Globe and Mail (Canada)

Eric Roher
A new educational year is taking shape, and one issue that is challenging schools across Canada is the dramatic growth and impact of information and communication technologies. All students, teachers and staff have the right to feel and be safe, but cyberbullying and harassment are becoming widespread, from the elementary level to universities.

Anthony E. Wolf
It's okay if your husband butts heads with your son more than he does with your daughter. Conscientious parenting is what matters

He can rewire a Wii and restore a hard drive, but your kid has no idea how to heat up dinner or unclog a toilet. The good news: Two Canadian mothers have compiled a 500-page instruction manual for your clueless young adult. The bad news: As Tralee Pearce finds out, it may already be too late

ISTANBUL — Fatma Benli doesn't like the word “symbol.” But somewhere in the folds of the flowered green and brown scarf wrapped tightly around her oval face – and the similar coverings worn by millions of Turkish women – is the crux of their country's spreading political crisis, with its duelling allegations of coup plots and coming Islamic caliphates.

She says she is the victim of a state run amok, persecuted for holding political views that are outside the mainstream

Created by former prime minister Paul Martin, a pilot program at one Thunder Bay high school is turning aboriginal youth into budding entrepreneurs

Russell Smith
The discussion of the future of the book in the digital age continues to preoccupy the literary classes. Two extreme positions tend to dominate: Either the digitization of everything will lead to a golden age of reading and knowledge, or it will result in a crass bazaar of entertainment products that devastates the precious copyright that artists require to earn an income.

Seeking profit, unscrupulous religious teachers are sending their charges into the streets to beg, Stephanie Nolen reports

New British research contradicts previous U.S. studies that said moms and dads who divorced get less help later in life from their children

Canada has a skills problem that's well on its way to becoming a skills crisis. The critical need is to become a more productive economy, and spending on postsecondary education is one of the most effective ways for government to spend tax dollars and to make an impact on the productivity and competitiveness of the Canadian economy.

Resorting to the use of mental patients to carry out recent Baghdad bombings suggests a moral bankruptcy
GERALD OWEN
Life seemed to gruesomely imitate art, in a pair of suicide bombings in Baghdad earlier this month, which killed close to a hundred people, with a peculiarly horrific new twist in the lamentable annals of terrorism.

From pulp and paper waste to biofuels, forest health and green energy, environmental researchers take aim at a wide variety of targets

A growing number of children in Canada, as in the United States, are being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Their symptoms include bouts of mania and depression, reckless behaviour, delusions of grandeur and a propensity for suicide.

Rather than segregate students, we need to treat them all more like family
"No wonder there's violence."  "We need schools that cater to new Canadians." "Private schools and religious schools provide a better education."  " We need a separate school for blacks."

Ontario institutions facing the highest demand for first-year spots since the double cohort