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My message to Maple Leafs fans: learn to chill a little
“As a lifelong Bruins fan, it has been easy to hate the Leafs and their followers. Every team has their quotient of obnoxious supporters; Toronto just seems to boast an unusually large percentage of them.”You’re right to be nervous about your investments after the huge, widespread gains since the March, 2020, market crash, personal finance columnist Rob Carrick writes.
. They include being ruthless in trimming your speculative holdings and, what some may see as counterintuitive, keep buying.Katherine Takpannie and her son near their home by the Ottawa River, Saturday May 1, 2021.The pandemic has been hard on many Canadians, but mounting evidence indicates that mothers, in particular, whom many families have been relying on through the past year, are buckling under the strain.
It’s not just mothers themselves who suffer when their mental health declines. Their distress can have a spillover effect on the rest of the family. Children are reliant on their parents, not just for their basic needs, but also for relational needs – that is, needs that are met through interactions like play time and reading stories, says Sheri Madigan, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Calgary.
In Ottawa, Katherine Takpannie has been worrying about how her own mental health issues are affecting her two-year-old son. She has struggled to laugh and play with him, while she’s been drowning in depression and grief over the death of her brother in September. Her child’s concerned hugs, in attempt to soothe her sorrow, amplify her heartache. “It made me feel like a bad mother because here I am getting comforted by my son when I’m supposed to be the strong one,” she said.
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