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This article was updated on Oct. 12, 2024. Below are some tips on creating your own kid-friendly walkable community, from Jennifer Keesmaat, former chief planner and executive director for the City of Toronto. Start walking to school “Create a walking school bus,” says Keesmaat. “Identify other parents in the neighbourhood whose kids go to the … Continued

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Being a new parent is exciting, tiring, and sometimes downright scary. You’ve been given this incredible task of shaping a new person’s life and sometimes you aren’t sure if you’re doing more harm than good for your little one. You know what doesn’t help make being a new parent easy? Other people’s parenting advice. I’m … Continued

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