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Canada’s top 25 family-friendly employers
December 7, 2009 – 8:20 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Canada’s top 25 family-friendly employers

Want to know the best places in Canada for parents to work?

Check out the list of Canada’s top 25 family-friendly employers in the December 2009 issue of Today’s Parent.

The list includes educational institutions

Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day?
November 27, 2009 – 6:00 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day?

If you’re living in Canada, you can avoid today’s shopping craziness, which in the U.S. is known as “Black Friday” — the day-after-Thanksgiving, start-of-the-Christmas-shopping-season, mega-sale shopping day.

Here in Canada, it’s just a regular work day.…

American Thanksgiving: Do you miss it?
November 25, 2009 – 7:35 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
American Thanksgiving: Do you miss it?

As an American who has lived in Canada for several years, I don’t find myself missing that much about the U.S.

I do miss my family and friends. Good Mexican food now and then. And maybe…

Recycling your car in Canada
November 16, 2009 – 8:20 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Recycling your car in Canada

Where do Canadian cars go to die?

No, it’s not the setup for a joke. When your old car has lived out its useful life, a green choice is to send it to Canada’s “Car Heaven.”

Dialing while driving in Canada
November 9, 2009 – 7:00 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Dialing while driving in Canada

Ontario became the latest Canadian province to ban the use of hand-held cell phones while driving.

Ontario’s new distracted driving law, which took effect October 26, 2009, prohibits drivers from using any hand-held wireless communication …