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All ingredients must be organic

All ingredients must be organic

Ensuring organic integrity for organic meat products from farm to plate

Until very recently, organic meat was only really available in the refrigerated meat section of the grocery store. There’s a reason for that. Creating ready-to-eat products for the everyday shopper that include organic meat as an ingredient is more complex than you may think. For Yorkshire Valley Farms, a leading Canadian organic poultry producer, raising organic poultry and bringing it to market are as much a labour of love as a business enterprise. “A lot of people don’t understand the many layers and complexities of the organic system and all the things that need to be done to maintain its integrity,” says Krysten Cooper, director of Corporate Strategy and Sustainability. “The organic chain of command is meticulously managed at all steps.”

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Health, Life, EducationRandallAnthony CommunicationsSeptember 7, 2018Featured, Feature

Can the organic sector’s strengths advance national food policy goals?

Can the organic sector’s strengths advance national food policy goals?

Fall signals the beginning of the harvest season for farmers across Canada in a year that has been unpredictable and challenging for many producers and businesses in light of trade tariffs and tough NAFTA negotiations. Yet this fall also marks the beginning of a new chapter with the government’s forthcoming announcement of Canada’s first national food policy.

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Life, HealthRandallAnthony CommunicationsSeptember 7, 2018Featured, Feature

Leading, designing and delivering care and services for seniors

Leading, designing and delivering care and services for seniors

Encouraged by qualitative research that shows art may be one of the ways to engage people living with dementia, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle are partnering in a study to explore ways to integrate this new knowledge into large care systems.

Health, LifeRandallAnthony CommunicationsJune 25, 2018Featured

Tackling common misconceptions to promote sun-safe behaviour

Tackling common misconceptions to promote sun-safe behaviour

Long and sunny summer days tend to promise opportunities for leisure and play. Yet when it comes to sun protection, people can be too relaxed. Many only pack the sunscreen on days when they’re heading to the beach. And once they have a tan, 60 per cent say they are not as diligent about sunscreen or forgo it entirely.

HealthRandallAnthony CommunicationsJune 12, 2018Featured

Pangnirtung’s champions

Pangnirtung’s champions

The Baffin Island settlement of Pangnirtung, 50 km south of the Arctic Circle, has its own superhero – Marvel Comics’ Amka Aliyak, a.k.a. Snowguard – but the Nunavut community’s real champions are members of the Inuit Ilagiit Society (IIS), a service organization serving the 1,500 residents.

LifeRandallAnthony CommunicationsJune 1, 2018Featured

The impact of Canadian Philanthropy

The impact of Canadian Philanthropy

Canadians are more confident than ever in the country’s charitable sector and demonstrated their support with a significant increase last year in the number of people making donations, according to the 2018 What Canadian Donors Want Survey.

LifeRandallAnthony CommunicationsJune 1, 2018Featured, Feature

STEP Canada

STEP Canada

Providing professional training and accreditation for 20 years
According to the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), changing tax laws and the growing complexity of estate planning are prompting more Canadians than ever to seek professional guidance.

BusinessRandallAnthony CommunicationsMay 29, 2018Featured

Sustainability

Sustainability

Speedier transition needed to achieve clean energy’s full potential
With the world’s population on track to reach 10 billion by 2050, the drive towards a more sustainable global economy has become an imperative. Arguably, few people recognize that imperative more than University of British Columbia (UBC) professor Walter Mérida.

Innovation, BusinessRandallAnthony CommunicationsMay 28, 2018Featured

Engineering in Canada

Engineering in Canada

A new type of engineer is needed to deal with the challenges of a rapidly changing world, and universities and faculties must urgently adapt their training to meet this demand, says the new head of Polytechnique Montreal.

BusinessRandallAnthony CommunicationsMay 23, 2018Featured

Innovation & Technology

Innovation & Technology

Ushering breakthrough inventions out of the lab and into the market
When the Canadian team Ionomr recently won the Start Up Energy Transition (SET) award in Berlin, the competition’s congratulatory tweet noted that Ionomr’s “disruptive and revolutionary membrane technology offers to turn the energy world itself upside down.”

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InnovationRandallAnthony CommunicationsMay 15, 2018Featured

Home Renovations

Home Renovations

To avoid reno pitfalls, plan ahead
A combination of steeply rising prices and lack of supply in many markets is forcing a growing number of Canadians who need more living space to consider renovating their existing homes rather than selling and buying a bigger house.

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Life, MortgageRandallAnthony CommunicationsMay 15, 2018Featured

Cities of the Future

Cities of the Future

Collaborations leveraging data for better decision-making
What will future cities look like? Will they consist of green buildings, autonomous vehicles and garbage robots? And more importantly, can technologies and data be harnessed for improving quality of life?

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Business, LifeRandallAnthony CommunicationsMay 9, 2018Featured, Feature

Healthy Minds

Healthy Minds

Highlighting ‘what mental health really is’ during Mental Health Week

We often automatically say “fine” when someone at work asks how we are. Yet the same question can trigger a more meaningful exchange – one that acknowledges how we truly feel and whether we reach out when we need support. What are some of the conditions that are conducive to opening up at our place of work on days when we’re not feeling like ourselves?

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Life, HealthRandallAnthony CommunicationsMay 7, 2018Featured

Looking ahead to affordable medicines for all Canadians

Looking ahead to affordable medicines for all Canadians

The Canadian life and health insurance industry welcomes the renewed focus on finding a way to ensure that all Canadians can get access to affordable prescription drugs. We strongly support the need for comprehensive reform so that Canadians can have access to medicines and, equally importantly, Canada’s prescription drug system is put back on a secure financial footing for the foreseeable future.

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Health, LifeRandallAnthony CommunicationsApril 30, 2018Featured, Feature

Addressing key industry challenges with innovation and focus on customer

Addressing key industry challenges with innovation and focus on customer

At a time when society is INCREASINGLY IMPACTED by changing demographics, rapidly evolving technology, climate change and a competitive environment, the insurance industry is charged with responding to new realities, expectations and risks.

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RandallAnthony CommunicationsApril 27, 2018

Legal Innovation

Legal Innovation

Changing the traditional service model

New business models are disrupting the global legal services landscape as companies find different and more cost-effective ways to access services, and lawyers discover the personal and professional benefits of having control over the types of work they do.

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BusinessRandallAnthony CommunicationsApril 24, 2018Featured

Oral Health

Oral Health

Maintaining good oral health practices are important at every age and stage of life

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HealthRandallAnthony CommunicationsApril 23, 2018Featured

Gastrointestinal Health

Gastrointestinal Health

‘Not just a bathroom disease’ – timely treatment and awareness improving outcomes for people with inflammatory bowel disease

As a flight attendant, Adam Polak was flying high with a job he loved when a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis brought him down. “I love everything about being a flight attendant,” he says.

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HealthRandallAnthony CommunicationsApril 23, 2018Featured

Aging

Aging

Older adults at risk of experiencing harm related to substance use

When a 24-year-old person walks into a doctor’s office appearing confused, agitated or tired, the physician will know something is amiss and will explore the potential that this person has consumed drugs. But there is a good chance that the same symptoms will not raise red flags for a 74-year-old patient. In addition, an older adult’s dwindling social circle can increase the risk of challenges related to substance use going unnoticed.

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Health, LifeRandallAnthony CommunicationsApril 16, 2018Featured, Feature

Mortgages

Mortgages

Wanted: Elegant solutions for complex market challenges

If Canada has a “national dream,” it is this: Canadians want a home to call their own. Yet from the looks of it, governments are doing their best to make it much harder to achieve that goal.

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MortgageRandallAnthony CommunicationsApril 16, 2018Featured