Posts in Life
A mentally healthy workforce

How companies small, medium and large can support employee well-being

The workplace isn’t the place for personal problems – or so we used to think. Now, many realize that hiding issues at home is even worse for productivity. It’s why Partners for Mental Health (PFMH) developed a program that helps workplaces large and small to support a mentally healthy workforce.

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Skin Care + Sun Awareness

Your skin is good to you. Be good to your skin, and reduce your risk of cancer

It’s the miraculous organ that defines the way we look to others, provides our essential sense of touch and forms a protective barrier between us and a sometimes harsh world. Doesn’t it make sense to return the kindness? A few easy, precautionary steps can save our skin from unnecessary aging – even cancer.

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Earth Day

Building a greener future for Earth Days to come requires commitment from individuals, businesses and governments on actions large and small. Mobilizing the power of our investments and introducing the next generation to the importance of the natural environment are just two of many initiatives gaining momentum in the effort to take action on climate change.

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Deepening connections

The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region wields impressive economic and demographic clout, but experts urge that collaboration and strong partnerships are critical to sustained prosperity.

Half a million cars roll off the assembly lines each year at the southern Ontario plants of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. Over the last three decades, this manufacturing facility in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region has grown from a small plant making only 50,000 cars a year into Toyota’s second-largest factory in the world.

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Reach across generational divide and “own your age” to help end ageism

At her installation as the chancellor of Sheridan College last year, renowned long-term former Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion said, “I think 95 is a good age to start a new job.” And why not? In a time of octogenarian triathletes and nonagenarian marathoners, it’s worth asking why it’s still a surprise when an elder chooses an active, influential life.

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‘I wouldn’t be the athlete I am today without Crohn’s disease’

Anyone who watched Alyxandria Treasure clear a 1.94-metre crossbar to advance to the high jump finals at the Rio Olympics would have seen an extraordinarily fit and healthy young woman. Understanding more about the challenges she had to overcome along the path towards this performance only deepens the appreciation for the Canadian athlete’s accomplishments.

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Ready for liftoff?

It’s now more than a quarter century since the first exchange-traded fund launched in Canada, an event many market watchers assumed signalled the beginning of an inevitable, rapid disruption of the fund industry. Surely, the thinking went, making low-cost, tax-efficient investment diversification available to Canadians everywhere on the wealth spectrum would change everything.

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Harnessing the multigenerational advantage

With an estimated 60 per cent contribution to the GDP, family businesses are a vital cornerstone of Canada’s economy. They generate job growth, make significant philanthropic contributions and continue to outperform their non-family business counterparts on many parameters. Yet in the coming decade, a high number of family enterprises face a significant challenge when Canada’s boomer retires.

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Ambitious program aims to prepare young Canadians for global tech opportunities

As Canadians prepare to celebrate the country’s 150th birthday in 2017, one group is already looking ahead to the bicentennial and developing strategies to help ensure that future generations are prepared for the challenges of a rapidly changing world defined by technology and science.

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The power of inclusion

It may be 2017, but according to a recent Minerva Foundation report, it will take another 75 years at today’s rate of change to close the earnings gap between men and women. Compared to the rest of the world, most western women are immensely privileged – yet 108 years after the first Women’s Day event was held in New York City, Canadian women earn 72 cents for each dollar a man earns for similar full-time work. 

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Industry input enables timely response to changing conditions

While greening post-secondary institutions takes many forms across the country, colleges and institutes have a unique approach: they utilize a feedback loop to – and from – industry as a reality check, says Rod Miller, associate vice-president, corporate training solutions at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT).

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Going green

Moving towards sustainability goals by greening Canada’s colleges and institutes

Judging by the number of green initiatives and innovations, Canada’s colleges and institutes appear determined to show the world they are fertile ground for furthering environmental sustainability. Their green activities are varied and diverse, affecting the curriculum, areas of research, campus management and community outreach, says Denise Amyot, president and CEO of Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan).

 

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Specialty brews boost coffee sales in Canada

Coffee, Canada’s go-to drink, has become a multi-billion-dollar industry spurred on by increasingly adventurous consumers looking for new taste challenges

Innovation is driving the growth of Canada’s $6.2-billion coffee industry with specialty coffees, new preparation methods and technology helping lift sales to new heights, according to Lesya Balych-Cooper, president of the Coffee Association of Canada (CAC).

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