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Practical tips and trends to help you live better from Shopper's Voice and the Shop Talk community.

Health spotlight: 4 ways to protect your eyes from blue light

  The average Canadian spends seven hours a day in front of computer screens, smartphones, tablets and e-books, and the blue light these devices emit can cause vision damage, sleep disruption and other problems. Why is blue light a problem? While sunlight also contains blue light it’s what helps us stay awake and alert during […]

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5 pet trends for the dogs and cats that have everything

  As Canadians, we spend nearly $9 billion a year on our pets including food, supplies, veterinary care and live animal purchases and that number is only slated to rise as we continue to pamper the dogs, cats and other animals that are part of families, and a handful of pet trends gain wider popularity. […]

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Food spotlight: Basque in one of the world’s most fascinating cultures

The Basque people, who live in a semi-autonomous region of northern Spain as well as in southwestern France, are believed to be the direct descendants of farmers who settled in the area some 35,000 years ago, making them perhaps the oldest ethnic community in Europe. Their language, called Euskara, is unrelated to any other language […]

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