Tuesday, August 17, 2010   
Palliative care: what is it and what does it do?
Health

Written by Derek Miedema, researcher at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

When Bill-C-384, drafted to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide, was defeated by a margin of 228 to 59 on April 21, 2010, parliamentarians heard and acted on the wishes of the majority of Canadians. Instead, many MPs stated that we need to improve end-of-life care in Canada. Palliative care is one of the chief means to accomplish this.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010   
B.C. sex tourist jailed for 11 years
Sexuality
A British Columbia man who had pleaded guilty in court to having engaged in “sex tourism” involving young Cambodian and Colombian girls will be spending the next 11 years in prison. As the Province reported, this is “the longest sentence ever awarded in Canada” for this offence.

But while child protection advocates generally welcome the severity of the sentence handed Burnaby resident Kenneth Robert Klassen, some believe that even this is not enough given the utter depravity of the crimes he committed.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010   
Poll finds Canadians more accepting of same-sex "marriage"
Sexuality
An online survey conducted last month by Angus Reid Public Opinion suggests that while a majority of Canadian adults are supportive of same-sex “marriage,” majorities of both British and American adults remain opposed.

The survey found that 61 per cent of Canadians favour keeping same-sex “marriage” – which has been legal in Canada since 2005 – the law of the land. By comparison, 41 per cent of Britons and only 36 per cent of Americans said they would like it to become the law in their countries.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010   
The more affection babies shown, the better
Health
Two independent studies appear to confirm the long-term benefits to children whose parents showed them lots of affection when they were babies – and the long-term damage they can suffer when that love is withheld by the people closest to them.

As the Globe and Mail reported, a team of researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, found that the more affection infants received from their mothers, the less likely they were to develop anxiety and other mental health issues as adults.
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Monday, July 19, 2010   
Canada’s top family-friendly cities
Marketplace
Written by Andrea Mrozek, manager of research and communications at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

What makes a city family-friendly? The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada thoroughly examined this question in our first family-friendly cities index, a report card evaluating 33 Canadian cities that was released in June 2010.

Of course, “family-friendliness” is defined differently by different families. In our study we assessed cities across Canada according to 23 factors grouped into five categories: community feel, education choice, cost of living, economic strength and family independence.
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