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Guide HR: Have you caught affluenza?

Your desire for ‘more’ can become an addiction, and all bad things that come from addictions can soon follow

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you always want more stuff, more land, more money, or more status? Do feel constantly unsatisfied and envious of others? Are you overburdened, and do you suffer from anxiety? If so, you may have contracted affluenza. This term comes from two words: affluence and influenza. It’s a painful and contagious disease that is transmitted […] Read more
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Time to get cooking

These farm groups are building lifelong customers by teaching kids how to help themselves in the kitchen

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Reading Time: 4 minutes For more and more of today’s kids, basic cooking skills are a lost art. With two parents working non-stop and with a full slate of after-school activities for the kids, families are eating more prepared meals or picking up food on the go. Mary Carver, food literacy specialist at the Ontario Home Economists Association (OHEA) […] Read more
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Guide Health: Should you take non-prescription codeine?

Codeine isn’t actually a good pain reliever. Non-drug therapies are often better

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The majority of narcotic drugs can only be obtained by seeing your doctor and getting a prescription. However, one class of codeine-containing drugs can be purchased without a prescription. These are known as exempted codeine products, and you need to ask your pharmacist for them because they are all kept behind the pharmacy counter in […] Read more
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Eight etiquette rules for the farm

Smooth manners are becoming at least as valuable on the farm as anywhere else

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Reading Time: 5 minutes We all know the feeling, like when we’re at a meeting where we don’t know anyone and we’re feeling awkward about starting conversations. Or maybe we’re new on a board or a committee, and we aren’t sure how formal or informal it’s meant to be. Or when we’ve been invited to an event but we […] Read more
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Guide Health: Getting a good night’s sleep

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Reading Time: 2 minutes With the various sleep aids being advertised, as well as mattresses for beds, you probably have the impression that no one ever sleeps well. Not so! Only one to two per cent of Canadians have insomnia, that is, a chronic problem getting and/or staying asleep. However, from time to time everyone experiences a sleepless night […] Read more
It’s a different world, and the expectations on today’s farmers are higher than ever, says ‘‘Etiquette Guy” Jay Remer.
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Farm Etiquette: Essential for business success

If you stick to these six rules, it won’t actually matter which fork you use

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Reading Time: 4 minutes You may think that etiquette is all about using your napkin at a formal dinner or the rules for making introductions at a cocktail party. And you’d be right… to a point. Those are certainly aspects of etiquette, but Jay Remer, known as Canada’s Etiquette Guy, says etiquette actually goes far beyond knowing some list […] Read more
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Guide Health: Sex life is important

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Reading Time: 3 minutes You have probably seen the ads on television about erectile dysfunction or ED drugs, and you may wonder if this is a new condition. It’s not, but many people don’t want to talk about it (so they just tolerate or ignore the symptoms) and many health care providers don’t ask about it. With the availability […] Read more
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Guide HR: The dark side for entrepreneurs

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Since you are an entrepreneur, some people imagine that you get to do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it. They think running a business means you can follow your passions and have the freedom to work with whomever you like. Some even believe an entrepreneur can choose to buy almost […] Read more
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Preparing women to be career farmers

Fifteen expert ideas for a better start to a woman’s career on the farm

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Reading Time: 5 minutes As more women join the ranks of primary producers, they still find out there are some challenges working in an industry where they are in the minority. How can young women best prepare for a career as a farmer? How can their families help them. Country Guide asked a variety of experts from backgrounds as […] Read more

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