Letting kids roam: What’s allowed, where, and at what ageLeaving kids unsupervised is a legal grey area. But in some places—like airplane cabins and the parking lots of Quebec—the rules are hard and fast
The technology trap: Should you give your kid a smartphone?Parents are turning to devices to keep tabs on their children, affording the youngsters much-needed independence. Do the benefits outweigh the risks?
How well does Facebook think it knows you?In light of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, users talk about how their feelings towards sharing their data online have shifted, or not.
Your helicopter parenting means you’re privilegedFor some moms and dads, hovering is just not an option. Why are their peers so quick to judge them?
The winner of Canada Reads says Japanese internment haunts us stillMark Sakamoto says his grandparents’ forgiveness of the wrongs done to them in the Second World War helped him overcome the struggles in his own life
58 years later, Drew Kivell still hopes to solve his father’s murderA 1960 double homicide shocked the small town of East Gwillimbury, but the killer was never found. Family members still keep the search going.
The next sexual revolution will happen in a lab, not a bedCouples will soon choose their future kids from 100 clinic-created embryos, writes Henry Greely
The neverending war for Canada’s Food GuideIt’s been 10 years since the last revision, and it took two years and 20,000 submissions to overhaul it. And almost nobody will agree with the result.
The most autism-friendly town in CanadaHow two women transformed their tiny Newfoundland community from a zero-resources town to the best place in the country to raise kids on the spectrum
The excruciating loneliness of being a new mother’After I had my first son, I didn’t just feel different; it was like a grenade had been detonated, deep in the command centre of my life’