Fine artist Paul Richmond, co-founder of the art-as-therapy anti-bullying You Will Rise Project, identified with Michael Morones, the 11-year-old fan of TV cartoon My Little Pony who in January...
What good can come from a dangerous binge drinking game? The popularity of Neknominations, where people post videos with them chugging large amounts of alcohol on social media and daring friends to...
When floods hit southern Alberta in June 2013, forcing more than 100,000 people from their homes, Calgary country singer Jason Hastie’s 1,200 square-foot bungalow survived the downpour...
Are your grandparents or elderly parents online? Do they know how to send emails and attach photos? Do they need helping surfing the ‘net? Do they even know what that means? Toronto...
Every holiday season for nine straight years Andy Kim has called up his closest musician friends and those he admires, from Rush’s Alex Lifeson to Sam Roberts, to join him at his Andy Kim ...
Friends of Scott Jones, a Nova Scotia music teacher and activist who was the victim of a stabbing attack during Thanksgiving weekend, are coming together to raise money to help him on a long...
When Rhode Island teen Nicholas Lowinger first visited a homeless shelter as a child of five, he noticed how few of the kids had shoes that fit well or even had shoes at all. Now 15, the...
Much has been made about embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford spending time signing bobbleheads of himself, but the proceeds do go to charity. One week after he admitted to smoking crack cocaine,...
Three moustache-wearing friends have been riding their mountain bikes across Canada for Movember and freezing rain in the Prairies stopped them. Despite crosswinds blustering at 35km an hour, 26-year...
Holocaust survivor Franka Kon and the inspiration behind the Yellow Rose Project had been waiting her whole life to attend her senior prom. That celebration finally came one evening in June 2011 in...