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School is out, but that doesn’t mean learning should take a break for the summer – especially when studies show learning that takes place outside school has great influence on future academic achievement. The National Center for Family Literacy has created fun lessons to boost learning this summer.
The National Center for Family Literacy has created [...]

Fans of Apache Indian, a.k.a. Steven Kapur, are in for a double treat this weekend when the British Punjabi singer headlines DesiFest with son Kelvin.
Kapur – who burst onto the music scene in 1993 with the hit single “Arranged Marriage” from his album No Reservations – is all grown up, with a 22-year-old son to [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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If you’re looking for a good night’s sleep, don’t work long hours at a high-pressure job. Or commute. Or get married and have kids. Too late? You can take some comfort in the fact that many Canadians are in the same sleepy boat, according to a Statistics Canada report released yesterday.
Findings from the government’s 2005 [...]

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 [...]

By Kevin Drawbaugh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid growing concern about the sluggish student loan market, two U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation to ensure loan availability this summer as young people headed for college lock in their financing.
The bills from Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and California Rep. George Miller, both Democrats, would mandate [...]

DUBAI, April 8 (Reuters) - Dubai family owned Al-Futtaim
Group said it will probably end up paying about 1.5 billion
dirhams ($408.5 million) for Singapore department store operator
Robinson %26amp; Co (RBSS.SI: Quote, Profile, Research).
Al-Futtaim may buy as much as 95 percent of Robinson and
delist the firm from the Singapore exchange, James [...]

(Correcting to remove reference to Lehman Bros PJ (LEH_pj.N: Quote, Profile, Research).
The New York Stock Exchange said on Monday that a member firm
reported incorrect short sale data on the security. Instead of
increasing to 557,152,799 shares held short, short interest in
the security decreased to 609,899 shares as of March 31.)
NEW [...]