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Birds along King St East on a grey January afternoon.
Birds along King St East on a grey January afternoon. - Tanja-Tiziana | Show Photo

Pickering - Ajax - Whitby

Waterfront in Pickering
Waterfront in Pickering - Tanja Tiziana
This string of cites east of Toronto along Lake Ontario have traditionally been Toronto's bedroom communities. Pickering is mainly residential but has a substantial industrial area by Ontario Power Generation's nuclear plant while its northern sections remain rural. In 2006 Pickering was one of Profit Magazine's 10 cities in Canada to grow a business. Ajax's twenty-year plan include efforts to control how physical development occurs and focuses on environment, transportation and building quality places. The Town of Whitby has spent $30 million expanding cultural facilities over the past five years and its downtown area is undergoing revitalization.

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The Transracial Parenting Initiative helps parents and kids prepare to be mixed race families

Each year there are approximately 2,000 overseas adoptions in Canada, many of which create interracial families. Likewise, scores of domestic adoptions produce similar homes. There can be unique challenges for parents who raise children from a different background. Susan Crawford has solutions.

When Scientists go to School

Ajax-based Scientists in School brings the fun into science education and hopes to breed a new generation of innovators from an early age.

Good for the body, good for the soul, and good for the wallet.

Muslim businesses spread out over the 416 and 905 are generating millions of dollars in a parallel "halal" economy that's seeing increasing cross-over into the mainstream.
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