While
you might not want to hear it, the snowy season is right around the
corner and now is the time to get your vehicle winter-ready.
Gary
Howard of the Canadian Automobile Association says a good rule of thumb
for when to put on winter tires is when the temperature outside starts
to dip below seven degrees. He tells Tide News that's because those
types of temperatures tend to bring a risk of frost. However, any
earlier and you could risk wearing the tread unevenly.
Howard warns people not to mix and match their tires. He says that's like wearing a sneaker and boot—you will have very inconsistent performance, and it can actually be more dangerous than having all of the same tires.
As for
all-weather tires? He says they are okay if you live in a temperate
climate like in British Columbia, but not here, where we get a lot of
snow.
It
appears to be just a matter of time before our medical records will all
be digital. That's appears to be the desire of most of us, according to a
new poll by Harris/Decima. It finds 96 per cent of Canadians think it
important that the health care system go digital.
Infoway
Vice-President Shelagh Maloney tells Tide News people nowadays want to
have more control over their health by having as much information as
possible.
89 per cent of the respondents say it's important for them to have full advantage of digital health tools and capabilities.
Maloney
adds 64 per cent of doctors have an electronic medical record and 86 per
cent of those people surveyed say it's important for their doctors to
use digital medical records.
More
salads and dips produced by Reser’s Fine Foods are being recalled. The
Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the latest recall is being issued
because the food might be contaminated with Listeria.
This is the third such recall of Reser’s Fine Foods products since October 5th.
The
newest one includes various potato salads, macaroni salads, creamy
spinach dip and cole slaws, all with best before dates between October
10th and November 27th.
Some of the products are also sold under the brand name "Market Pantry".
There were no slip-ups off the ice at Skate Canada International, the performance behind the scenes went just as planned.
That
word coming from Cynthia Benson, the co-chair of the local organizing
committee during the finale of the event at Harbour Station that began
on Thursday.
Benson
tells Tide News there was a huge turnout and there has been general
sense of excitement in the air over the past few days. And that sense of
enthusiasm that wasn't lost on the athletes visiting the city who she
says loved the crowds, and the standing ovations that they gave.
She says
the event gave Saint Johners the rare opportunity to check out
world-class skaters perform in the pre-Olympic season, adding, it's not
every day people living in the city walk past Olympic athletes in the
pedway.
Benson says they are hoping the event returns to the Port City.
More and
more stories are emerging as some MP's and now Senators complain about
the power of unelected people in the Prime Minister's office to tell
them what to do, what to say and how to vote.
Political
Science Professor Don Desserud tells Tide News this is far removed from
the vision of how Parliament was supposed to operate but the power of
the P-M-O had been growing long before Prime Minister Harper assumed
office.
Alberta
MP Brent Rathgeber says one reason he quit the Conservative caucus was
he could no longer stomach being told what to do and say by unelected
youngsters in the Prime Minister’s Office. Former federal cabinet
minister Peter Kent called some of the actions of the P-M-O "juvenile".
The
Senate will continue debating this week whether or not to suspend
Senators Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau without pay after
a lot of drama last week complete with accusations of backroom deals.
New
Brunswick born Senator Jim Munson worked in the P-M-O under Prime
Minister Chretien and tells Tide News keeping the P-M away from the
niity gritty to give him plausible deniability is not all that far
fetched because it's the job of the political staffers to protect their
boss from the whiff of scandal.
Having said that, Munson says there's little doubt the P-M would know what the issue was about.
Munson,
who has been in the Senate for 10 years, does say it has become more
politically divisive and he blames Prime Minister Harper for stacking it
with his appointees, some of whom complain about being told how to vote
by unelected people in the P-M-O.
