Child Obesity linked to diabetes and heart problems.

The researchers say the truth may prove to be worse: the recommended screening test for prediabetes may be making many children appear healthier than they really are.

Canadian Prime Minister apologizes to the First Nations

Stephen Harper told residential school survivors Wednesday that Canada was wrong to set up the system and “sincerely apologizes” for separating families and for the abuses children endured.

Child development connected to Mother’s mental health

Evaluating the emotional health and social connectedness of pregnant women may help determine if their children will need extra help to meet developmental goals later on, Canadian researchers say.

Child development connected to Mother’s mental health

<a href=”http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=ed4dafe5-e241-4d9f-8831-1f464e7432bf Evaluating the emotional health and social connectedness of pregnant women may help determine if their children will need extra help to meet developmental goals later on, Canadian researchers say.
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Most Popular Names For Baby

What’s in a name? More than you think. A searchable database of baby name trends over the past 107 years reveals some monikers shoot to meteoric heights before fizzing out completely.

Polygamy – Human Trafficking

From some Canadian consular officials monitoring the interim custody hearing, nobody has done anything. Perhaps it’s not surprising. Afterall, the Canadian government allowed the U.S. government to lock up a Canadian teen in Guantanamo Bay.

Does Mikey Like It? Then It’s Not As Nutritious.

Breakfast cereals for children are less healthy than cereals meant for adults, and those marketed the most aggressively to kids have the worst nutritional quality, according to a new analysis of 161 brands.

Young Canadian Girls Sent To Texas Polygamist Compound.

Teressa Wall Blackmore, who left the reclusive sect nearly two years ago, can name five young women sent from Bountiful, B.C. to marry American members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who are now living in Eldorado. Of the five, she says, two are married to FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs.

Out goes the baby bottle

Canada could ban products containing bisphenol A. The Hudson’s Bay Company has decided to pre-empt Health Canada with plans for an urgent national recall of plastic baby bottles, cups and toys containing the synthetic chemical compound from 280 Zellers and 94 Bay stores.