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January 8, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Your House Is Not A Retirement Plan (Here's Why) Investors hear it all the time: real estate is a sure thing. Or, at least, it's as close to a sure thing as can be expected; safer than going for a white-knuckle ride on the stock market and seemingly simpler than muddling around with bonds and RRSPs. Continue reading... Rogers Shut Down My Parody Twitter Account, Man Claims Goldman Sachs Caught Red-Handed Awesome Amazon Feature Finally Arrives In Canada 10 Cars So Hot They're Out Of Stock: 24/7 Wall St. Amazon 2-Day Shipping: Canada To Get 'Prime' Service For $79 Per Year New $20 Bills: Plastic Notes Still Not Working In Many Vending Machines 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... ROBERT REDFORD Another Looming Cliff of Grave Consequence This is a time for climate leadership. So, instead of a shoddy Keystone XL environmental review, the first major climate action for this Administration's second term should be to set limits on climate change pollution from power plants. That is the kind of action that makes sense. Continue reading... RAYMOND J. LEARSY OPEC's Massive $1 Trillion Haul in 2012 While Sowing Jihad This torrent of money flowing into OPEC, especially into the Persian Gulf States, raises the question how this massive windfall is being put to use other than providing fresh capital for the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, as those of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.