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Family Holidays have three children. My will and my living trust state that everything goes to them. My son recently told me that he and his wife of eight years are separating. They are not getting a divorce. Is she entitled to half of my son’s inheritance when I pass away? My stocks and money [...]

Canadians are aging and Canadian entrepreneurs are aging even faster. According to the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, over the next 15 years, more than half of the country’s medium-sized business owners are expected to retire. In southern Ontario, it is expected that more than 56 per cent will need to retire in [...]

Parents who heat plastic baby bottles risk feeding their children a synthetic hormone linked with medical, reproductive and developmental problems, according to a University of Missouri study released Thursday.
The chemical bisphenol A is used in making hard, polycarbonate plastic and leaches out of the bottles when heated to 80 degrees or filled with [...]

Is the face of education about to change for good? If a recent announcement from the prime minister is anything to go by, further education colleges as we know them, serving all ages from mid-teens to the grave, could be a thing of the past.Students aged over 19 may soon have their own institutions. The [...]

Ask any governor about coping with change and he or she is likely to give a positive answer. New policies, new standards, new regulations or new targets - we’ve tackled them all over the past few years. Most governors are confident that they can take an idea, digest the paperwork, push it through the committee [...]

Let’s try again. How about the talking cardboard box that says: ‘Life as a box is not all bad. I can go many places’? Or the three-screen video projection in which a clown - another clown! - picks his way through a rainforest as if searching for the source of the Amazon, but is constantly [...]

Stan’s Facebook page looks much like any other thirtysomething man. He enjoys Holby City and snorkelling, has “very liberal” political views and lists “women” as his main interest. But Stan’s interchangeable genitals, ability to become pregnant and the fact that he dies on a regular basis mark him out as no ordinary social networker.Stan is [...]

Delta Air Lines Inc., the third-largest U.S. carrier, is still reviewing options for the company that may include a merger, chief executive officer Richard Anderson told employees Friday.
“The board and our management team are fully committed to ensuring that this is a thorough process, so [...]

Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — On a sweltering day in September 2006,
almost a year before the collapse of the housing market and the
ensuing credit crunch, Paul Singer, the founder of hedge fund firm
Elliott Associates LP, took the podium at a New York financial
conference to [...]

But when the tanks came, I wasn’t there. A week earlier, the Bratislava conference of Warsaw Pact leaders seemed to promise a lull in the crisis. It had been a wild year already for me, covering the Polish crackdown in March, the West German student revolution and the shooting of Rudi Dutschke, the barricades of [...]