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54 days ago

lmclaren@globeandmail.comIt's Victoria Day weekend at last - time to fire up the barbecue, crack open a domestic microbrew and contemplate our glorious and historied relationship with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

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61 days ago

Children bring meaning and joy to our otherwise narrow, selfish, little lives, right? Too bad science doesn't back this up

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61 days ago

lmclaren@globeandmail.comThis year, my mother wants only one thing for Mother's Day: a baby.''Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your own kids,'' she recently phoned me up to say. ''C'mon, kiddo, it'll be fun.''

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68 days ago

Old-fashioned as it might seem, cycling is the way of the future

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68 days ago

lmclaren@globeandmail.comThere's an urban transportation revolution afoot, but it's not the one you think.The British government recently launched a & 250-million strategy to introduce the electric car to mainstream London. The initiative, which includes citywide charging points, battery-swapping st ...

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75 days ago

Welcome to the brave new world of digital books

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75 days ago

lmclaren@globeandmail.comJust the other morning, I found myself with nothing to read, so what did I do? I picked up an old novel I had been meaning to get to for ages but hadn't yet managed to buy. The great thing was, I didn't even have to get out of bed. If only Jane Austen could see Mansfield Par ...

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82 days ago

Th anointed-for-greatness offspring of the first boomers, now in our late 20s and early 30s, have fared the worst in the current financial crisis

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82 days ago

lmclaren@globeandmail.comA few years ago, I interviewed University of Toronto demographer David Foot, author of the bestseller Boom, Bust and Echo. Over tea at a campus pub, he assured me that my generation - which included the youngest of what he dubbed the ''busters'' and the eldest of the ''echos ...

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89 days ago

When Mercy Faulkner was two years old, she drew a picture for her mother. It was a red circle with a stem poking out of it. She said it was a tomato. Her mother, being a mother, was impressed.

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