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Guide Health: Keep your bowel moving

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Thanks to your autonomic nervous system, which regulates evacuation from your bowel, you probably take your bowel habits for granted… except when you can’t. At any one time, anywhere between two and 28 per cent of Canadians are affected by constipation, which can range from a single episode to chronic constipation. In fact, the real […] Read more
Preventing domestic violence
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Preventing domestic violence

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s pause for a moment to let this grim statistic sink in. Every six days a woman in Canada is murdered by her partner. Domestic violence is far too prevalent. Just in the last five years, more than one million people in Canada have reported being either physically or sexually assaulted by their partner or […] Read more
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Guide HR: A goldfish is sharper than you (thanks to smartphones)

We think we do more in this age of instant information, but the quantity and quality of our work actually suffers. We lose on every metric: health, productivity and relationships

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Researchers recently surveyed 2,000 Canadians and also studied the brain activity of 112 individuals using electroencephalograms. What they found is quite intriguing. Canadians’ average attention span was 8.25 seconds in these studies in 2015. In 2000, it had been 12 seconds. The average attention span of a goldfish is… nine seconds. How did this happen? […] Read more
The wonderful aroma of a freshly brewed cup of coffee is just one of thousands of smells your nose lets you enjoy each day.
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Guide Health: Don’t take your sense of smell for granted

Our brains are able to recognize over 10,000 smells, if we keep our olfactory system healthy

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Linked closely with the sense of taste, your sense of smell often gets taken for granted. In general, a quarter of the population have a poor sense of taste, half have an average or normal sense of taste, and a quarter are considered “super” tasters. Our ability to smell mirrors this distribution, although one to […] Read more
Farm boards are under intense pressure to put more tools in the hands of their farmer members.
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Not your same old board

Today’s farming is increasingly sophisticated. Now its boards are too, which is good news all around

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Agricultural boards are under pressure. They can no longer do business the way they always used to, says Rob Black, chief executive officer at the Rural Ontario Institute, a charitable organization in Guelph, Ont. that helps build leadership skills. This time, though, the pressure is coming from their farmers, and especially from the farmers they […] Read more
Guide HR: Are you stressed?
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Guide HR: Are you stressed?

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Reading Time: 3 minutes We’ve studied stress in the workplace for years to try to mitigate it. Organizations like Forbes and Careercast have even published their Top 10 lists of the most stressful jobs. The careers on these lists include firefighters, police, airline pilots, and surgeons, which makes sense because people in these jobs after all are responsible for […] Read more
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Guide Health: Is it really dementia?

Too often we put off getting our forgetfulness checked out, but it may not be Alzheimer’s

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Dementia is a chronic and progressive deterioration of mental capacity, and you have probably heard of Alzheimer’s disease, its most common form. In Canada, about 15 per cent of people 65-plus years old are affected, and with the growth of this age group, the numbers of people affected are sure to increase. Dementia is not […] Read more
Guide Health: Vital first aid for your first aid kits
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Guide Health: Vital first aid for your first aid kits

Choose a day and make it your deadline every year to check all your first aid kits

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Because most of us never really plan on needing them, it’s very easy not to think about that dusty box behind your workbench or the one stowed away in the tractor. Giving your first aid kits just a bit of attention, however, can help make sure your kit does its job if and when you […] Read more
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Guide HR: How to become a credible leader

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Credibility is priceless when you need to influence your partners, advisers, employees, or anyone else around you. But what makes you credible? And why are some people perceived as credible while others aren’t? More importantly, can you grow your credibility? If so, how? It’s a critical issue, because even if you have all the skills, […] Read more
Millennials will work hard, Deal says, but they want their work to matter. Well-managed, they’re great on the farm.
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The Millennial myth

It turns out the Boomers and Millennials aren’t so different, and they can form great teams

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Every day we hear complaints about young people. We complain that they have a sense of entitlement. They aren’t motivated. They don’t have any loyalty to their employers… Not surprisingly, dozens of articles and books have also been written on how to reduce conflict between the generations. But are we making too much of generational […] Read more

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