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Should Sesame Street’s Bert and Ernie declare they’re gay and get married? That’s what an online petition on the activist website Change.org would like to see happen.

Chatelaine editors and staff dish on their favourite books in honour of World Book and Copyright Day.

There’s nothing like going out to dinner with a friend—and her cell phone, which often sits perched just to the left of her plate. Ah, the deeply private conversations that get interrupted by vibration mode.

The daily challenge of getting to and from work, whether it’s encountering heavy traffic and unexpected road construction, or coping with transit delays and enforced proximity to equally miserable commuters on the city bus or subway, is enough to make even the most even-minded individual cuckoo by Friday night.

A best-in-show surprise at the Westminster dog show; 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan assaulted in Egypt; William Shatner to host the Genies; Lance Armstrong retires (again); and Watson the supercomputer slays the competition on Jeopardy.