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My child has changed but my love has not
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A Canadian Mortgage Charter, the Home of the Week and more of this week’s top real estate stories
Home of the Week: 6999 Highway 3, Hunt’s Point, NS
cost of living
University campus tours are in full swing. But even parents with RESPs lack an education financial plan
Anita Bruinsma
carrick on money
Parents helping their adult kids with housing costs, Round Two
Rob Carrick
canada
What are parents’ rights groups actually fighting for in schools? And do students want it?
world
Father of suspect charged in July 4th parade shooting in Illinois pleads guilty to misdemeanours linked to gun license
Police officers walk through the crime scene the day after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. July 5, 2022. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
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The class and cultural divides from French immersion
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u.s. politics
Settlement over Trump-era family separations at border seeks to limit future separations for eight years
In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. Texas state police officers separated migrant families along the border with Mexico by detaining fathers on trespassing charges and turning over mothers and children to federal officials, the state Department of Public Safety said Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP, File)
canada
Saskatchewan tables school pronoun bill, invokes notwithstanding clause
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe speaks to the media at the Saskatchewan legislature in Regina, on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu
canada
At Camp Kerry, families who lost loved ones find community and even a bit of joy
canada
Tell us your ‘Thanksgiving firsts’ stories
Group of unrecognizable people toasting with wine during Thanksgiving dinner at dining table.
canada
B.C. court cites Korean filial tradition in payout to parents over son’s death
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has awarded more than $327,000 to the parents of a teenager killed in 2019 for the “likely hypothetical future” care their son would have provided under Korean tradition. Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, June 2, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
canada
Gender Equality Minister says safety of LGBTQ kids is critical amid demands for 'parental rights'
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canada
Debate over pronouns pits parental rights against the rights of children, experts say
Politicians and others who support policies that would require parental permission for teachers to use a student's preferred pronouns at school say they are about including parents in the lives of their children. Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity. Owusu-Akyeeah, in her role as a commissioner for the Ottawa People's Commission on the Convoy Occupation, speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
canada
Library books have faced challenges for decades, but a recent shift has become more organized as a proxy culture war
Anita Brooks Kirkland, Chair of the Canadian School Libraries, at her home in Waterloo on Friday, September 15 2023. Photo by Chloe Ellingson
canada
Man convicted of murdering Alberta girlfriend in 2002 loses appeal
A man found guilty of beating and strangling his girlfriend to death more than two decades ago has failed in an appeal of his conviction before Alberta's top court. A courtroom at the Edmonton Law Courts building, in Edmonton on Friday, June 28, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
opinion
Parental consent for a gender transition is unwise. So is keeping a child’s gender a state secret
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
opinion
Politicians should stop using confusion over trans issues as dog whistle for intolerance
John Ibbitson
world
Nisga’a memorial pole starts its journey home from Scotland’s national museum
Earl Stephens, who has the Nisga'a cultural name Chief Ni'is Joohl, centre left, with Pamela Brown, left and another member of the delegation from the Nisga'a nation pose beside the 11-metre tall memorial pole, during a visit to the National Museum of Scotland, ahead of its return to what is now British Columbia, in Edinburgh, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. Members of a Canadian First Nation held a spiritual ceremony on Monday at a Scottish museum to begin the homeward journey of a totem pole stolen almost a century ago. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP)
personal finance
How parents can start smart money conversations with their university-bound children
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canada
New Brunswick’s child advocate says LGBTQ policy in schools violates Charter rights of kids
New Brunswick's child and youth advocate says changes to the province's policy on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools violate the Charter rights of children. Kelly Lamrock reviews Policy 713 at the Fredericton Convention Centre on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Hina Alam
carrick on money
What to say if your adult kids ask for their inheritance early
Rob Carrick
opinion
New Brunswick’s Policy 713 is not an attack on parents’ rights
Christopher Brittain
report on business
The BoC rate hike, Indigo’s exodus and a clawback of COVID benefits: Must-read business and investing stories
The Bank of Canada building is pictured in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. The Bank's deputy governor Paul Beaudry delivered an economic progress report in Victoria, offering insight into the central bank's decision to raise its key interest rate to 4.75 per cent. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
politics
Amended bill that would extend citizenship rights to some born abroad heads to House
The new Canadian passport is unveiled at an event at the Ottawa International Airport in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. A committee of MPs has approved Citizenship Act changes that allow some born abroad to adopt their Canadian parent's citizenship, despite objections from Conservatives about a lack of due process. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
opinion
Adult kids are spending thousands a year to support parents who didn’t save enough for retirement
Rob Carrick
toronto
Ontario schools expected to welcome police into classroom events, education minister says
A classroom is shown in Toronto, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Ontario students' math scores on standardized tests across three grades have either fallen or are stagnant at low rates. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
canada
Great Reads: Life-and-death decisions about extreme preemies; Struggle to rebuild after B.C. floods; Japan town fights population decline
Kevin Nadarajah with Adiah at their home in Ajax, Ontario in March. Twins Adiah and Adrial Nadarajah were born 126 days early, at 22 weeks and zero days, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto on March 4, 2022. Now one-years-old (corrected to eight months due to extreme prematurity) they both wear a helmet 23-hours of the day to help their skull grow into the correct shape, after five months lying down in the hospital after birth. The two little Canadians now hold the Guinness World Record for the most premature twins to have survived to their first birthday and the lightest twins at birth. March 12, 2023 (Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail)
canada
Lawyer blasts Ottawa for ‘preposterous’ delay in assessing Canadian woman in Syria
Women walk in Roj detention camp in northeast Syria Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. A lawyer working to bring a Quebec woman home from a Syrian prison camp along with her six children says it is "preposterous" that her departure is being held up by the government's failure to complete her security assessment. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Baderkhan Ahmad
canada
Six Canadian children to return from Syrian detention without their mother, advocates say
A general view of Karama camp for internally displaced Syrians, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022 by the village of Atma, Idlib province, Syria. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Omar Albam
opinion
Bless this mess: Why we’ve taken our fear of clutter too far
Mark Pupo
advisor news
What to consider when assets in joint accounts are meant for multiple beneficiaries
Focused young students interns workers making notes listening to old senior aged female manager coach mentor leader teacher talking at group office meeting instructing business work team with laptop
opinion
How to talk to parents about their estate plan
Kate Marples
world
Italian government limits parental rights of gay couples
FILE - Activists demonstrate in favour of rights for gay couples, in Rome on Jan. 23, 2016. Italian opposition politicians and gay right activists on Tuesday decried as a step backward moves by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government to limit recognition of parental rights to the biological parent only in the case of same sex-parents. The city of Milan has been told to stop officially recording both parents in same-sex couples on city registers, the last major city in Italy to do so after a smattering of administrations had briefly embraced the practice of recognizing both parents regardless of sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
canada
Manitoba to have average $10-a-day child care in April, three years ahead of schedule
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at the Gathering Wisdom Forum in Vancouver on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Trudeau is scheduled to make a child care announcement Friday in Winnipeg. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rich Lam
nine to five
I was penalized for not giving enough notice after a last-minute daycare strike. What protections to parents have?
Worried mixed race businesswoman at work