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By Nikki Martyn Guest Contributor The early years are the most dynamic time of life, producing more than a million neural connections each second. For parents or caregivers, this time offers a wonderful opportunity to impact children’s lives, allowing children to ...

By Kevin Shafer Guest Contributor When my oldest son, now nearly 13, was born in July of 2008, I thought I could easily balance my career and my desire to be far more engaged at home than my father and his ...

By Jessica Ball and Jessica Pratezina Guest Contributors School and child care closures during the COVID-19 lockdowns have been a crisis for parents with children at home, felt mostly by mothers. In Canadian mother-father partnerships, women continue to take on the majority ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Thursday, June 16, 2022) — Two members of the provincial NDP Black Caucus — MPPs Jill Andrew (Toronto—St. Paul’s) and Laura Mae Lindo (Kitchener Centre) — today, chastised the findings of the Toronto Police Service’s race-based statistics on ...

By Monika Lemke Guest Contributor With the Toronto Police Service’s release of race-based data on strip searches as part of its Race and Identity-based Data Collection Strategy, we can clearly see who it chooses to subject to strip searches. We now ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Friday June 16, 2022) — Toronto Police Service (TPS) Chief, James Ramer, issued an apology, yesterday, to Black, Indigenous and racialized people, who are over-represented in use-of-force incidents and strip searches. Speaking at a news conference at police ...

By Steven Kaszab Guest Contributor The recent news cycle has centered upon issues of inflation, the cost of living, transportation and housing costs. Are we living far beyond our financial capabilities? Are our expectations too demanding? The true inflation levels ...

You found your forever home, but in today’s hot real estate market, you may have decided to buy — without getting an inspection. That means you may face some surprises, once you take possession, from rot to infestation or an ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday, June 15, 2022) — The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is requesting the public’s assistance to locate a missing woman. Tanisha McPherson, 43, was last seen on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, at 10:50 a.m., in the Leslie Street ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Editor TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday, June 15, 2022) — Educator and philanthropist, Kamala-Jean Gopie, says an award from her alma mater, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, is very special for ...