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Monday, July 19, 2010

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.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Long-term prospects bright for younger workers, working moms

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Some Canadian economists are predicting that as more and more members of the Baby Boom generation head toward retirement, the labour shortage that this will produce will be generally good news for those who will replace them in the workforce, the Edmonton Journal reports.

The fact that there will not be enough workers within Generation X – those now aged between 30 and 45 years old – to replace the Boomers is “unambiguously positive for the younger generation,” said TD Bank Financial Group chief economist Don Drummond.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Helping Canadians to give more

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Written by Dave Quist, executive director of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

29 to 42. No, those aren’t the words to the latest rap song. It’s a recommendation by the Hamilton-based think tank Cardus to the federal minister of finance to increase the federal charitable tax credit from 29 to 42 per cent. This means Canadians donating to charity would get a higher tax refund for every donation they make.

Why is this important?

The answer has several components. Among them are Canada’s shifting demographics and creating non-governmental capacity to address social needs and giving patterns after that shift occurs.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Dr. Dobson retires

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Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson may have retired from the ministry he began 33 years ago, but his “passion for God and for families carries on,” Focus on the Family Canada president Terence Rolston told Today’s Family News.

In his final act of transitioning Focus on the Family to new leadership, Dr. Dobson hosted the Focus on the Family radio program for the last time on February 26. By some estimates, 200 million people worldwide tuned in to hear his farewell.

Christian Influence in Society

What does the Bible say about becoming involved with politics? Is there a reason why Christians should vote or care about an election?

HEARD AROUND

“Sarah Coyne, professor of family life at Brigham Young University, co-authored a recent study on media aggression and found that out of 120 hours of programming, an average of 52 acts of hostility (physical and verbal) are broadcast per hour on reality TV. Non-reality programming contained only 33 such incidents per hour. Coyne concludes, ‘[Programming is] producing this culture of being mean to each other,’ Coyne said. ‘We're setting up our culture to being overreactive.’ (The study was published in June's Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.)”

[Pluggedin.com 7/6/10; USAtoday.com 6/29/10]

Listing of Pregnancy Care Centres

Pregnancy centres provide loving counselling, practical assistance and a variety of resources to pregnant women. For more information about these services available across Canada, please click here.

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Previous Poll Question Answer

In answer to our previous survey question, the number of Canadian children living in poverty is one in 10.

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