It’s justifiably a worst nightmare, but child abduction in Canada is not the norm. Missing Children Society of Canada looked at the 46,718 missing children recorded by the RCMP in 2011. The majority were runaways, parental kidnapping accounted for 145 and a stranger kidnapping was 25. Though absolutely horrifying, one missing child is too many, these numbers do not reflect Canada’s 5,607,345 fourteen years and under crowd recorded by Statistics Canada. Parental abduction is what will most likely occur in the rare event that your child is kidnapped. It usually occurs between separated parents, where one is not abiding by the custody agreement. The RCMP website says, “Canadian law enforcement definition of a stranger not only refers to someone totally unknown to the child victim but also refers to…
Strawberry Shortcake, The Care Bears and My Little Pony have shed pounds to stay hip. Though it is unhealthy to be obese, it is perfectly healthy to hammer it home to the kiddos that thin is perfection. With thinner bears and ponies running around, let’s make them hot. Elongate their legs and eyelashes. Why leave low self-esteem up to images on TV, billboards, magazine covers, posters, bus sides (and some steamy real estate ads here in Whitby)? The New York Times‘s Brooks Barnes wrote about these characters makeovers in a 2008 article. Spawning a clever reflection by Andi Zeisler with Bitch Magazine. Childhood obesity is on the rise, I’m not saying that’s fantastic. Nor is taking my childhood cartoons and making them fierce. There must…
