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Ask Elizabeth: Can Your Aging Parents Still Live Alone?

Natalie Strouth | Posted 06.17.2013 | Canada Living
Natalie Strouth

Ryan asks: At Easter this year I looked around my parent's house and realized that they are not going to be able to live here forever. When do you start talking to your parents about the future and where they going to live as they age?

Diversity Fatigue Can Be Overcome

Trevor Wilson | Posted 05.08.2013 | Canada Business
Trevor Wilson

What you may ask is diversity fatigue? It is the Herculian effort required by diversity practitioners to keep the momentum going through the toughest economic crisis since the depression. It is maintaining the gains with front-line managers (the so-called frozen middle) who ask "when will this diversity thing end? Have we not handled it by now?"

The Luckiest Generation: Adjusting the Boomer Legacy

John Izzo | Posted 04.18.2013 | Canada
John Izzo

This is THE moment for my generation -- the baby boomers. We will either be known as the luckiest generation or we will be known as the wisest generation who chose, before they died, to solve the biggest problems that humanity ever faced.

My Husband and I Are Newspaper-Sharing Soulmates

Kathryne Grisim | Posted 02.03.2013 | Canada Living
Kathryne Grisim

One of the many traditions that my husband and I are establishing as we eke closer to becoming empty nesters is that we have a Saturday morning date where we read the newspaper together. He pores over the first sections of local, national and international news and reads every single editorial. I start from the back and savour the "Random Acts of Kindness," the home section.

Gen Y Faces Big Risk

David Macdonald | Posted 01.26.2013 | Canada
David Macdonald

2012-11-19-slavkoaskingybanner.jpg In an interesting new piece, the Huffington Post tries to determine if it's really tougher for millennials than it was for boomers as part of their Asking Y series. Certainly lots of things have changed since the 1970s: gas has gotten more expensive, electronics have become dramatically less expensive and cars cost about the same. But one thing's for sure, life has gotten a whole lot riskier.

A Generation of "Y"-ners? I Don't Think So

Jeffrey Bernstein | Posted 01.25.2013 | Canada Living
Jeffrey Bernstein

2012-11-19-slavkoaskingybanner.jpg HuffPost Canada has been Asking Y -- presenting a series to dig deeply into the malaise which has come to characterize the ostensible hijacking of my generation's shot at upward mobility.Were we duped, en masse, to believe we could do anything? I don't buy the nay-saying.

We're So Old, It Hurts

CP | Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.20.2012 | Canada Business

BANFF, Alta. - Canada's aging population, combined with a lacklustre birthrate, is going to dramatically impact our country's economic performance in ...

Who is the Real "Worst Generation Ever," Mr. Sorkin?

Michael Raine | Posted 08.29.2012 | Canada
Michael Raine

In Aaron Sorkin's new drama, The Newsroom, the main character tells a twenty-something year old student that she is part of "without a doubt, the Worst. Generation. Ever." Well, that same description might better fit the Baby Boomer generation if they don't participate in fixing the problem they created for Generation Y.

How You Think About Money Is as Important as How Much You Have

Kathy Barthel | Posted 11.13.2011 | Canada Living
Kathy Barthel

Often it's how you think about money that is keeping you from having enough to live on comfortably. Is it better to be poor and happy than rich and unhappy? Are you optimistic that things will work out somehow? What beliefs have you developed about money and are they sound?