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“Feel the burn, juice, fast, organic, fresh, high intensity, low intensity, meditate, mindfulness…sleep.”

Wow! How do you know what “healthy” looks or feels like? Well, part of the answer is paying atten-tion to your body and your thoughts. Awareness

is the key to finding answers to almost any problem, including those involving your financial wellness.

Are you aware of your financial health and do you schedule a financial checkup every year? Consider your household like a business and annually review your financial performance for optimal financial health.

Here are a few tips to help you complete a financial checkup each year.

1. Net Worth: Do you know what net worth means? Are

you managing your debt? Are your assets growing? If your net worth has dropped do you know why? A simple net worth statement reviewed annually is a great visual of your financial health - not unlike blood pressure and pulse readings of your body.

2. Review your insurance program: An annual review

of your auto, home, life, disability and critical ill-ness coverage is especially important if you’ve ex-perienced a major life event. Are your beneficiary designations up to date? You can also consider small modifications like raising deductibles, or maybe you qualify for discounts that can save you money.

3. Manage your spending: Do you spend more than you earn? Do you know where your money goes and why? Do you have numerous credit cards that are costing you money and are just too easy to use? Do you find yourself impulsively buying things you don’t really need? If you often say, “Where does all the money go?” it may be time for a financial checkup.

4. Does your money work hard for you? There are only two ways to make money. You work hard for your money and/or your money works hard for you. Do you regularly save a percentage of your income? Do you know how your money is invested? Do you reg-ularly review your investments and do your invest-ments match your financial goals and risk tolerance?

5. Estate Plan: Do you have a will and powers of at-torney? Do you know what happens if you die with-out a will? It’s essential to have these documents reviewed and updated if you’ve experienced a major life event such as a death in the family or a divorce. Perhaps your family is growing and you’ve had a baby or two. Your will speaks for you after you die. Don’t die without a voice.

6. Financial Goals: Your lifestyle will impact your money goals. What activities do you enjoy? Where do you live and why? What makes you happy? Do you have a plan? It can help to seek professional ad-vice so you know you’re on the right track. Planning will relieve stress about money. Planned financial goals can make you happier and healthier, and isn’t

that always the goal?

Like most people, you probably take the time to see your dentist and your doctor for regular checkups. If you take the time to also complete a financial checkup each year, not only will you improve your financial health, but you just might also feel healthier and happier too. You take control of your money and your health by increasing your awareness, so take a temperature check of your money regularly.

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Where did 2014 go? It seems like yesterday I sat in the same spot writing my New

Year editorial for the last Winter/Spring 2014 Newcastle edition. Some of you will be happy to see this year gone due to circumstances. I know I will, but I am taking with me lessons that have taught me to make choices that will endure and will help me pre-pare for the upcoming year. There is always another way to look at expe-riences, good or bad. If you dig deep enough, there is positive in all we do. It may not come forth until later, but all good is recognised on some level. All bad experiences do make us stronger because we survived.

Survival is one way of looking at the theme of this edition. Enjoy the

Health Feature that was contributed by my expert advertisers. We have covered just about everything from head to toe.

I am also very proud to include a sto-ry of British Home Children which is very near and dear to my heart. My pa-ternal grandfather was a Home Child. He and some of his siblings endured a life that most of us could not survive. He was shuffled from the only home he knew in England, onto a large ship,

and set sail for Canada. He said good-bye to his family that stayed behind, and looked beyond the seas with trep-idation and excitement for all he was promised. When he arrived here, he learned very quickly the promise of a better life was only words.

He fought through the experience only to be drafted to join WWII. He came home to his wife and child (my father) with a lifetime of experiences full of pain and fear. My grandfather, George Maddock, continued his life with his family without complaint or discussion about what he had survived. He is a hero and I am proudly a descen-dant of a British Home Child.

Dedicated to my grandfather, George Maddock

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Q. Is Yoga comparable to weight training?2. Although the end results of Yoga and

weight training are increased muscle

tone, lean muscle tissue and strength, the process is very different. Weight training focuses only on the physical, whereas Yoga aims to unite mind and body, using your breath to move, and therefore being a very mindful form of exercise. There is little chance of injury in Yoga if you have a qualified teacher, whereas in weight training there is a greater risk of sprains and strains if done incorrectly. It is very difficult to “overdo it” in Yoga. Yoga aims at strengthening the deep core muscles first, resulting in definition. Weight training focuses more on the superficial muscles.

Q. Does Yoga help with medical/physi-cal ailments?

3. Although Yoga is no substitute for medical intervention when needed, it is a fantastic way to promote a healthy lifestyle. Yoga is a great way to reduce pain and resolve injury. It is also a great form of injury prevention. Yoga helps to strengthen and heal the muscular and skeletal systems of the body. The practice of Yoga has several movements

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Some health conditions can cause problems with the eyes such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol, stroke and arthritis just to name a few.

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The number one reason for failure is ignorance. Not ignorance in the sense of naïve disillusionment but rather a mis-informed understanding of how to deal with the situation. Speaking from per-sonal experience as a hearing aid wearer, I’ve found that a number of clinics do not take the time to properly explain reasonable expectations. Even worse they tend to rush through the “sales

pitch” instead of customizing the selec-tion process to narrow down the devices that are appropriate for the specific user. Not everyone leads the same lifestyle and therefore the devices that are select-ed for one person are not appropriate for all. Some people have arthritis and

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It is imperative that people under-stand they are only capable of providing what the name implies. They are able to AID your hearing. They are neither able to fix nor restore a person’s hearing back to a “normal” state, instead provide the assistance required to perform better in any given situation. That being said, today’s technology allows them to do an excellent job at aiding compared with yesterday’s devices.

It is true that hearing aids can be quite expensive and people often ask why they should spend the money on as-sistive devices which cannot restore nor-mal hearing when they are able to get by without using them. The answer can be nicely summed up by a study released by John Hopkins University which linked untreated hearing loss with early onset Alzheimer’s and Dementia. The study showed that there is a sequence of events which slows down your ability to process sound and therefore have a det-rimental effect on your comprehension of speech. Untreated hearing loss actu-ally shrinks the auditory portion of the brain which also contains a portion of memory function. That means that early intervention of hearing loss is as much a preventative measure as it is an assistive measure.

“The study also gives some urgency to treating hearing loss rather than ig-noring it. ‘If you want to address hearing loss well,’ (Frank Lin, M.D., Ph.D.) says, ‘you want to do it sooner rather than lat-er. If hearing loss is potentially contrib-uting to these differences we’re seeing on MRI, you want to treat it before these brain structural changes take place.’

Most importantly you must wear them! It takes 6-9 months of 12 hours per day usage to maximize the full ben-efit. Purchasing but not wearing just doesn’t make much sense does it?

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British Home Children… their life…their legacy

From the late 1860’s right up to 1948, 118,000 children of all ages were emigrated right across

Canada to be used as inden-tured farm workers and domes-tics. They were believed by Ca-nadians to be orphans, but only two percent truly were. These children were sent to Canada by over 50 organizations, including the well-known and still-work-ing charities: Barnardo’s, The Salvation Army, and Quarrier’s, to name a few.

CEO and founder of the British Home Child Advocacy and Research Association (BH-CARA), Lori Oschefski, says, “Barnardo’s, who sent over thir-ty thousand children here

and was by far the largest orga-nization sending children to Canada, has since openly called their past actions ‘barbaric’ and ‘dreadful’.”

For the most part, these chil-dren were not picked up from the streets but came from intact families, who, through sickness or even death of one of their par-ents, had fallen on hard times. Because there was no social sys-tem in place to help them get through these difficult circum-stances, the family had no other way than to surrender their off-spring to the organizations.

Sometimes this was meant to be a temporary solution until the family got back on its feet,

and there are cases on record where some parents went back to pick their children up, only to find that they had already been sent away. Sometimes the parents received an ‘after sail-ing’ notification, informing that their children had been emigrat-ed a week before.

Once in Canada, the chil-dren were sent to receiving

homes right across the country, until farmers picked them up, or they were sent on to their destinations with a cardboard sign around their necks. There were at least seven applicants for every child shipped to this country.

“These children are not to be confused with ‘Guest Children’, who were temporarily sent from evacuation zones in the U.K. to Canada during the Second World War, to be kept safe from areas under attack. The British Home Children were sent away to work, some never to see their families again,” says BHCARA Executive Director, Canada, Sandra Joyce.

The child migration scheme was born during the Industrial Revolution. Traditional extend-ed families were broken up and many moved to urban areas to find work and a better life. Then, if anything happened to one of the parents, there was no imme-diate family nearby to take them

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in. Abandoned British children lived and died in the streets, and workhouses were overcrowded.

Emigration was seen as a brilliant solution. The children would be sent to Canadian farms under contract. The terms would require that children be housed, fed, clothed, and sent to school. A small fee would be paid for fostering younger children, older children would help with chores, and more ex-tended labor would be required from adolescents. At age 18, the terms of indenture were to be discharged. The clean, fresh air of a Canadian farm was seen as a definitely better alternative to living in the slums of a large city.

Canada was marketed to the parents and

the children as a haven within the storms of their lives, where money grew on trees, and the adventure of traveling to a land where cowboys and lumberjacks were, sounded appealing. The parents were relieved that a way had been found where their chil-dren would be safe and healthy.

However, the harsh truth was that the monitoring of children’s placements was often neglected, and many children found them-selves essentially abandoned to new lives which were worse than the old. Siblings were separated. Girls assisted farm wives not only with housework and chil-dren, but on the fields, as well. Boys became farm workers who were grossly overworked.

While some of the children

were indeed accepted into the families they worked for and were practically adopted, many of these children suffered. Chil-dren could be ‘returned’ and reassigned. Many were moved from one farm to another. Some ran away or simply disappeared; some died from ill-health or injuries resulting from neglect and abuse, and some committed suicide.

In the very least, the belief in eugenics that was running ram-pant throughout the U.K. and North America caused children to be considered inferior stock to their Canadian counterparts. They were stigmatized as such, merely because they were poor and needed help. In communi-ties where these children were

meant to be fostered and nurtured, they were often taunted and made to feel shame for being a Home Boy or Home Girl. This shame caused many Home Chil-dren to remain silent about their backgrounds their en-tire lives.

Some influential political voices were raised against

bringing the children to Cana-da in this way, but it was more about the ‘dangerous and filthy street Arabs infecting’ Canadi-an society than it was about the welfare of the children.

During the First World War, many Home Boys enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, just to get back to see any fam-ily that they might still have in the ‘old’ country. Some ran away from their placements and lied about their age to achieve this, or to get away from a bad or abu-sive placement. During the war no children were sent here.

The scheme began again in earnest in the early 1920’s. Many households were in dire straits after the loss of so many young men in the war, and then the deaths of both men and women during the Spanish Flu epidemic.

It wasn’t until 1924 that the sending of children under the age of 14 was discouraged. Even so, some young ones slipped through the cracks. In any case,

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A new year has just begun and the time has come to gather up your records and prepare to file your

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This year there is a focus on tax breaks aimed at families with children under the age of 18. For 2014, they have intro-duced limited income-splitting for this group, an increase in amounts deductible for child care, a doubling of the fitness tax credit and a boost to the universal child care benefit.

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the majority of children continued to be sent right up until the advent of the Sec-ond World War, after which heightened social consciousness condemned the sending of any more children to Canada in this way.

Over ten percent of the current Ca-nadian population are descendants of the Home Children, although many are still unaware of their heritage. This is one of the many reasons why the Home Children and their determination and perseverance deserve to have their huge contribution to the founding of our na-tion recognized and their stories heard.

Ms. Lori Oschefski is a Genealogical Researcher and Advocate whose work is recognized world-wide. Her work had been the subject of coverage with interviews and articles from many news media outlets including the BBC in England, multi-award winning regional newspaper Kent on Sunday & Kent on Saturday, Medway Messenger, KMFM Radio Kent, the Meridian Television and in Canada – the Canadian Post Media News and more recently the Winnipeg

Free Press, the CBC radio, BBC Radio Wales and many Canadian newspapers. Several magazine articles have been pub-lished based on her work. Ms. Oschefski became involved with the Home Chil-dren when, in 2010, her mother, at the age of eighty six, revealed that she had been adopted. Ms. Oschefski soon dis-covered that her mother was, in fact, a Child Migrant of the Salvation Army brought to Canada in 1924. In research-ing her mother’s family history Ms. Os-chefski not only discovered that she was the Child of a Child Migrant, but that in fact, her maternal Grandfather was also a British Home Child of the Dr. Barnar-do Homes. In fact, research has revealed that there are an incredible number of fifteen BHC in her family tree. Lori’s mother’s story has now been published in the newly released book “Promises of Home”.

Ms. Sandra Joyce is an Author and Advocate for the British Home Chil-dren. She has written two books as well as has done over 125 presentations on the subject.

Based on her Home Child father’s life, ‘The Street Arab’ looks at the causes of familial breakdown, life in the Homes in the UK, a Home Child’s subsequent immigration to Canada as well as a Home Boy’s life on the farm.

‘Belonging’, which is the sequel to the ‘The Street Arab’, looks at the last-ing effects this immigration scheme had on these children and their families during adulthood. Ms. Joyce is a native Torontonian with a varied career. A Jour-nalism graduate from Ryerson Universi-ty in Toronto, she was an award-winning publicist during her tenure at CBS Re-cords, a contract negotiator for the Ger-man Department of Defense as well as an English teacher and storyteller. She is the Executive Director, Canada for the British Home Children Advocacy & Re-search Association.

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There has been a movement afoot for years by Canadian government agen-cies to improve the education of the

Canadian citizen concerning healthy eating . The Canadian Food Guide has been in place since 1942. Publications produced by the Min-istry of Health abound; the province, regional health departments and even municipal gov-ernments have education programs for healthy eating. Many school boards and individual schools have a no junk food policy. So one would believe that the average Canadian teen-ager would know their fruits and veggies, right?

The produce section of your local grocery store has changed significantly in the past decade as more types of fruit and vegetables from around the world have arrived on the shelf at the re-quest of consumers who are seeking ingredients to replicate traditional dishes of their ethnic background and home cooks who are adven-turous in trying new recipes. There are fruits and vegetables in local Asian markets that I have never seen or heard of, and a good chance they will never be a stocked item in my local store. I would not expect every teen to be able to identify lemongrass, galangul, or a medlar but they should be able to identify a turnip, cantaloupe and a radish.

In today’s hectic work environment we have come to rely on processed, prepared and quick serve foods as less time is available in the week to cook at home. Many of those foods contain additives, high fat, sugar or salt to make them very appealing to the palette ; they don’t feed

your body they just take away the hunger for a few hours. It has also created a disconnect for some young people to identify the foods they eat when they are in their whole food form.

The key to education on any subject is to put it into practice. That old 4-H motto of ‘Learn to do by doing’ is why we need to get the kids into the kitchen to learn the responsibility of preparing a meal and following simple recipes. There are many websites with how to videos on preparing a recipe. Sites such as Allrecipes.com, Youtube and the Food Network have in-structional videos from something as simple as poaching an egg to the difficulty of creating a wedding cake. Make the experience fun and challenging, let them pick a recipe and do the shopping for the ingredients following a bud-get, and a time restriction. Give them 3 ingre-dients that they have to turn into a meal. Re-ward them for preparing a meal that is tasty and healthy. Even the pickiest eater is more open to trying new things when they are a part of the preparation of the meal, as it satisfies their need to control their food experience.

Learning to cook is not about assigning a chore; there is a lot of science to be learnt during the preparation of food, knowledge about expens-es and budgeting, time management and a gen-eral sense of being responsible for an important part of the family experience. All that knowl-edge is an important part of the life experiences that create an intelligent creative and healthy adult, and at the very least someone who can identify a radish.

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W ITH OVERWHELMING SALES THIS FALL, WE ANTICIPATE A SPRING 2015 GROUND BREAKING

Thank you, Newcastle, for the overwhelming success during our preview launch. Brookhouse Gate, situated in a most idyllic neighbourhood, steps from everything you could want, is where you want to be. This architecturally stunning building with its extensive gardens and putting green is an ideal Town and Country Residence. Exceptional 1 bedroom + den, 2 bedroom and 2 bedroom + den designs including our ground floor terrace collection available. All suites include underground parking and locker.

$200’SFROMTHE UPPER

UNDERGROUND PARKING AND LOCKER INCLUDED

brookhousegate.comPrices and specifications subject to change without notice. Brokers protected. E.&O.E. 2014

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Hours:Mon. to Wed.: 1pm - 6pm. Weekends: Noon - 5pm

Thursday & Friday: By Appointment

905-446-3000

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