I look around me,breathing in deeplyas I reflect on the totalityof what I see.Before me, a man lays sleepingon a downtown streetthat jumps with a crispfour/four time Hip-Hop beat,bouncing from an upbeat retreat,where folks hang out,chillaxed to the max…

Do parents have to choose between tough love and empathy? What do children really need?Szalavitz and Perry add their voices to Gordon’s and many others who see empathy slipping as the tone of modern culture becomes increasingly harsh. To them, th…

Chris Moore, dean of the faculty of science, sits in the Child Empathy Program lab at the Dalhousie University Life Sciences Centre in Halifax on Friday. Co-author of a study of children’s behaviour, he says kids as young as three can be aware of…

Can you remember back to when you first decided to enter veterinary medicine? For many of us, this profession is a “calling” that began whispering our name way back in our youth. Perhaps you were the type of child who found all the strays i…