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  What you should know about the Omicron variant

  macleans.ca - By Patricia Treble

  Omicron entered our lexicon at exactly 12 p.m. Eastern Time on Nov. 26, according to Google Trends, which recorded a massive spike in online …

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  What to do as we walk into the pandemic's fifth wave - Macleans.ca

  macleans.ca - By Patricia Treble

  Dr. Malgorzata Gasperowicz has a routine when she gets into a taxi: she makes sure the driver is wearing a mask, rolls down the windows, then often …

• “A new film launches a national campaign focused on young women and alcohol”

  

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  The alarming rise in binge drinking among young women

  macleans.ca - By Rosemary Counter

  In a dingy basement apartment, Taylor and Molly, both 21-year-old students at an unnamed Canadian university, discuss their evening plans. More …

• “If anyone can be called the boss in modern, anti-hierarchical parenthood, it’s the children”

  

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  The collapse of parenting: Why it’s time for parents to grow up

  macleans.ca - By Cathy Gulli

  For modern families, the adage “food is love” might well be more true put another way: food is power. Not long ago, Dr. Leonard Sax was at a …

• “Inside Laurie Gough’s son’s heartbreaking diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder—and how she fought it”

  

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  How we saved our son from OCD - Macleans.ca

  macleans.ca - Laurie Gough

  Although I used to be a travel writer, I took my most frightening journey only recently, with my family, without ever leaving our small Quebec …

• “For the first time in recorded Canadian history, mothers over 40 are officially having more kids than teens are.”

  

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  Forget teen pregnancies. Older moms are the new normal.

  macleans.ca - By Meagan Campbell

  When Bridget Jones gave birth in September, with the release of Bridget Jones’s Baby, the character will happen to be 40 years old. This is not …