Monday, June 22, 2009   
Kids still not getting enough exercise
Health
Parents concerned that their children are spending too much time watching television, playing video games or at the computer are being urged to consider ways to make physical activity more of a family affair, Canadian Press reported.

“Rather than . . . watching television together, we’d say just schedule time in perhaps before dinner or right after dinner and have a little bit of family time that’s physically active,” said Kelly Murumets, president and CEO of ParticipAction.
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Monday, June 22, 2009   
Daily alcohol intake can lead to binge drinking
Health
New Canadian research suggests that people who consume alcohol three or four times a week are susceptible to becoming binge drinkers, Canadian Press reported.

About 11,000 men and women took part in the study conducted by researchers at the Université de Montréal and the University of Western Ontario. Participants were asked to report their levels of alcohol consumption over one year.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009   
Recession hurts working moms
Family
Ontario’s Human Rights Legal Support Centre suspects working women are being forced to bear the brunt of workplace cutbacks caused by the current recession, Canadian Press reported.

An independent agency funded by the province of Ontario, the centre provides free legal counsel to people who allege they are victims of discrimination.

Executive director Katherine Laird told CP it now receives up to 15 complaints a week from women who have lost their jobs or fear they will be fired solely because they are either pregnant or on maternity leave. She said the volume of such cases began rising significantly in January, just as the recession began impacting the workplace.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009   
Recovering home: How drug treatment courts can reconnect families
Family
Written by Peter Jon Mitchell, a research analyst at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

Speaking to a small, attentive audience, she described how her dad recently entrusted her with his credit card to buy concert tickets. She simply stated, “It was huge.” Though she might sound like a young teen experiencing the first taste of adult responsibility, this middle-aged woman is a recovering addict in a court supervised drug treatment program.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009   
Public pressure still needed to pass C-268
Sexuality
Even though Members of Parliament voted overwhelmingly to give approval in principle to her bill boosting prison time for child-sex traffickers, Manitoba Conservative MP Joy Smith warns that is no guarantee it will eventually become law.

Private member’s bill C-268 proposes giving courts no option but to sentence persons convicted of trafficking in children under the age of 18 to a minimum five-year prison term. On April 22, it passed second reading by a vote of 232-47.
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