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As the presidential campaign debate over health care intensified, I heard from seven different friends with the same problem: They had loved ones who had recently moved and, like many others across the U.S., could not find a primary care doctor. Three were in Washington where, according to 2006 data from the Department of Health, [...]

We have finally broken free from the corsets of Victorian parenting.  According to a new survey we now put our kids first on holidays – no more ‘seen and not heard’!  In possibly the largest survey of its type, over 7000 UK mothers bared their soul on travelling as a family, letting children have cake [...]

A Christchurch family are devastated their 20-year-old cat was handed to the SPCA and killed before they had a chance to save it.
The Clarke family of Halswell had Krumpet for 20 years.
Last Tuesday, father Gwyn Clarke was shocked to come home from work and find a note in his letterbox saying their female ginger cat [...]

Take four Italian brothers raised in the restaurant business, home-cooked Italian recipes, four busy locations in Orlando and what is the end result? Giovanni’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria with locations in Oviedo, Winter Park, Lake Mary and Orlando.
Brothers Krist, Jozef, Michael and Frank Nikollaj collectively run the area restaurants along with the start of the [...]

The row has developed around a 20-tonne sculpture, The Lion of Scotland, by Edinburgh-based Ronald Rae. A small, vociferous group of MSPs wants to see it sited permanently outside the parliament building. Calvocoressi believes the lion does not match the quality of the art already in the Parliament, and would be better suited to cheering [...]

Finally I can sense that spring is truly arriving and I can celebrate having “lived” through an Ontario winter after spending 18 years on the west coast. Of course, with the warmer weather and the beautiful sunshine, the urge to get the barbecue out and invite the family over for an old-fashioned intergenerational gathering is [...]

Montreal producer Martin Bolduc was in Las Vegas in June 2006 when got a phone call from Paul McCartney’s publicist, telling him the former Beatle was available for an interview.
It was an opportunity that Bolduc and Montreal director Adrian Wills had been praying for during the shooting of “All Together Now,” a documentary on the [...]

Premier Dalton McGuinty said Friday he can’t promise that nurses won’t lose their jobs as hospitals struggle to balance their books, but he tried to soothe their concerns with assurances that more nurses will be hired over the next few years.
“I can’t guarantee that no Ontario hospital will ever take it upon itself to lay [...]

Q-My partner of two years has been going through emotional turmoil for six months. He deals with his emotions differently from me - he isolates himself. I prefer talking about my problems and having him offer support (which he’s great at).
However, when we’re both stressed, I reach out for his support, and he retreats. He [...]

It’s hard to put a handle on Debra House, she has done so many things not only for herself, but for the community, whether it be Stirling or Belleville.
But there is one constant - the 55-year-old successful businesswoman has always worked at jobs where she was in control. It has characterized her life, except for [...]