children

You may wonder how children’s MITTENS are making my life more difficult. If you’re a mother, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

What woman doesn't love being reminded by a snack food ad that being thin is the ultimate female achievement? In their new and insultingly offensive ad campaign, Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps is betting the house on the fact that we're all just dying to be skinny, with slogans like "you can never be too thin" (it turns out you can). Now, in response to the naturally outraged cries of women stoked on their non-skinny bodies, the company has launched a website reminding everyone to "Lighten up, it's a pretzel ad." Hot tip for Snack Factory's marketing team: try not to make your target demographic hate you.

Thousands of Canadian children are available for adoption, but negative public perception and a patchwork child-welfare system make it difficult to place them in loving homes. Meet Aleisha Deece-Cassidy, one of the rare kids who found a "forever family"

Every year, hundreds of frightened children from the developing world arrive alone in Canadian airports. Some are sent by desperate parents hoping to spare them poverty or violence. Others have been sold to human traffickers. Who's protecting these fragile refugees?

Simple things you can do to make a difference in the life of a child