Canadians' Financial Stress.. Housing Starts Cool Down.. Robots Taking Over The World?

January 9, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Looming Financial Deadline Has Canadians Stressed Out: Study MONTREAL - Canadians who are stressed about the annual RRSP deadline are not alone according to a new study that found 60 per cent of respondents feel anxious about coming up with the money for their retirement savings.  Continue reading... Housing Starts Dip But Still Surprise Economists TransCanada To Tackle $5 Billion Natural Gas Project 15 Countries Where Robots Are Taking Over Amazon 2-Day Shipping: Canada To Get 'Prime' Service For $79 Per Year Cooling House Market Could Undercut Retirement Plans Rogers Twitter 'Parody' Account Suspended: David Doel Denies @RogersNoHelp Impersonated Telecom Giant (UPDATE) 15 Countries Where Robots Are Taking Over The Workforce Online Spying Bill: Privacy Czar Tries To Broker Internet Surveillance Compromise Hebron Offshore Oil Project: ExxonMobil Says It's Going Ahead With $14-Billion Development Income Inequality In Canada: Ed Broadbent Wants To Give Tories 'A Good Shake' Housing Market Forecast: Royal LePage Says Downturn Will Be Mild JEFFREY RUBIN How Big is Canada's Oil Subsidy to the U.S.? Before rushing ahead to double oil sands production -- and sending billions more in de facto energy subsidies to U.S. refiners -- Canadians may be better off if producers figure out how to capture more value from what they're already digging out of the ground. Continue reading... MITCH JOEL The Future of Advertising: Messages on Your Toaster? Everything is getting connected to the Internet. From your toaster and home thermometer to your fridge and your car. As these appliances do "come online," can you even begin to imagine the media opportunities that arise from such a wealth of human information? Continue reading... ARIANNA HUFFINGTON CES 2013, GPS for the Soul and the Digital Health Revolution Greetings from Las Vegas, where I've landed in the midst of a perfect storm for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The main elements of this perfect storm are disruptive technology, our dysfunctional health care system, and the growing desire people have to take control of their own health and well-being. And it's powered by our growing awareness of the destructive power and tremendous cost of stress in our lives. That's why HuffPost is rolling out GPS for the Soul, a new app that's part of our comprehensive lifestyle coverage around the theme "Less Stress, More Living." And it's why this year's CES has the potential to be one of the most transformative ever. There's a significant change in attitude about what role technology can, and should, be playing in our lives -- from the growing prevalence of mindfulness practices in the workplace to the robust market of wearable devices providing biofeedback. Here's hoping the perfect storm on display this week in Las Vegas leads to sunnier days everywhere. Continue reading... ZIYAAD MIA The Treatment of Farm Animals Will Make You Squeal Recently CTV's W5 aired an episode called "Food for Thought." The video shows pigs with open wounds living confined in tight gestation stalls, piglets being castrated without anesthetic and piglets killed with blunt force trauma. The hard truth is that much of what the video reveals is likely standard industry practice and not in violation of federal or provincial law. Continue reading... RAPHAEL LOPOUKHINE Northern Gateway Is The Wrong Fight The proposed Northern Gateway pipeline carrying raw bitumen to the B.C. coast is a bad idea, but it's ultimately the wrong fight. Let's assume the momentum of bringing Enbridge to its knees leads to a mass protest across Canada and all the proposed pipelines are stopped. Oil companies still have other options. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.