Like every worthy leader, 2019’s Horse Canada Heroes of the Horse Award winner Mike Grenier stresses the award belongs to his entire team, not him alone. Mike is executive director of A Horse Tale (Une Histoire de Chevaux), a volunteer-run, registered non-profit charity dedicated to rescuing and rehoming equines in need. Unadoptable horses are provided...

Horses face enormous changes over their lives and Andrea Harrison is filled with admiration and gratitude for the way they accept it.

Anne Wood is the type of woman who radiates warmth, with a beaming smile and kind nature. Her enthusiasm is contagious, and her willingness to take on new challenges is positively inspiring. To meet her, you’d never realize the loss and obstacles she’s overcome or the heartache she’s experienced, and when she shares her story,...

Whenever I start working with new clients, one of my first tasks is to help them identify their strengths as horsemen, as well as the areas they most need to work on. I usually start this process by trying to get a sense of what is going on inside a person when they interact with...

A friend recently sent me a short video clip of their horse engaged with another as they nibbled on each other’s withers (“allogrooming” in equine-science speak). Although the clip took me immediately to my feel-good place, I was struck that what made this moment so video-worthy was how rarely we see it in our modern...

For being only 14 years old, Slickster has had a lot of careers – racehorse, track pony and an ambassador for the Thoroughbred breed. For the majority of it, Slick, as he’s known, has been right alongside his owner Justine Bourque. Justine, now 27, met Slickster in 2012 when she was grooming at Vancouver’s Hastings...

Many of us who own horses joke about buying or adopting more and becoming “that crazy horse person,” who has their own herd. In fact, there is a whole meme culture on this topic online. For a select few of the population, however, owning large numbers of animals is no joke. When individuals collect more...

Dr. Kathleen MacMillan of the Atlantic Veterinary College believes that when it comes to colic, there is really only one truth that stands across the board: call the vet. “I think that the average horse owner has some baseline knowledge of colic, but not all have experienced it in their own horse,” she said. “The...