chatelaine-daily, flannery-dean

If recent research is reliable then it seems that gender equality brings out the best in men when it comes to mate selection. As for women, well, the more parity we enjoy the more shallow our choices remain concerning the men we prefer and subsequently target.

Where have all the good mistresses gone? The declining stock in decent women willing to sleep with another woman’s husband while simultaneously maintaining a dignified silence on the details of the betrayal can no longer be ignored. We’re at crisis level. On newsstands around the world, the integrity of infidelity is being assailed.

The next time your junior couch potato reaches for her iPad and a bag of Cheetos, why don’t you put down your Blackberry and suggest that you both take the dog for a walk?

A Calgary man is fighting for your right to fresh eggs from your own backyard. What do you think about it?

Do French mothers know something about raising children that North American mothers don’t? That’s the premise behind the new book, Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Paris-based writer Pamela Druckerman.