Tuesday, July 28, 2009   
Saskatchewan seeks ruling on marriage commissioner bill
Sexuality
The Saskatchewan government has asked the Court of Appeal to give its opinion on two legislative options that would exempt at least some marriage commissioners from “marrying” a same-sex couple if such a “marriage” is against their religious beliefs, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix reported.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009   
“Mature” teens given say in medical treatments
Health
The Supreme Court of Canada has told the nation’s courts that they must take into consideration the views of “mature adolescents” – teenagers under the age of 16 – in cases involving their refusal to submit to potentially life-saving medical treatments, the National Post reported.

The 6-1 ruling handed down on June 25 stresses that the “best interests of the child” remains the overriding principle in such cases. But it does require judges to take into account a minor’s intellectual capacity and his or her level of “mature, independent judgment” to decide these things for themselves.
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Monday, June 22, 2009   
When we don’t say, “I do”: The cost of declining marriage rates
Family
Written by Andrea Mrozek, manager of research at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

When Statistics Canada’s Census 2006 revealed that marriage rates were on the decline and cohabitation and lone parenting on the rise, it drew little response. Canadians seemed to believe the changing face of Canada’s families would have a neutral impact on society. But would the response have been so blasé if Canadians knew that family breakdown – whether through divorce, lone parenting or cohabitation – increases an individual’s chances of living in poverty?

That’s the result revealed by new research released on June 3 by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. The protection that marriage provides against child poverty is the major theme of the new report, Private Choices, Public Costs: How Failing Families Cost Us All.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009   
Three-in-four teens have social network profile
Culture
Canada’s teenagers are dramatically outpacing their parents when it comes to developing and managing a social network profile, a new Ipsos-Reid study has discovered.

It found that in the 18 months since a similar survey was conducted, the proportion of “online teens” with a social network profile had jumped from 50 per cent to 76 per cent. The proportion of “online adults” also increased over that same period, but at a much lower pace, rising from 39 per cent to just 56 per cent.
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Monday, June 22, 2009   
Major changes proposed for sex offender registry
Sexuality
Police across Canada are welcoming the federal government’s proposed sweeping revisions to the National Sex Offender Registry. One key change, as the Globe and Mail reported, would allow police to use it pro-actively to prevent crime.

As the law now stands, police cannot consult the registry, which lists the names and tracks the whereabouts of people convicted of committing a sexual offence, until after a sex crime has been committed.
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