Age gap: Alberta bucks trend of aging Canadian population

Phoenix Knowler doesn't give his mom much down time. He's two years old and is happy to spend all day at the playground, the same as his two brothers. "It's very busy and you're working full time and feel pulled in three different directions," says his mother, Cristina Valkoczi, "but it's joyful at the same time." With three children, Valkoczi is an outlier in Canada, where - on average - a woman will have 1.4 children. That historically low number is causing concerns about who will keep the cou