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Legal Ease: Relatively speaking, be certain you have a clear mandate
A mandate is a contract by which a person, the mandator, gives power to another person, the mandatary, to represent him. This contract is called a power of attorney.
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Here at Sun Youth: Motivated to better young lives
Righting social inequities motivated a group of youngsters to establish Sun Youth in 1954.
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Sun Youth: Making a special connection
“If grandparents did not exist, we would have to invent them.”
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Word Nerd: Orange you glad it’s not called red?
Dedicated readers of the Word Nerd column might remember that five years ago I explained that, lexicographically, at least, there is no debate that the egg preceded the chicken.
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Financial Fitness: What do low oil prices mean for investors?
As you’ve no doubt noticed, your trips to the gas station have been a lot more pleasant these past several months. There’s not much doubt that lower oil prices have been welcome to you as a driver. But when oil is less expensive, is that good for you as an investor?
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Generations Foundation: Our precious assets
Children are our most precious assets. Little did we realize, before the days of broader knowledge, that we could mold a child’s future even in the womb.
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Let’s Talk About It: Sibling relationships change as parents lose capacity
As a parent moves into a world of dementia with increasing care needs, children will often react differently.
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Legal Ease: Taking stock of end-of-life care
Until recently, it was a crime in Canada to assist others in ending their lives. Those grievously and irremediably ill and in pain could not seek a physician’s assistance in dying. A person facing this prospect had two options: take his own life prematurely, often by violent or dangerous means, or suffer until death occurred from natural causes.
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Flavour Guy: Creative cooking when the child moves out
I am looking for a new word, something positive for the emotional state parents feel when a child moves out.
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