Photo by sjgardiner from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. The love a father has for his child is not something that normally begs any explanation, but when Brian Burke found himself twice thrust into the arena of accidental activism—the second time so tragically—he needed to speak out, at the very least, to draw a line in [...]

Same-sex marriages have been valid in Ontario since 2003, but not many people know that it had already been legal for a few years to adopt children together as a gay couple. Following a series of court decisions, Paul Farrell and David Smagata became the first same-sex couple in Canada to jointly adopt a child [...]

Photo by wili_hybrid. There is little more dreadful for a parent than unintentionally hurting one’s own child. There is little more traumatic for a child than having something they dearly want taken away from them. A Toronto psychologist is under fire for recommending controversial treatments which some believe cause just that. A heartbreaking NPR documentary [...]