
Natalie Stechyson
Senior Writer & Editor
Natalie Stechyson has been a writer and editor at CBC News since 2021. She covers stories on social trends, families, gender, human interest, as well as general news. She's worked as a journalist since 2009, with stints at the Globe and Mail and Postmedia News, among others. Before joining CBC News, she was the parents editor at HuffPost Canada, where she won a silver Canadian Online Publishing Award for her work on pregnancy loss. You can reach her at natalie.stechyson@cbc.ca.
Latest from Natalie Stechyson

God, what has she done? Chappell Roan says parents are 'in hell' and sparks some tough talks
The singer's hot take, which she made on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast last week, have some stressed parents saying they feel seen.
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Netflix's Adolescence is making parents panic about what kids do online — but should they be?
The show, filmed in England, explores the difficult questions that arise when a 13-year-old boy is accused of stabbing a girl in his school to death. It has been watched by more than 66 million people worldwide since it launched earlier in March.
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Desperate for eggs, the U.S. looks to Europe. Why haven't they asked Canada to shell out?
Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden are among the nations the U.S. Department of Agriculture approached to address the shortage, according to European industry groups.
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Who's protecting the 'beautiful, happy children' growing up online in influencer videos?
There's a growing backlash to sharenting, the trend of sharing your kid's life online — especially for profit. But as Utah joins the list of U.S. states legislating protections for the children of influencers, some observers say Canada's laws are lagging.
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What happens to your DNA data now that 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy?
Struggling genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy and its co-founder and CEO has resigned, leaving its millions of ancestry testing kit customers with questions about what happens to their data.
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Men keep proposing to women runners during marathons. It makes some people angry
A man recently proposed to his girlfriend as she crossed the finish line of a marathon, and if this sounds familiar it's because it's not the first, 50th or probably even the 100th time it's happened.
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Season 2 of Severance just ended. Here's everything mysterious and important we've learned
The Season 2 finale of the dark and dystopian Apple+ show Severance dropped last night. Here's everything we know about what happened.... and the next season.
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Canada drops to 18th in 2025 World Happiness Report rank, among the 'largest losers'
Canada has slipped to 18th place in the global World Happiness Report, down three spots from last year and placing it among the "largest losers" in happiness in the last two decades, according to the annual report released Thursday.
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U.S. officials cracking down on people trying to bring valuable eggs across the border
Officials made 3,254 egg-related seizures in January and February 2025, according to new data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). That's more than twice as many egg seizures compared to the 1,508 events the same two months a year ago.
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Is parenting really harder these days, or is it just that everything else is?
If you feel like parenting is harder today than it used to be, you're far from alone. But given the state of, well, everything these days, some people are wondering if it's really the parenting that's so challenging, or if we're just raising kids in an impossibly intense time.
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