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REFLECTIONS – for May. 15, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes It is a sunny day in downtown Toronto. A street side vendor is cooking smokies. Tempted by the smell, I fork over $3. I wonder how much money the farmers who produced the food earned? While I am adding onions and relish, an ad on the side of a passing bus catches my attention. “There’s […] Read more
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10 Tips For Organizing Your Family

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Resources Organinizing FROM THE INSIDE OUT by Julie Morgenstern is the motherload when it comes to organizing. www.organizersinCanada.comis the website of the Professional Organizers in Canada Association. Are you tired of the clutter around your house? Join the crowd. Are you also losing your patience with those frantic searches for school permission forms just as […] Read more
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Men Are Twice As Likely To Have Basal Cell Carcinoma And Three Times As Likely To Have Squamous Cell CarcinomaSun Sense Taking Care Of Your Skin

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Dietary sodium or salt is linked to many diseases ranging from kidney problems to high blood pressure, but how do you eat less salt? Salt seems to be everywhere and even if you don t use the salt shaker, your dietary intake may still be high. Next month we ll look at the health risks […] Read more
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Savour The Life

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Reading Time: < 1 minute One of Canada’s leading food-meets-farm voices tells us her own recipe for business success At first, CJ Katz sounds impressed with Saskatchewan agriculture. But why, she wonders, won’t the province do even more to impress her? She’ll be happy to pay. “We have a lot of interesting things going on here,” Katz says. She cites […] Read more
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Katz’s Take On:

Reading Time: 2 minutes “ Marketing is everything,” CJ Katz says emphatically. “You have to put the time in to think — you have to.” Consumer marketing “The biggest problem is that people who market to the consumer, who create new products, they do so in a vacuum,” CJ Katz says. They don’t realize all the trends going on […] Read more
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The Recipe For Business

Reading Time: 2 minutes To make the magazine sustainable, Katz departed from the normal publishing business model. The magazine is free for readers, which isn’t unusual in her market. But what is unusual is that very few columnists are paid — and some actually pay her to write for the magazine. The columns are a type of advertising for […] Read more
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Robert Latimer has nearly finished the 10-year sentence for his part in his daughter Tracy’s death. Meanwhile, there’s been little improvement in the rural health care system that also played its role

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Reading Time: 2 minutes At the end of 2009, Bob Latimer will have served his full 10 years and the government will effectively say that he has now been reformed. The question is: Has rural health care been reformed too? Whatever your view of Robert L a t ime r, ma n y farmers across the country had hoped […] Read more
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We spend time every day thinking about how to manage our farms through good times and bad, but what about ourselves? Our experts weigh in

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Linda Duxbury doesn’t need batteries. Her warning is powerful enough on its own: “Only one in five people are able to turn it off.” A Blackberry will actually make it more difficult for you to find the time to focus on family, says Duxbury, a professor in the Carleton University school of business who specializes […] Read more

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