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July 2010

Finance Tips for Stay-at-Home Dads

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The old parenting model of mothers as Homemaker and fathers as Breadwinner is giving way to a growing change about who keeps the home fires burning.  Recent figures from Statistics Canada reveal Canadian couples are re-balancing the work of supporting a family. In 1976, when new fathers rarely crossed the threshold of hospital delivery rooms, stay-at-home dads represented only one…

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7 Sins of Garage Disorganization

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A recent Gladiator® GarageWorks survey found that Canadians’ garages are not the organized oasis they dream of. The majority of Canadians (76%) claim they’ve tried to organize their garage within the last year, but only 7% admit that it is truly organized.  Why?  According to the survey, there’s a good chance that Canadians are guilty of at least one of…

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What is a Dadoir? And Why

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There are certain pitfalls in the process of naming a thing. For a project with the mighty ambition of summing up the current state of the dadosphere, any junior linguist like myself might make the objection that dadoir lacks verve. But let’s just say dadoir is convenient for now (yes, manoir was considered, but disqualified after a shocking trip to…

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