The Métis invention of the Red River cart that brought the first wheeled transportation to the Canadian Prairies is the centerpiece of an educational resource developed by the University of Victoria to provide young Métis children with culturally re…

Any parent with a computer in the house knows the warnings—keep the device in a central place, like a kitchen, so children can surf the internet under the supervision of an adult.

Carolyn Peacock has always been an advocate for children, even when she was one herself. In grade three, she often went home with bloodied hands after getting the strap at the Edmonton school she attended. Her crime? Defending other children who were being bullied. Those children were usually immigrants and were picked on, as she too had been at school.