Investigative reporter Richard Tardif explores the buzz zone, that area outside of what we call our Comfort Zone. This week’s guest is Donna Legault, a Bilingual Career Transition Coach. Length: 7:39 Host Richard Tardif asks, “Where does someone look for help when they want to change careers?” Whether you’ve been let go from your present position […]
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We are living an obesity epidemic, with Alain Guillot. Alain writes and podcasts about personal finance, entrepreneurship, and life improvement. He believes we all have the tools to achieve whatever goal we set our mind to achieve. As a podcaster, he interviews experts, authors, and speakers in the personal finance and self-improvement arena. “I want to extract the techniques
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Former Senator Nancy Green Raine says the 2016 draft proposal “sugar tax” advocates a 20 percent tax based on an average price for sugary drinks of $2.50 per litre, said to reduce obesity, saving Canada’s health care system money, and make some for the government. Length: 5:57 Update. No tax on sugary drinks in federal
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If you had asked me five years ago, you would have seen I was a stalwart defender of newspapers, even to the point of disdain with the term newspaper industry; instead likening newspapers to the people’s surrogate covering society’s waterfront, as Bill Kovatch and Tom Rosenstiel refer to in their 2001 book The Elements of
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Mounina Bouna Aly’s journey and the passage from internal misery to healing, accepting the divinity of her body, the wisdom of her soul, and the freeing of her mind, “Was a gift given to her by Multiple Sclerosis,” writes the 41-year-old first-time author. Shocked? Unbelieving? Her debut book, Receiving the Healing Gift in MS: My
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Another breakfast study has emerged. This one is telling us that breakfast does matter. Other studies say we can go without eating for two, three or maybe five hours after we wake up. It doesn’t matter. There isn’t a middle ground here. Other studies say we must eat to get going and take in some
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Wendy’s debut of their now-iconic “Where’s the Beef?” commercial in 1984 had everyone uttering this trendy catchphrase, a growly verbal tag immortalized by 81-year-old Clara Peller as an old lady demanding more meat from her fast-food hamburger. The commercial run ended a year later when her relations with Wendy’s turned bitter after Peller repeated her
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By Richard Tardif When the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) in 2011 granted a transport license to Ontario’s Bruce Power to ship 16-mothballed generators containing unpredictable levels of plutonium, the proposal was already dead in the water, sort of speak. In the end it was another sign of a mass environmental concern trumping over corporate concern. The
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By Richard Tardif In very broad strokes, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., in February 2019 introduced a framework defining what they call a “Green New Deal” — what they foresee as a massive policy package that would remake the US economy and eliminate all U.S. carbon emissions. The deal sets goals for some drastic
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By Richard Tardif Be careful of the nutrition advice and science you read these days. Their conclusions may be the work of idol minds. These“Idols of the mind”as spoken by English statesman and seventeenth century scholar Francis Bacon, are false images of the mind, referring to the unlikelihood that scientists would seek to disprove their own hypothesis,
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