May 2014
Health
May 30 2014
Clara's Big Ride
Clara Hughes has earned six Olympic medals. She competed fiercely in five Olympic Games. But the fearless Canadian was depressed for two years before she told someone. She was afraid to admit it.
She’s not afraid anymore.
Clara is sharing her story in every province…
Animals
May 23 2014
A Whale of a Job
On March 24, planes spotted the bodies of nine blue whales. They were crushed in the ice off the coast of Newfoundland. Two weeks later, two of the whales washed up in Trout River and Rocky Harbour.
The tiny Newfoundland fishing villages faced a huge dilemma. What do...
Art
May 15 2014
Farley Mowat Puts Down His Pen
On May 6, author Farley Mowat passed away. Canada lost a master storyteller that day. And Mother Nature lost a devoted friend. Farley Mowat devoted his life to writing about nature. He said it was “the only subject I really wanted to write…
Technology
May 09 2014
A Year Without Technology
Do your parents tell stories that begin, “When I was a kid…”? Blair McMillan and Morgan Patey skipped telling their kids the stories. They showed them instead. The Ontario family took a virtual time machine to the year 1986. For one whole year, they traded…
Technology
May 02 2014
Happy Birthday, World Wide Web!
Twenty-five years ago, the world got a new tool. It changed the way we learn and shop and communicate.
It’s the World Wide Web.
Imagine a world without the Web. A time before Google and Facebook. Before YouTube and iTunes. A time before websites and…