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With Winn Dixie Gas incentives when you  buy groceries we were able to save another $.45 a gallon  so that's $2.21 or $.55 a litre in Canada. I think we payed about $1.30 a  litre when we last filled up.

PUP's Can Be Dangerous

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Auslogics Disk De=Frag Program

Hold that order !!!!

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   How long it really takes to burn your food off Hold that order! Before you take a sip of that large chocolate milkshake, if you knew you'd have to put in a 16 km walk to burn off the calories, would you still indulge? And chew on this: Would you gobble down that donut if you had to walk 3.2 km to burn off the calories? Seems that seeing calorie counts don't phase us but actually translating that into exercise can turn a few stomachs. Restaurant goers are likely to make healthier food choices if mileage is put on the menu and they know the amount of exercise it takes to lose what they consume. When faced with a food-ordering decision such as that at a fast food restaurant or cafeteria line, we believe physical activity food labelling may nudge people to select foods with fewer calories. It may have the added benefit of encouraging physical activity Face it, eating out often ends up with nutritional caution being thrown to the wind and excess calories being consu

Ontario Health Care System - Did You Know?

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  Canada's hospitals are not for rich foreign patients, evidently we have a loophole in our vaunted Ontario Health Care System The issue snuck up doctors, nurses and therapists. Without consulting them, hospital executives began marketing expensive medical procedures to international patients. Unlike Ontarians, they paid full price. But they were whisked to the front of the line, while OHIP patients waited. At first, the front-line health workers thought Canada was following its humanitarian tradition. But they soon realized these patients were not needy. They were being admitted in some cases solicited to generate revenue. One of the first to sound the alarm was Pierre La-plante, a registered nurse in the orthopedic wing of Toronto Western Hospital. In spring of 2012, he and his colleagues were dislodged from their nurses lounge to accomodate an influx of Libyan patients. The staff was told they were injured in the civil war in that country. The Libyan government had