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Does driving school lower insurance for Canadian drivers? Nov 16th
When you’re a new driver, insurance companies view you as being at higher risk of accidents than someone who’s been on the road for several decades. The risk of collision is highest within the first year a driver is on the road, and it decreases as drivers gain more experience. As a result, new .... More »
Your FHSA timeline: What to invest in and when Nov 29th
Before you make an offer to buy your first home, you’ll have to determine your budget and save up enough money for a down payment (typically about 20% of the home’s value). That’s probably going to be a good chunk of change—Canada’s housing market is expensive, and if you put down less tha.... More »
BMO Ascend World Elite Mastercard review May 3rd
If you’re itching to travel again, BMO has a card designed to help you get there. With an attractive insurance package and perks like airport lounge access, the BMO Ascend World Elite Mastercard seeks to tempt users into the BMO Rewards program. But here’s the big question: Is the card good enou.... More »
How to stake Cardano (ADA) in Canada + MORE Nov 12th
Like other cryptocurrencies, ADA, the native coin of the Cardano blockchain, has been in a bear market since October 2021—meaning a recent pattern of price declines. Despite this downturn in crypto prices, Cardano seems to be a strong player among the public blockchains that offer smart contract f.... More »
How to buy a car in Canada and get the best loan rate Nov 28th
You’ve read the car reviews, done the research and scoured for hours through literature on that car or truck, all while lining up pros, cons, rankings and specs against your budget and wants. You’ve shortlisted the contenders that you most want to press the gas on. That’s it: you’re buying a.... More »
Inside the Trillion-Dollar Wellness Industry
– canadianbusiness.com
As a health-and-wellness-industry reporter for publications like Fast Company and The New York Times, Rina Raphael spent years covering fitness, food and far-out trends. (Crystal healing, anyone?) But by her mid-30s, she realized her obsession with health was making her feel worse, not better. These experiences were the catalyst for her book, The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care, which came out in September. In it, Raphael analyzes the US$4.4-trillion wellness industry, which includes everything from fitness and nutrition to vibrators and athleisure. While sometimes helpful, the industry puts pressure on women in particular, she says, to shop and sweat their way to happiness only to trap them on a treadmill of endless self-improvement.
First of all, what counts as “wellness”? It seems like there’s a lot under that umbrella.
A general definition is that wellness is everything that medicine and insurance don’t really touch. But the problem is that it’s evolved into a marketing term that can just as easily mean “charcoal toothpaste” as “meditation,” so it’s really ambiguous now…
