Lionhearts Inc. is proud to announce it has been named the recipient of the Non-Profit Award at the 2026 Kingston Business Awards, presented by MNP LLP and organized by the Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce. The awards recognize organizations and leaders whose work strengthens the Kingston community through innovation, leadership, and

How grateful are you?   Research has shown that the average person says thank you about six times a day, or nearly 2,200 times per year. As polite Canadians, we often say "thank you" as a basic reflex. In that way, it can sometimes become unconscious - you don't even think about why you're saying it!    Ancient thinkers understood

At Lionhearts, we often speak about service, impact, and community. We measure meals served, agencies helped, and people housed. But behind every number, every box packed, and every delivery made is something far less quantifiable and far more powerful: the human heart.   To modern ears, the heart is mostly symbolic. We associate it with

Isn’t it amazing how it all adds up?   I’m talking about snow, of course.   The Ottawa area, where I’m based, has seen nearly 33 centimetres of snow since the start of winter, and a Kingston-based colleague of mine said, “Farmer’s Almanac called for a cold, dry winter for Eastern Ontario this year. On a totally unrelated note, Farmer’s

Have you ever wondered how bears know when to hibernate? Do they just wake up one crisp fall morning and decide, "I'm going back to sleep - see you in March?"   It turns out their bodies pick up on environmental cues like decreasing day length, colder temperatures, and, most significantly, a shortage of food, which triggers physiological

Author Richie Norton observed that, “Every sunrise begins with new eyes.”   For some of us, we’ve been seeing lots of new sunrises lately as kids transition into back-to-school routines and as the daylight shrinks.   As the seasons begin to shift and we start to think about fall weather, as well as wonderful celebrations like

What does your family name mean?   Depending on your lineage, family names come from many different sources. Medieval Europeans, for instance, adopted surnames based on professions, influencing surnames you’ll hear today like Smith, Skinner, Fletcher, or Baker.   You’ll also see last names based on place of origin – that’s where you

Here's a cool summer fact for you: did you know air conditioning (as we know it today) was originally invented in 1902 to help cool down a printing plant?   It was 23 years later that the technology was first deployed to a non-industrial setting - meaning 2025 marks 100 years of indoor air conditioning (for those of us not employed in