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Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty holds the skipping rope for students of Mount Joy Public School on the first day of school in Markham, Ont., on Tuesday. McGuinty says the new all-day learning program for 4- and 5-year-olds is a key reason to vote Liberal in next year's Ontario election. (Sept. 7, 2010)

Battle lines drawn on full-day kindergarten

Progressive Conservatives hint at what they will do with the McGuinty government’s full-day kindergarten program if elected next October.

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Specialty schools proposed for all four corners of Toronto

The Toronto school board is considering launching four each of a boys’ school, girls’ school, choir school and sports academy next September.

Time to learn, and play, at full-day kindergarten

Kindergarten students at Toronto’s James S. Bell elementary play, paint and go potty en masse during their first full day.

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Free-range kids

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Family Health

Over beers, Dr. Michael Taylor, seen in his lab at MARs Centre, was able to convince notoriously competitive neuro-oncologists to send him

Beers help lead to Toronto breakthrough in childhood brain tumour research

The most common type of childhood brain cancer is actually four diseases with radically different treatment options, Sick Kids researchers have found.

A kid’s-eye view of the walk to school

Only 40 per cent of kids walk or bike to school. Researchers who say it's a missed opportunity for badly needed exercise try to find out why

Advocates call for more help for autism

Parents of children with autism still struggle with long waits and gaps in services, despite efforts to repair Ontario’s patchwork system.

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Babies & Pregnancy

New research says CT scans and other nuclear imaging does not pose a cancer risk to the fetus.

CT, nuclear imaging tests in pregnancy don’t raise risk of cancer in kids: study

Findings should provide a greater degree of comfort to physicians – and their patients – when a diagnostic test is required in pregnancy.

East meets West in this name game

Lentaro Bruce McLeod was born Feb. 9 of this year in Scarborough’s Rouge Valley Centenary hospital, weighing 7 lbs., 7 oz.

Breastfeeding for even a month reduces risk of diabetes

New policies in the workplace should be implemented to allow mothers to continue breastfeeding even after they return to work, says the author of a new study.