How Canada should care for young caregivers

Sixteen-year-old Samiha Rahman is a normal teenager in most ways. She does well in school, likes talking on the phone, enjoys spending time with her friends. But at the age of 12, Rahman’s life took an unexpected turn: her mother was diagnosed with ALS, the debilitating and eventually fatal condition also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease — and Rahman became one of the estimated 1.25 million Canadians under 25 who are forced to care for an ill or disabled family member. Read more