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News flash: Canadian teens actually like their parents
May 21, 2009 – 1:05 pm | No Comment
News flash: Canadian teens actually like their parents

Moving to Canada with teenagers? Then you’ll want to read this post from the New York Times’ Motherlode blog:

Good news for par­ents. Your teenagers like you!

Or, they do if you live in Canada

Happy Victoria Day
May 18, 2009 – 8:51 am | No Comment
Happy Victoria Day

Today is a hol­i­day in Canada — Victoria Day.

Nowadays, as Canadians head to their vaca­tion cot­tages, pic­nic on the beach, or fire up the back­yard bar­be­cues, the hol­i­day is more about the start

Why does ketchup taste different in Canada?
May 13, 2009 – 9:03 am | No Comment
Why does ketchup taste different in Canada?

Last week, we reported on the Great Canadian Heinz Ketchup Cake, a PR cre­ation dreamed up in honor of Heinz Canada’s 100th birthday.

But the impor­tant ketchup ques­tion for many Americans who relo­cate to Canada …

The Canadian donut diet?
May 6, 2009 – 8:00 am | No Comment
The Canadian donut diet?

Is the typ­i­cal American diet — heavy in fat, sugar, and salt — the same on the Canadian side of the border?

According to a new book by Dr. David A. Kessler, for­mer Commissioner of …

A Canadian perspective on legal same-​​sex marriage
May 4, 2009 – 8:34 am | No Comment
A Canadian perspective on legal same-​​sex marriage

Over at the Confabulous blog, writer Sabine Hikel offers up an inter­est­ing per­spec­tive on liv­ing in a coun­try where same-​​​​sex mar­riage is legal.

Same-​​​​sex mar­riage has been legal across Canada since 2005, and Hikel …