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Spotlight
Help! We've Got Kids
Thousands of products, services, activities & programs for kids & families in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. 45 categories including Birthdays, Childcare, Parent/tot Programs, Camps, Outings & more. Interactive search, calendar, coupons, e-newsletter too.
Business
Entrepreneurial Moms (EMC)
With its flagship chapter in Calgary (EMC), Entrepreneurial Moms is a growing family of local networking communities of fantastic moms who are running or plan to start their own business. We welcome moms seeking support and education in their endeavors, and professional and social connections with other entrepreneurial women.
Connect Moms
Connect Moms connects professionally minded moms with careers and inspiring content. We seek out companies whose workplace environments recognize that the best employees have different needs at different times throughout their careers. We strive to attract companies who offer results-oriented and flexible cultures in order to present job opportunities and career-related content that reflect the dynamic needs of working moms.
Women's Enterprise Centre
Women’s Enterprise Centre is the go-to place for BC women business owners for business loans, skills training, business advisory services, resources, publications and referrals.
WorkingMoms.ca
WorkingMoms.ca is a Canadian working mom web-resource centre that helps moms achieve balance in their daily busy lives. From helpful articles to free mom e-biz postings, part-time barter babysitter network and personal shopping when you’re in a bind, there’s nothing we haven’t thought of to make time with your family more enjoyable and stress-free.
The Mompreneur
The Mompreneur magazine is a national, free magazine for women who are balancing the role of motherhood with being an entrepreneur.
Westcoast Moms' Network Inc.
Westcoast Moms' Network Inc. is commited to inspiring women through social interaction and support, empowering women to reach their career potential, and enlightening women on self-care and life balance.
Children
Calgary's Child Magazine
Calgary's Child Magazine is the trusted source for news and information about issues, classes, activities and support for families. It is available free of charge on stands in and around Calgary and online at www.calgaryschild.com
WestCoastFamilies
WestCoast Families magazine is the place to go for local family
fun, information and ideas. Pick up your copy of WestCoast Families
at any one of 750 locations around the Lower Mainland, including
McDonald's, Safeway, IKEA, community centres, libraries &
children's stores. Or download the magazine online at www.westcoastfamilies.com.
Oprah's Book List for Kids
Oprah's team has compiled some great recommendations from the American Library Association. They make excellent presents and perfect excuses to read with the children in your life.
Little Soles
Fresh Urban Footwear ~
Little Soles™ Urban Class Footwear for Children™ was founded in 2005 by Canadian Mompreneur and impassioned designer, Jessica Jacobs. Little Soles™ mission is to provide fresh, footprint-conscious, fashion-forward footwear. For those of you clever & conscious consumers seeking stylish, eco-minded alternatives to mainstream fashion
Family
Trust Parenting Speaker Series
Trust Parenting Speaker Series prepares Parents with skills & solutions. Understand and stay connected through the natural phases of your Tots, Tweens and Teens Development.
Raising Kids of Compassion
"Raising Children of Compassion" is a Virtues Project™ based course for parents focused on bringing out the best in ourselves and our children. You will leave with the knowledge and strategies of how to: encourage self confidence in your children, use clear boundaries based on respect, peace and justice and empower your children to make responsible choices and be compassionate to others. Ongoing courses are available. Please call or email Dana Miller, Virtues Project Facilitator for more information. dana.miller@shaw.ca or 403.589.6031 or go to: Virtues Project website
Family Fun Calgary
Family Fun Calgary is our city's #1 resource with up to date activities in Calgary for your family to enjoy. Calgary is an amazingly family friendly city with so many things to do together as a family both indoors and outside.
Generations of Hope
The Generations of Hope Fertility Assistance Fund was conceived in 2005 as an initiative of the Regional Fertility Program, Calgary. The primary objective of the Fund is to help Canadians who wish to conceive a child, but who are facing fertility challenges in the pursuit of their dream, and who also face serious financial challenges that make the hope offered by assisted reproductive technology through the Regional Fertility Program - particularly In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) - an unaffordable option for them. It’s our goal to put the hope for a child within reach for as many
people as possible.
Balance My Life
Balance My Life lauches online: A new online magazine targeted at confident, mature women recently launched focusing on what all women need to know to thrive, have fun, and reach their goals. The site features local writers and business owners and shares inspirational articles, helpful tips, credible advice and community news.
Urbanmommies.com
Urbanmommies.com is your online resource for new and expecting parents offering tips, articles and information on all things baby and mommy.
yoyomama.ca
yoyomama.ca keeps Vancouver mums on-the-go in the know with helpful, hip tips delivered to their inboxes daily. The goal? To make mums’ lives less yoyo-like!
Well Being
Maple Mama
Sharing information and giving mothers and mothers-to-be a chance to read and hear from other mothers is maplemama's goal.
Mama Renew
A community of mothers who not only share in the joys and challenges of raising our children, but also in supporting one another as we reclaim, reconnect, and rebalance as women.
Other
Howtodothings.com
HowToDoThings strives to solve people’s everyday problems by compiling reliable information from experienced contributors and making it available to inexperienced readers. It’s simple: We’re a community sharing its expertise to solve people’s problems.
Partners
Dress for Success
Dress for Success promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

