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NewsWatch targets top 25 under-reported news stories
NewsWatch Canada says secretive trade negotiations involving Canada, abusive mining companies violating human rights, and corporate lobbyists’ shaping laws and regulations are the most important under-reported stories in Canada this year. The independent research group, based in Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication, has just published its 2011 top 25 list of the most important stories under-reported [...]
Cooking Light’s 12 Healthy Habits Program
Forget the grandiose, impossible New Year’s resolutions: The path to a healthier lifestyle begins one little habit at a time. Welcome to our 12 Healthy Habits program: Each month this year we’ll focus on one healthy practice that you’re probably already doing but want to do a bit more (usually food-related, but [...]
The Risks of Anti-Aging Medicine
She never did grow old. Six months later, in 2004, she was dead, her liver full of malignant tumors. While it is impossible to prove that HGH therapy contributed to Hops’s death, the use of HGH has been linked to an increased risk of cancer. (Dr. Mintz said at the [...]
Global Leaders Call On Canada To Fight Climate Change In New Ad
African leaders including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jay Naidoo of former President Nelson Mandela’s cabinet, and Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, on Wednesday released an ad calling on Canada to step up the battle against global warming, rather than actively promote the use of its tar [...]
What Emotional Intelligence Is and Is Not
Does emotional intelligence exist – and if so, is it of any importance? It first helps to know what emotional intelligence is and is not. What Emotional Intelligence Is My colleague Peter Salovey (now Provost of Yale University) and I introduced the theory of EI and a demonstration of how it might be measured in two 1990 [...]
2011 important but most underreported stories by media
Canadian companies, an international agreement and care for the elderly are targeted on NewsWatch Canada’s 2011 list of the 25 top important most underreported stories by media nationally. The media watchdog group, based in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, will release its annual report at a presentation on Wed., Nov. 30, 1:30 p.m. at SFU’s Burnaby [...]
Eurozone Crisis Threatens Global Economy
As a breakup of the eurozone — a once seemingly impossible scenario — becomes increasingly likely, economists are starting to sketch out what a post-euro world would look like. Many are warning that if political leaders don’t change course, a breakup of the eurozone would plunge the United States and the rest [...]
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