a wide variety of sciences, including cosmology, physics, biology and chemistry. He developed the concept of empirical reality, in which theories are tested based on the evidence of our senses. He […]
People who share their homes with Labradors will tell you that these dogs are absolutely obsessed with food, and they’re right. If anyone is snacking on something in my house, chances are that my Labrador mix is begging with sad eyes and/or drooling directly in front of them. There’s just something about the breed that […]
Former President Barack Obama, described to Oprah by his wife Michelle as “swagalicious,” never missed an opportunity to note how he was surrounded by strong women and a better man for it. It turns out it’s a favorite line, even when he’s not trawling for votes. Speaking in Montreal on Tuesday, Obama returned again to […]
Stray dogs are hit by cars all the time, and if it weren’t for dedicated rescuers, many of them wouldn’t get the help they need. My own rescue pup was hit by a car, shattering both of his front legs. Without the help of a generous veterinarian, he wouldn’t be the jumpy, happy guy he […]
It pays to be careful about how you word things on Twitter, particularly when you’re a progressive advocate trying to drag the country in a direction it doesn’t necessarily want to go;take, for example, the gun control group that inadvertently warned of a homicidal toddler who’d been on a two-year shooting rampage. On Thursday, Nina […]
As a huge fan of documentaries, I have found a recurring theme amongst all of the films I’ve watched. That theme is that they are all horrendously depressing. Most documentaries aim to tackle serious issues and with that comes a lot of weight. Sometimes, I’d like to leave a documentary feeling good. I want to […]
As temperatures have dropped, we’ve learned a lot about how some animals survive the winter. In some locations, people were noticing frozen iguanas falling out of trees. Thinking the lizards were dead, one man even picked some up and put them in his car. As the heat of the car warmed them, the iguanas suddenly […]
