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What are the laws for real estate contracts and mental health?

With Mental Health Week coming to a close, conversations around mental health in the industry will create a more supportive environment, says the CEO of the BC Real Estate Association. Understanding the intersection of mental health, mental capacity and its impact on real estate contracts is a pertinent issue for any real estate agent in BC As the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Mental Health Week comes to a close, and Mental Health Month begins in the US, one Vancouver-based lawyer is highlighting the intricacies of how to determine a person’s capacity to enter a contract that can impact real estate.…
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The vicious cycle of food and sleep

The future, my mom used to say, belongs to those who wake up early. L’avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt. She’d say this as we drove to early ice skating practices on those cold winter mornings growing up in Quebec. As it turns out, science may be proving her right — though perhaps not in exactly the way she thought. I am a researcher who specializes in understanding the links between diet, sleep and health. Up until around 2014, my lab focused on examining how too little sleep affects obesity. Our work showed that reducing sleep by about…
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How to Encourage Healthy Eating in the Workplace

As professionals, we all strive to achieve success in our careers. However, with busy schedules, high-stress environments, and a fast-paced work-life, it can be challenging to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Making healthy food choices is an essential part of maintaining good health and well-being. But, how do we encourage healthy eating habits in the workplace? Provide Healthy Food OptionsProviding healthy food options is an effective way to encourage healthy eating habits in the workplace. Stock up on healthy snacks like fruits, vegetables, nuts, and whole-grain crackers. Consider providing healthy breakfast options such as low-fat yogurt, oatmeal, and whole-grain bread for…
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Ballooning cost of insuring undocumented immigrants complicating Illinois budget negotiations

CHICAGO — The $49.6 billion budget Gov. J.B. Pritzker introduced in February estimated the cost of a program that provides state-funded health insurance to adult immigrants who are in the country without legal permission at $220 million. [–Just three months later, that estimate has grown fivefold, swelling to $1.1 billion and threatening to blow a hole in the Democratic governor’s proposal for the budget year that begins July 1, the first of his second term. [–At the same time, revenue flowing to the state appears to be slowing, putting further pressure on Pritzker and the Democratic-controlled legislature as…
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Cancer survivor hospitalized after the acupuncturist promised to regrow thyroid if he stopped taking meds

Seventeen years after SK lost his thyroid gland to cancer, he was promised a miracle: acupuncture could regrow the vital organs. Kyung Chun Oh, an acupuncturist based in the Toronto area, claimed he’d performed this wonder before, according to a recent decision from the College Of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of Ontario. But Oh told his patient it would only work if SK stopped the thyroid medication he’d been on since his surgery in 2003. Within just a few months of his first visit to Oh, SK, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, was admitted to…