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Boxing powers punch against Parkinson’s disease

Drawing upon pugilistic techniques, a new exercise class puts on the gloves to help combat symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease.

Rex Moore: Richard—a short story about a man living with Parkinson's disease

Sometimes, things aren't what they seem.

The day the whales didn't come out to play

A miserable family outing in Clayoquot Sound, a lesson learned, and how the loss of a child is like an unfinished work of art.

Rex Moore: The right to keep and bear arms?

No one has the definitive answers for why 24-year-old James Eagan Holmes loaded himself up with a Remington pump-action shotgun, an AR15 assault rifle, and two Glock handguns.

Hockey pools take tenacity

Canadians from coast to coast have been studying the past few weeks. Not for school, not for work, not for self-improvement but for their hockey pools.

Michael J. Fox puts face to Parkinson's

Michael J. Fox has been the face of Parkinson's disease for years now, and the optimism and fervour he brings to his quest to find a cure for the disease have emboldened many of...

Parkinson's controlled: learning to live with electrodes in your head

The day I was told I had young-onset Parkinson's disease, December 7, 1993, was a tough day, a life-changing day, and one I've had to learn to live with.

You're awake and they're drilling your head

"Who's going for takeout?" I wisecrack while lying immobilized, scalp peeled back, brain exposed, after having my head cored like a bowling ball.