Family News Home Archive for April, 2008

Discover a range of activities to satisfy every family member’s interests.Be sure to check back every week for updates. SATURDAY, APRIL 26 An archery workshop at Casa Loma welcomes all Robin Hoods and Maid Marions to join resident archer Sir Shawn Adams to learn the history and techniques involved in archery.PRICE: Children (7+) $30 + [...]

Friends and family of Brampton teen Nadia Kajouji say a body pulled yesterday from the Rideau River is the missing Carleton University student.The girl’s mother, Deborah Chevalier, was called by officials yesterday morning and told a body had been recovered, and that they expected it was Kajouji’s, said the girl’s aunt, Candita Martens-Mills.%26quot;Obviously, [...]

Rowen’s room is just a shovel in the ground away from reality. Donations have poured in to pay for a house addition so the little Oshawa boy with a muscular disorder can live with his family for the first time in his five [...]

A Pennsylvania addiction treatment centre is boosting its presence in Ontario.Caron, a not-for-profit facility based in Wernersville, Pa., has a business development officer in Toronto, and plans to open an office here within two months, said Dr. Susan Blank, vice-president of clinical services. Blank said the site, similar to its satellites in Bermuda and Boca [...]

Jim Mirkopoulos is watching the movie market closely this year. One of the principals of Cinespace, a major rival to the Filmport complex, Mirkopoulos says the family owned company has placed potential expansion plans on hold until they determine where the economy is [...]

Name: Roxana SalehiAge: 30Program: Third-year PhD candidate at York University in faculty of environmental studies.Thesis: Toronto sexual health services and newcomer youth: what does an effective sexual health strategy look like for this group?The project: Salehi is working with groups, such as Planned Parenthood Toronto, on a community-based public health project that surveys immigrant teens [...]

Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian BarnesRandom House Canada,256 pages, $32.95
%26quot;I don’t believe in God but I miss him,%26quot; is Julian Barnes’s contradictory and uncharacteristically twee opener in this wide-ranging essay on death, religion, and family. When he asks his brother Jonathan, a professor of ancient philosophy living in France, what he [...]

The faces on the screen, and the words they speak, are wrenching. Twenty-three years ago this June, these people said goodbye to family members boarding an Air India flight that never reached its destination in London. A bomb planted by Sikh extremists exploded while the aircraft was approaching the coast of Ireland.%26quot;I was able to [...]

WASHINGTON–A chemical used to make baby bottles and other shatterproof plastic containers could be linked to a range of hormonal problems, a preliminary U.S. government report has found. The report was greeted by some environmental groups as confirmation of their concerns, while chemical makers latched on to the report’s preliminary nature and its authors’ [...]

Health Canada is set to release studies on 15 chemicals, including bisphenol A found in baby bottles, placing them on an action list that could lead to an outright ban.The chemicals, which have to meet high-risk criteria to be included on the list, include bisphenol A (BPA), which studies say causes breast cancer, prostate cancer [...]