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It’s going to be a long hot summer, according to Environment Canada — and having bored kids on your hands can make those summer days seem endless (and not in a good way). Sure, I can think of a million things to keep my kids occupied — but a lot of them are really expensive.

You don't have to blow your budget to impress your hostess - here are my five favourite hostess gifts for under ten bucks.

If you believe this report by TD Economics, Canadian home prices are set to drop by just over 10 percent in the next two years. What does a 10-percent drop look like? A quick bit of math shows that if you bought a house last month for $350,000 it would be worth $35,000 less by 2013 — a loss in value of $17,500 for each of the two years.

Doris Elizabeth Nerio Rodríguez has been making tortillas in San Salvador for 15 years. My $25 will help her stay ahead of the inflation curve and grow her businesses. With the help of my money (and the money from others), she can purchase more of the maize and lime she needs to make her tortillas, and more ingredients means more tortillas and more income.

Dear Caroline, I have a co-worker who just came back from vacation looking like a totally different person.We’ve all noticed that her face is much fuller and her chin is totally different. We’re pretty sure she’s had plastic surgery.