If you are travelling to Vancouver from Calgary or vice versa, Enerjet has has a great deal for families! Kids ages 2-17 receive free airfare when accompanied by an adult. Travel dates are October 5th & 8th, 2012. Airfares start from $94.00 (one way) per adult. For more information visit
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The kids are back in school. Your schedule is almost all yours for at least a few hours every day. Coffees are sipped while still hot. Life is good. Then, you have visions of Halloween. Before you gulp hard thinking up ways to distract your 7-year-old long enough to keep
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Did anyone catch the series premier of Justin Time on Sunday? My kids missed it but since they slept in late I am not shedding too many tears! We got to preview the show a little while ago and it’s a cute cartoon about a boy name Justin and his
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Last year right on September 1st my husband’s SUV (the newer of our two vehicles) died. Or more accurately, a problem developed with the transmission that would have cost a significant amount of money to fix. This is not a fun situation at the best of times, but for us,
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Last year, when the Grey Cup was held in Vancouver, my husband and I, along with our friends visiting from Calgary, headed down to the convention centre to take part in the team parties. I waited in line for a photo with the coveted Grey Cup and we all had
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We try to limit TV and movies for our children. We don’t have any deep philosophical or moral objections to television, nor do we think the shows and movies we allow them to watch will harm them developmentally. No, we don’t let them watch a lot of TV because left
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