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Flu clinics coming
A full story about the upcoming flu season is going online as I write this and will appear in our print edition next week. Here is the list of public clinics I received from Fraser Health Authority....
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Adoption event in Burnaby
Just spotted this on my twitter feed and thought I’d try to spread the word. There are hundreds and hundreds of kids waiting to be adopted in B.C. Sounds like this event will help provide information...
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Family Ties: On Mother’s Day
My latest Family Ties column appeared in today’s issue of the NOW. Here’s an excerpt and link to the full piece … I have a feeling a few moms out there may know just what I’m talking about! There’s two...
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For all the fishing folk
If you don’t have anything planned yet for Father’s Day, here’s an idea … the annual family fishing weekend, in which Canadian families can fish for free around B.C. for three days. For those who fish...
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Census: Stephen Harper has more to consider than the traditional nuclear family
OTTAWA – As recently as 2006, Canadian liberals worried that a social-conservative tide led by Stephen Harper would sweep the country, taking us back to the era of restricted abortion, capital...
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Incomes for Canada’s middle class stall
OTTAWA — Incomes of Canadian middle-class families have lagged behind some other groups due to modest wage growth, say briefing notes prepared for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, as the Conservative...
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Audit finds ‘gaps’ in military daycare, health services
OTTAWA — Canadian military families may be described as the “strength behind the uniform,” but Defence Department auditors have found significant “gaps” in their ability to access child and health care...
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Time to welcome home the prodigal child
A twentysomething slacker lounges in his parents’ basement, beer in one hand and TV remote in the other. We’ve lost track of how many times we’ve seen this cliché character in television shows and...
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When the first job is the last job
Ryan Pearce’s very first job was also his last. Pearce, 19, loved working with tools and was thrilled to land a gig in construction. Three weeks into the job, the Toronto resident was working in the...
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I once packed 154 disposable diapers on a trip to France. We were travelling with a newborn and a not-quite-toilet-trained two-year-old, and my mother convinced me I’d never, ever find or be able to...
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