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College has been a family affair for the Trefethen family of Hampton. Later this month, Tracy, 30, will graduate from Great Bay Community College alongside her mother, Pat, and father, Don. All three will receive a certificate in Digital Design and Animation.
It all started when Don retired from the Army after 30 years in 2006. [...]

The spectacular success of 52-year-old Fiona “Steel Magnolia” Shackleton as Britain’s most celebrated family lawyer — charging her rich and famous clients ￡500 an hour for her services Family Holidays — seems to suggest that you do not need a good or even passable law degree in order to get to the top of some [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Single mom Roz Mogani loves her four kids – and her new breasts.Nursing infants had taken its toll, but a straightforward cosmetic surgery restored her breasts to something close to their original form.The procedure is one component of the so-called mommy job, a custom package of restorative surgeries and treatments that may include liposuction, breast [...]

VANCOUVER – Two of Canada’s major retailers said Tuesday they are pulling plastic water and baby bottles that contain the controversial chemical bisphenol A, in anticipation of Health Canada labelling it a dangerous substance. The Forzani Group Ltd. (TSX: FGL), Canada’s largest sporting goods retailer, and Hudson’s Bay Co., which includes the Bay and [...]

When Boston humorist and author Steve Almond unplugged his Baby Daddy blog last month, he posted a goodbye note saying he and his wife had never planned to post beyond their daughter Josie’s diaper years. But he also cited a few ethical concerns with writing the blog, which ran on the hip parenting site Babble.com.
For [...]

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 [...]