OK kids, fun is over. It’s back to school and back to routines. The season of campfire hotdogs and ice cream cones and water parks is done, more or less.
For moms and dads, that means getting their act together for school lunches.
Your head is a terrible place to store all your family’s important financial information.
How are your spouse and kids supposed to find all your bank and investment accounts and insurance policies if you’re laid up by a serious illness or worse?
Like every Chinese child, Li Hanwei spent her schooldays memorising thousands of the intricate characters that make up the Chinese writing system.
Yet aged just 21 and now a university student in Hong Kong, Li already finds that when she picks up a pen to write, the characters for words as simple as “embarrassed” have slipped from her mind.
Fishermen are all geared up for the largest Fraser River sockeye run in nearly a century, but many say this will not help the struggling industry recover.
To friend or not to friend is the big question facing many parents dealing with teenagers on Facebook.
Three quarters of parents questioned in a Nielsen survey said they are friends with their children on the popular social networking website which boasts 500 million active users. But a third admitted they are worried they are not seeing everything their children are doing on the web.
Aubyn Baker never planned to home-school her daughter, but when tests showed the fifth-grader was gifted and learning-disabled, many of her problems made sense.
Since Grade 3, Taegyn Baker-Riley had struggled with school. She often suffered from headaches, exhaustion and discouragement.
After trying to fix the problem by switching Taegyn from French immersion to English, and then to a different school, Baker was at her wit’s end. It was an offhand comment from Taegyn’s father, Terry Riley, that pushed them to try home-schooling.
Canadians made 2.7 million overnight trips for pleasure to the U.S. between January and March, and spent $2.9 billion during their visits, according to data released Thursday by Statistics Canada.
Thousands of Vancouver Zombie Walk pariticipants gather at the Vancouver Art Gallery to stumble down Robson Street.
When he first moved to Whistler 11 years ago, Mike Wilson was a seasonal resident who would head home to Mississauga, Ont., come summer because the restaurant he worked for closed its doors when the snow melted.
Vancouver has vowed to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. New condos in Toronto are going up without any parking spaces. Regina is doing away with one-way streets to improve public transit access in a revitalized downtown.