Dr. Carolyn Willekes, Mount Royal University

Admit it. As logical as you might be, as practical as you might like to think yourself, in your heart of hearts, you like to imagine that there is a beautiful gentle animal living in a glade, undisturbed, in the depths of the forest. In the medieval world, a world beset by plague and warfare, when belief in unicorns was at its height, the animal symbolized purity and innocence.

Maybe we need unicorns today.