Gideon Forman — with Caroline Schultz and Faisal Moola. Apiculturalists, Ontario lost 58% of its honey bee colonies this winter – more than twice the national average of 25%, and nearly four times the “long term acceptable level of winter ...

Frank Touby — Oct. 8, 2014 and Tank is settling in better. We’re still at our cottage at Lake Erie. He’s still sutured to me at the hip, having lived in a totally male world. But Paulette is slowly making ...

Frank Touby — Oct. 6, 2014 was our first day together outside Tank’s familiar turf of St. Lawrence Neighbourhood. It would be our second night together. It was also the first time he was in for a 90-minute Jeep drive ...

Frank Touby — On Oct. 4 Tank spent his first night with us since our adoption of him earlier in the week. It was the day after Paulette’s birthday and it was as if  Tank had lived here all along. ...

Marty McKendry — This exchange took place in Senate Question Period Oct. 2 as the result of a question on the captivity of whales and dolphins asked by Ottawa resident Caroline McNaught: Hon. Wilfred P. Moore: My question today is for ...

Frank Touby — When Danny Murphy passed away last month, his many local friends were bereft. But most of all, his beloved black Labrador retriever, Tank, was frantic over the loss. Tank was as well known as Danny and had ...

The theme for this year’s Fire Prevention Week is Working Smoke Alarms: Test Yours Every Month! This is a timely theme given that although smoke alarm legislation came into effect in 2006, there are still far too many people dying ...

Gary Null, PhD —         There’s nothing like a glass of cool, clear water to quench one’s thirst. But the next time you or your child reaches for one, you might want to question whether that water ...

Dennis Hanagan – Today, music producer, sound engineer, musician, lyric writer and composer Chris Birkett is a Bathurst Quay resident with a studio on Sherbourne St. near King St. But before he became a Downtown resident, he experienced both rags ...

  On Oct. 2, local animal rights activists, along with U.S.-based nonprofit Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), will hold a 12-hour protest at the Maple Leaf Poultry slaughterhouse to protest the brutalization and killing of animals. The protest is part ...