From Chelsea Handler’s “Free the Nipple” post, to a body-positive girl’s underwear-clad selfie, Instagram’s community guidelines have been constantly under fire. Just recently, another photo has joined the fray: This photo by Rupi Kaur, a Toronto-based poet, was taken down by…
This is Chester, a six-year-old rescue dog. He may look like your average, run-of-the-mill Pit Bull mix, but he has a heartbreaking story. This poor pooch had waited in vain for five long years for a family to take him home. The North Fork…
This was Roxy the cat’s face when she first discovered the uninvited guest: “dis hooman… is here to stay? …” Thankfully, the shock factor wore off after a few days, and Roxy decided the new arrival wasn’t so bad after all.
Although the art scene normally revels in the unusual and the extraordinary, it takes a unique kind of creativity to take something run-of-the-mill and mold it into something beautiful. Such is the work of Elspeth McLean, an award winning Australian artist whose innate love…
Last December, photographer Osman Sağırlı pointed his telephoto lens towards a little Syrian girl and took a picture. Her reaction to this simple gesture — which was to raise her arms in submission — confused Sağırlı at first. When he looked closely at…
1. Your parents are — how do you say this — “broken in”. By the time you came along, your older brother may have already dented the family van, or your older sister could have already come home with a C- on…
The Creature Teachers are a ‘mobile animal encounter business’ who want different, interesting creatures to be accessible to the elderly. Since they started four years ago, they have visited 90 retirement homes — and have no plans of stopping any time soon.…
Margarita Suárez was known as a lover of animals in her area of Merida, Mexico — she fed the stray dogs and more than 20 stray cats that gathered at her door every morning. When she passed away, her family received the shock of a…
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1. The Marshall Amp Fridge, $399.99. You’re not a rock star until you have one of these. 2. Electric S’Mores Maker, $49.95. Because who doesn’t want s’mores? 3. 3D Latte Art Gun, $47.99. Take your coffee to the next level…
Odin Camus, from Peterborough, Ontario, was turning 13 without a party to mark the celebration. That’s because of the 15 people that his mother, Melissa Camus, invited to what was supposed to be a fun afternoon for Odin, none of…
1. She will be really smart about finances. The traveller knows that to fuel her wanderlust, she needs to be smart about her purchases. You won’t catch her partying at a one-night Avicii concert, or shelling her hard-earned money on a $1,200 Prada…
1. Have you ever come across people who actually say Illinois is beautiful? Rock Island, Illinois 2. They’re probably mentally deficient, because look at this place. Starved Rock State Park, Illinois River 3. I mean, look at it. Cypress Gardens, Cache…
1. These XXL and XXS friends. 2. This beary curious pup. 3. This confused little squirt. 4. This Dr. Pupper. 5. This 7-Pup. 6. This morning person. 7. This tiny puppy fighting a shoe. 8. This little cutie holding his own…
Even before the age of miniskirts, it has always been deemed acceptable to regard a woman’s hemline as being indicative of her ‘quality’. To this day, the mentality that women’s clothes make them less or more deserving of harassment is still…
It has been four years since the well-documented Fukushima disaster wrecked havoc in Japan and led to one of the most severe nuclear meltdowns in history, when the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant started leaking radioactive materials. The threat of radiation exposure prompted Japanese officials to hastily…