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Ever been relaxing quietly in your bed, not a care in the world, until you are violently thrown from your bed because a car smashed into your home? Me neither. But is can happen. Just ask Joseph VanDeven or Orillia, Ontario, Canada. He was doing just that – reading...
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It’s an award winning program in Canadian elementary schools that is teaching students how to be more empathetic and it uses babies as teachers. Called Roots of Empathy, grade 6 students get a half-hour lesson once a month with an infant. Throughout the year the baby and mom visit...
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Students at Mother Theresa Secondary School in London, Ontario are getting more than smiling faces in their yearbook. Besides memories of student sports teams and dances is the picture of the student who flashed his wee wee and got away with it. While the photographer was taking a picture...
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Trying a rather unique approach to his crime of choice, a door to door drug dealer has been caught by police. The 43-year old was trying his rather innovative, yet risky, technique in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Carrying a wide variety of prescription drugs such as OxyCodone and Valium,...
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Canadian design company, Naked & Famous Denim, have done it again. Broken down the walls of conventional jean making by creating the world’s heaviest pair of jeans. A pair of jeans so heavy they can indeed stand on their own. Taking two years to create, the 32oz selvedge denim...
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The census comes, you fill it out, the government files its report and usually that’s that. But for one small village in Canada that was not the case. Residents of Atwater, Saskatchewan are bemused and bewildered after the latest report came out stating their small community of 34 people...
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They sound like a figment from the imagination of a bachelor who hates to do laundry but they are real and are already a big hit in Canada, the home of the company who makes them. Scratch and sniff jeans from Naked and Famous Denim do indeed smell when...
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When Canadian man Allister MacPherson died suddenly in his bathroom on September 28, 2011, he didn’t have the foresight to turn off the water faucet he had been using at the time. Perhaps dying took precedent over the menial task of stopping the flow of water. However, the Port...
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If you’ve ever doubted that fast food is full of so many preservatives that it never rots then look at the picture above very carefully. This is the face of a one-year old cheeseburger from McDonald’s. Canadian Melanie Hesketh keeps it on her kitchen counter to dissuade her children,...
It’s an award winning program in Canadian elementary schools that is teaching students how to be more empathetic and it uses babies as teachers. Called Roots of Empathy, grade 6 students get a half-hour lesson once a month with an infant. Throughout the year the baby and mom visit...
Trying a rather unique approach to his crime of choice, a door to door drug dealer has been caught by police. The 43-year old was trying his rather innovative, yet risky, technique in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. Carrying a wide variety of prescription drugs such as OxyCodone and Valium,...
Canadian design company, Naked & Famous Denim, have done it again. Broken down the walls of conventional jean making by creating the world’s heaviest pair of jeans. A pair of jeans so heavy they can indeed stand on their own. Taking two years to create, the 32oz selvedge denim...
The census comes, you fill it out, the government files its report and usually that’s that. But for one small village in Canada that was not the case. Residents of Atwater, Saskatchewan are bemused and bewildered after the latest report came out stating their small community of 34 people...
They sound like a figment from the imagination of a bachelor who hates to do laundry but they are real and are already a big hit in Canada, the home of the company who makes them. Scratch and sniff jeans from Naked and Famous Denim do indeed smell when...
When Canadian man Allister MacPherson died suddenly in his bathroom on September 28, 2011, he didn’t have the foresight to turn off the water faucet he had been using at the time. Perhaps dying took precedent over the menial task of stopping the flow of water. However, the Port...
If you’ve ever doubted that fast food is full of so many preservatives that it never rots then look at the picture above very carefully. This is the face of a one-year old cheeseburger from McDonald’s. Canadian Melanie Hesketh keeps it on her kitchen counter to dissuade her children,...