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Slayer Guitarist Killed By Spider Bite

CBC | Posted 05.03.2013 | Canada Music

Guitarist Jeff Hanneman, a founder of the U.S. heavy-metal band Slayer, has died at age 49 of liver failure after battling complications reportedly li...

A Sad Goodbye to Toronto's King of Smoked Meat

Bernie Farber | Posted 03.21.2013 | Canada
Bernie Farber

Wolfie Zimmerman, the little known king of the Toronto smoked meat sandwich passed away a couple of weeks ago. I will miss him. Very few deli owners...

Why We Follow the Dead on Twitter

Jesse Miller | Posted 01.13.2013 | Canada
Jesse Miller

When a person passes away, their social media presence lives on. We see this every day with each passing, especially when the nature of death is interesting enough for media to seek the Facebook profile or Twitter account to source photos or posts for the corresponding story.

Peter Lewin: The Canadian Indiana Jones

Bernie Farber | Posted 08.15.2012 | Canada
Bernie Farber

On June 7, 2005, Peter Lewin, a little known doctor and scientist, died all-too-young.Though a pediatrician by trade, he was a pioneer in the field of paleopathology, a field that employs modern medical investigative techniques to unlock secrets within human remains. A pediatrician trusted by his patients, few knew that this kind and genteel man with an old world charm hid an Indiana Jones persona...