And so we have it. After 10 years under the leadership of Stephan Harper and the Conservative government. Canadians have officially elected in a change with Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party now taking position as Canada’s new leader. I’m sure there are many changes on the horizon under this new leadership, and one of the most controversial has been the Liberal party position on the legalization …

It has always been a puzzling tragedy why some infants are diagnosed with life-threatening cancers at age two while some regular smokers go on to live a full and relatively “healthy “ life. You’ll see some older cancer patients cautioning youth not to smoke due to their cigarette-induced ailments, while other senior smokers can be bragging that their addicting habits had …

I hear it all day long, and I myself am guilty of uttering the same words: “There are no good guys in Vancouver!” I have had the pleasure of growing up in the UK, spent 14 years in Vancouver, and recently made a move to sunny California and find myself saying a similar thing here…”Where do all the good guys …

Lead, mercury and pesticides can harm your health. Found at low levels in foods and consumer products we use, these toxins are absorbed into our bodies from the environment. They can stay there for long periods of time and pass from women to their unborn children, posing potential health risks. Women born and raised outside of Canada tend to have …

A recent Canadian study published in the Pediatrics Journal came to some alarming conclusions about parents’ oral health care initiatives for their children (or lack thereof). The study found that less than 1% of healthy children receive dental care as recommended by health professionals by the time they are 1-year-old. Families participating in the study had their children’s’ dental habits …

Dear Joti, I’ve been dating this guy for about 6 months and I recently noticed that he doesn’t put any pictures of us on his social media: there are none on his Instagram, Facebook, or anything. I made a comment about it and he sort of made a joke and said it wasn’t on purpose. A month later (after we …

Many of you child-free folk may not know that along with becoming a parent, also comes the wonderful plethora of parenting advice. When my son was born I was bombarded with countless suggestions and guidelines as to what the “proper” practices of child rearing are.   Some things I took with a grain of salt, some words I repeat to …

How did you meet your significant other? Was it from mutual friends setting you up? Having a class together? Meeting at work? Over your cellphone? In the next couple of years we may see apps like Tinder become the Vetchola in many of our weddings. Everyone knows more than one person that uses Tinder. There has been a trend of …

We have all woken up from a dream feeling awe-stricken, trying to search from memories in the past few days to make sense of why our subconscious may have conjured up the specific dream. We have done the research and we found your answers! Researchers, scholars and even psychologists as famous as Carl Jung have made claims about what these …

Capricorn (Dec 22 – Jan 20) You’ve been getting more headaches lately because of stress and perhaps a lack of sleep. You need to take some time to yourself and get your body back where it needs to be! Try taking a few moments throughout the day to do some deep breathing or take up a relaxing activity such as …