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• The Parenting Olympics
  With the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics mere days away from kicking off, I thought there was no better time to bring to you, loyal readers, an ...
• January brings tantrums, hugs and stomach bugs
  I gently rubbed my daughter's back as she calmly threw the contents of her stomach up into the toilet and helped her brush her teeth again ...
• Drinking and driving destroys families
  The holiday season is a wonderful time for catching up with loved ones, family and friends. A large number of us can remember great, not-so-great ...
• Tierney, Benedetti ousted
  Ste. Anne de Bellevue and Beaconsfield will both have new mayors after incumbents Bill Tierney, who had been in charge since 1994 (with a sojourn ...
• Court made right call on Pardi case
  Every so often, courts and judges make decisions that on the level of common sense, make little to no sense at all — and then, there are other ...
• It's the most wonderful time of the year
  Now, as the calendar has burned another summer away, I find myself shifting that mindset just a little bit, and in the days following the Labour ...
• Teach your kids to swim: you'll be glad you did
  As a result, my daughter has been a regular visitor to the community pool near our home for the last five summers, with her first visit coming at ...
• Whitlock stands the test of time
  The Duffer's Guide made its first – and hopefully, far from its last – visit to beautiful Whitlock Golf and Country Club last week, and, ...
• St. Lazare Golf Club: beware the tricky greens
  There’s no such thing as a bad day on the golf course, but St. Lazare Golf Club’s greens can help you get a little cranky if you’re not careful. ...
• Hitting the reset button
  It's déjà vu all over again. My wife and I are expecting our second child (a boy, incidentally) sometime in the next month or so, and as you can ...
• Atlantide a nice early-season treat for golfers
  It's a long drive down through Ile Perrot to get to Atlantide Golf Club, located on the island's southern tip, but it is a trip very much worth ...
• NFL: Brett Favre coming back? Our experts debate!
  You watch: Brett Favre is coming back . . . .again *sigh* As I write this, Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress is on his way to meet ...
• NFL: Brett Favre coming back? Our experts debate!
  You watch: Brett Favre is coming back . . . .again *sigh* As I write this, Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress is on his way to meet ...
• Earth Day has outlived its usefulness
  April 22 has come and gone, and with it, a great deal of fanfare, brouhaha and other derring-do with tons of municipalities, schools and other ...
• Father loses appeal he never should've had to file
  A Gatineau father who grounded his 12-year-old daughter was once more a loser in court when Quebec Superior Court overturned his appeal of an ...
• Wait, you mean marketing to kids is illegal?
  The provincial government's consumer-affairs watchdog recently slapped General Mills Canada with a $2,000 fine after it learned that General ...
• Kids deserve, need to have fathers in their lives
  Forgive me for continuously beating the octuplet drum, but I can't get my mind around the whole situation. Only this week, it's because of the ...
• Octuplets' mother has enough problems already
  You wanted fame, Nadya Suleman. Now you got it. The 33-year-old unemployed single mother of six, including two-year-old twins, underwent ...
• A series of moments
  In some ways, this parenting column allows me to record my daughter's development and rail away at those things related to child-rearing that irk ...
• Jourdenais taking winning streak to next level
  It's been a long time since Jason Jourdenais lost a football game as head coach of the bantam AAA North Shore Lions. And now, he won't get ...
• Parents of the Year 2008
  It's been a wild year for parents, and for me, doubly so. I'm getting into that transition phase of parenting, where my daughter is going from a ...
• Heads up!
  In what is quickly becoming an annual tradition, the students and staff of Selwyn House School participated in the Shave to Save fundraising ...
• Nagoya Sushi is best in Westmount
  "Nagoya had the best presentation, it was fresh and delicious," one judge said, adding that it was also the most reasonably priced among the ...
• Thanksgiving: Don't drop the turkey
  So our first turkey dinner as a family a tour home has come and gone, and it's times like these that I'm thankful more than ever for my family ...
• Cheetahs drop heartbreaker to Cougars
  Defending Bol d'or champs fall in fourth quarterThe West Island content on the Vanier College Cheetahs CEGEP AAA football team couldn't help the ...
• So much stuff to clean up and so little time
  It's no one's fault but my own, but that still doesn't preclude me from lamenting the state of affairs that led me to spend the better part of a ...
• BREAKING NEWS: Couple in their 70s found dead in garage
  A milkman made a grisly discovery in a residential garage of a home on Westmount Avenue early Thursday morning. The bodies of a man and woman in ...
• Palin's parenting skills need some work
  It's not even that Palin appears, from many accounts, to be the sort of person whose opinion is the only one that matters, or that she was chosen ...
• Job fair a huge hit with visitors
  Two-day fair brings hundreds of job-seekers, employers togetherThe Chronicle's parent company Transcontinental Media human-resources employees ...
• A Duffer's Guide
  Como Golf Club a hidden jewel