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CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 1

CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 1. 15 FUTURE SHOP AND BEST BUY STORES TO BE CLOSED http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/12/24/business-online-shopping.html?autoplay=true.

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CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 1

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  1. CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 1 15 FUTURE SHOP AND BEST BUY STORES TO BE CLOSED http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/12/24/business-online-shopping.html?autoplay=true • Best Buy Canada plans to close seven of its big box locations across Canada and close eight Future Shop stores across the country. • As many as 900 jobs could be affected, or roughly five per cent of the company's Canadian work force. • The company told CBC News employees affected by the closures will receive severance support as well as access to employee assistance programs and career transition support. • A company spokesperson said all gift cards and repair contracts from closed stores will be honoured at other locations.

  2. CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 1 • Best Buy had announced last March, that it was closing 50 stores in the U.S. The company posted mediocre holiday sales. • Best Buy said the store closures are part of an ongoing restructuring plan that will see the chain re-open a number of small-concept web stores and mobile kiosks over the next three years. Best Buy Canada Ltd. operates 139 Future Shop stores and 58 Best Buy Canada stores across the country. http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2331068681/

  3. CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 1 7 OBESITY MYTHS SHATTERED • Many widely held beliefs about weight loss don't stand up to scientific scrutiny, say doctors who want to set the public health record straight on myths like the calorie-burning benefits of sex or the value of eating breakfast. • In Wednesday's online issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, U.S. doctors tackle seven obesity-related myths commonly found in the media and material from government agencies as well as six presumptions thought to be true despite a lack of convincing evidence. • http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/01/30/obesity-weight-loss-myths.html

  4. CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 1 • The myths were: • Small sustained changes in energy intake or expenditure will produce large, long-term weight changes. • Setting realistic goals in obesity treatment is important, because otherwise patients will become frustrated and lose less weight. • Large, rapid weight loss is associated with poorer long-term weight outcomes than is slow, gradual weight loss. • Assessing the stage of change of diet readiness is important in helping patients who seek weight-loss treatment.

  5. CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 1 • The myths were: • Physical-education classes in their current format play an important role in preventing or reducing childhood obesity. • Breastfeeding is protective against obesity. • A bout of sexual activity burns 100 to 300 calories for each person involved. Randomized control trials do not support that snacking contributes to weight gain but the type and size of snacks matter.

  6. CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 1 • The myths were based on sources such as national health guidelines and studies from the 1960s of very-low-calorie diets. • The researchers also tackled six presumptions including the purported benefits of regularly eating breakfast, eating fruits and vegetables, snacking and yo-yo dieting, also called weight cycling. • Both experts stressed what works for weight loss varies between individuals. A host of factors like other medical conditions, sleep and medications all need to be considered when assessing and planning weight loss.

  7. CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 1 ELECTIONS ALBERTA ORDERS ILLEGAL DONATIONS TO PCS RETURNED • Elections Alberta has fined dozens of municipalities, universities and colleges for making illegal donations to the Progressive Conservative party. • On Thursday, Alberta's chief electoral officer announced fines ranging from $18.75 to $850 in 45 cases of illegal donations in 2010 and 2011. • "No one is pleased to be on this list," said chief electoral officer Brian Fjeldheim. "I think this will do a great deal to certainly lessen, and likely stop, a lot of this sort of thing."

  8. CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 1 • The Elections Accountability Act only allows Fjeldheim to disclose illegal donations to a political party after Dec. 10, 2009. • While opposition parties proposed that disclosure go back seven years, the Progressive Conservatives voted down the amendment. The law now allows Alberta's Chief Electoral Officer Brian Fjeldheim to identify parties found to have made illegal political donations. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2013/01/30/edmonton-elections-alberta-illegal-political-donations.html

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