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Ask Rebecca is smart, honest advice to readers’ questions about life, family and relationships by columnist Rebecca Eckler. Got a question for Rebecca? Submit it anonymously on the form here. You can also send an email to NPadvice@postmedia.com. Dear Rebecca How can my wife and I reunite with our grandchildren? Our son married his wife a few years ago and have brought two beautiful babies into the world. Unfortunately, due to tensions between my wife and my daughter-in-law, we have not yet met our second grandchild. We can tell that our son is struggling with feeling caught in the...
June 23, 2026 - 06:30 | Rebecca Eckler | National Post
Ask Rebecca is smart, honest advice to readers’ questions about life, family and relationships by columnist Rebecca Eckler. Got a question for Rebecca? Submit it anonymously on the form here. You can also send an email to NPadvice@postmedia.com. Dear Rebecca What are the rules these days around who pays for what at weddings? Our daughter is getting married this year. She’s a millennial who has been with her partner for some time. I mention the millennial bit because she is not traditional at all. In fact, I was surprised they were getting married. They live together, have bought a...
June 18, 2026 - 06:30 | Rebecca Eckler | National Post
Marc Miller, federal minister for Canadian identity and culture, refused to weigh in on an evolving controversy surrounding the upcoming “Nakba” exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, under Conservative questioning in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon. The exhibit, which is to be permanent at the Winnipeg museum, focuses on the experiences of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and the creation of the state of Israel. Conservative MP Michael Chong asked Miller about emails showing senior museum officials met with the Palestinian representative to Canada,...
June 16, 2026 - 16:32 | National Post Staff | National Post
The Right Thing to Do is smart, honest advice to readers’ questions about life, family and relationships by columnist Rebecca Eckler. Got a question for Rebecca? Submit it anonymously on the form here. You can also send an email to NPadvice@postmedia.com. Dear Rebecca I am an only child. I am now married and have a toddler. I was raised in a very strict household, largely because of my stay-at-home mother’s tendency to be controlling, narcissistic and emotionally immature, all qualities I did not fully understand until I moved out. Since getting married and becoming a parent, I’ve come...
June 11, 2026 - 06:30 | Rebecca Eckler | National Post
The “World’s first T-Rex leather product,” as it’s been trademarked by its scientific and artistic creators, could fetch up to 500,000 Euros (C$800,000) when bidding starts at a hotel in Paris, France, Thursday evening. Some people within the scientific community, however, are skeptical about whether the lab-grown leather truly comes from the iconic Cretaceous era animal. Here’s what to know about the alleged prehistoric purse. How did they make the T-Rex leather? In 2005, researchers in the U.S. identified soft tissue in the bones of a 68-million-year-old specimen, a finding that “...
June 10, 2026 - 14:19 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
New data from Statistics Canada has revealed current average asking rents across the country’s metropolitan areas and, in good news for renters, prices have decreased in the first quarter of 2026. The Quarterly Rent Statistics program, which uses listings posted on major rental platforms for Canada’s census metropolitan areas (CMAs), revealed that the average asking rent for a two-bedroom apartment was $2,150 per month in the first quarter of 2026, down 0.9 per cent from the first quarter of 2025, when the figure was $2,170. Average asking rents for two-bedroom apartments decreased...
June 10, 2026 - 12:20 | Ellie Hutchings | National Post
