Life

From Canada to the U.S. to Europe, many families’ loved ones made it back from Afghanistan thanks to John Bloggins (his name has been changed to protect his privacy).

Small is getting bigger for sure. The average North American single-family house will drop to 2,152 square feet this year, 10 per cent smaller than five years ago, according to the U.S. National Association of Home Builders.

A U.S. study finds keeping speech free of sexism and racism boosts group creativity

Cancer survivor Chiquita Hessels has fought the disease and watched it kill relatives, and says knowledge is the best weapon to have in the fight. “Information is always very powerful in my mind,” Hessels said.

Exposure to other kids and pets lowered risk

Deafined is staffed by deaf or hard of hearing servers

The message on Facebook came from the middle of a war zone. “It’s people like you that give me and so many others hope that we are not forgotten and alone,” Yemeni peace activist Nina Aqlan wrote to Canadian teacher Kathleen Connors and her students.

Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th-century British prime minister, once ridiculed an opposition member of parliament by saying: “He is distinguished by his ignorance, for he had only one idea and that was wrong.

NEW YORK — For 94-year-old Louise Irving, who suffers from dementia, waking up every day to a video with a familiar face and a familiar voice seems to spark a flicker of recognition.

Terry LeBlanc’s garden is a vision of extravagant plantings.