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Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day?
November 27, 2009 – 6:00 am | No Comment
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 …

Dialing while driving in Canada
November 9, 2009 – 7:00 am | No Comment
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  …

Canada: One of the world’s 10 most peaceful nations
November 2, 2009 – 9:00 am | No Comment
Canada: One of the world’s 10 most peaceful nations

Why move to Canada?

Among the many rea­sons — uni­ver­sal health care, job oppor­tu­ni­ties, and the nat­ural envi­ron­ment, to cite just a few — is that the coun­try is one of the world’s most peaceful …

Leave the crib at home
October 28, 2009 – 8:01 am | 2 Comments
Leave the crib at home

If you’re relo­cat­ing with small chil­dren, you’ve got to worry about a lot of gear. Cribs. Car seats. Strollers. High chairs.

But if you’re liv­ing some­where tem­porar­ily or if you’ve arrived ahead of your moving …

Guide to Canadian universities
October 26, 2009 – 7:00 am | No Comment
Guide to Canadian universities

The Globe & Mail pub­lishes an annual Guide to Canadian Universities, and they’ve just released the lat­est edition.

From an essay on why Canadian uni­ver­si­ties are a bar­gain to pro­files of top pro­fes­sors to …