Community Veterinary Outreach provides care to pets of homeless While serving Christmas dinner to Toronto’s homeless, veterinarian Michelle Lem had a canine encounter that would eventually lead her to found Community Veterinary Outreach, a NGO that provides veterinary services to pets of vulnerable people across Canada. Back then, Lem was a student at the Ontario Veterinary College, and when she scooped up some turkey, peas, potatoes and stuffing for a dog who had come to the event, she was surprised to see the food go mostly untouched.
“I expected the dogs to be starving and eat the whole plate,” Lem says, “It challenged my perception about the relationship and condition of these animals.” Click here for full text |
University community mourns professor killed in air crash“You must know that where I come from in Africa, death is no finality. I merely transitioned to ancestorhood in the worldview of my people.”
Pius Adesanmi was not speaking of himself when he wrote those words in his book, You’re Not a Country, Africa, but they nevertheless hung poignantly in the air at the festival of his life. They had been spoken by Kagiso Lesego Molope, a graduate student and author who was among many who gathered to celebrate Pius Adesanmi, who died in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in Addis Ababa on March 10, 2019. Click here for full text |
Spencer West encourages students to soarGuru Shikhar is not an especially tall mountain. It is the highest peak in Rajahstan, but it is not famously difficult to climb. Most of its 1,722 metres (5,650 feet) can be scaled via an access road. But for Spencer West, Guru Shikhar’s modest, rounded summit presented a unique challenge: climbers ring a large bell to announce their presence on the rooftop of this dusty desert state in India’s northwest.
That bell is suspended at a height of perhaps five and a half feet, but West stands only two feet, seven inches. Both of his legs were fully amputated as a child, though that’s hardly held him back. Click here for full text |