Family News Home Archive for April, 2008

Earth Day is a great opportunity to get outside and enjoy some Earth Day events, or muck about greening your own patch of earth. Plant a tree or some flowers, put up a bird feeder, or set up your own backyard compost. Kids love to get dirty, and you’ll all feel good knowing you’re doing [...]

Nancy Sampson peered nervously into the camera and described the terror of having a 15-year-old addicted to street drugs.%26quot;I spent a year while waiting to find treatment for my daughter, waiting for a call that she was dead in a dumpster,%26quot; she told a news conference yesterday.Dona Eull-Schultz clutched a framed baby picture of her [...]

The family of a Chinese Canadian businessman detained in China is pleading with the federal government to intervene on his behalf and bring him home.Jimmy Chen Yian Yuan, 52, has been held for 18 months in a detention centre in Zhuang Zhou, in China’s Fujian province, on charges of fraud. His lawyers and family say [...]

Megan’s parents were puttering at home on a frigid February evening when they got the call. They were told to come immediately and pick up their 16-year-old. She had been caught stealing cash from the store where she worked part-time. Police were involved. It had been clear Megan was lurching out of control. Once [...]

This year’s Luminato festival will have increased participation for families, students and community groups through a series of arts-based outreach programs.Through partnerships with the Toronto Public Library, Ontario Science Centre, Harbourfront Centre, Pathways to Education, Manifesto, Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre, [...]

Fifteen years ago, you almost couldn’t give a condo away. Now some people line up overnight to buy them. Partly that’s because of a housing market so hot that getting your foot in the proverbial door no longer means a derelict semi, but a pint-sized condo. But another reason is the condo lifestyle, which [...]

He works on a show called Brothers %26amp; Sisters, but it probably should be called Husbands %26amp; Wives or simply Family. In any case, Ken Olin is happy to be back at work.The former thirtysomething star is executive producer of the second-year drama, which returns from its strike-imposed hiatus with four new episodes starting Sunday [...]

It’s true. Your kids might be the death of you. At least they are robbing you of sleep – 17 minutes a night if you have one child, 25 minutes a night if you have two or more – according to a report yesterday in StatsCan’s Canadian Social Trends.Lack of sleep is associated with increased [...]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA.%26ndash;Glomerulonephritis is a kidney disease, the severest form of which can result in dialysis and/or an organ transplant. It’s supposed to be very rare, although, that’s hardly the case for David Eckstein’s family.Doctors told us they’d never heard of even [...]

We hear occasional reports of declining sperm counts in certain parts of the world, warnings that fish downstream of major pollution sites have reproductive abnormalities and, most recently, that the chemical bisphenol A may be linked to fertility problems in animal studies. So if a guy has in mind that he wants to start [...]