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Lovey's Brand Creates Must Have "All-Natural" Products for Kids!

Tushi Wash and Tushi Stick

All-natural products protect babies’ delicate skin

The options are endless when it comes to taking care of your baby’s diapering needs, but for parents craving a natural solution for their child’s sensitive skin, Lovey’s makes the decision easy.

The Lovey's brand offers parents all-natural products like the Tushi Wash and Tushi Stick to protect their child’s delicate skin and avoid harsh chemicals.

“We don’t claim to be natural and then sneak in chemicals,” says Lovey’s creator Marcie Weinstein “We scrutinize our ingredients carefully before deciding what is going to go on your baby’s tushi.”

The Tushi Wash comes in a convenient spray bottle to lightly mist your baby’s washcloth before cleaning their bum. The gentle, natural cleansers and soothing ingredients in the spray reduce the chance of irritation and redness, and the bottle includes a trigger lock that makes it suitable to toss into the diaper bag without worrying about spills and leaks.

Also great for the diaper bag is the lab-tested Tushi Stick. This product renders chemical-laden diaper rash creams unnecessary due to its natural preservatives. These preservatives kill the bacteria on your baby’s skin and the stick itself. The applicator allows parents to keep their hands clean while the natural diaper ointment works to ease the irritation of diaper rash while moisturizing their baby’s skin.

Both the Tushi Wash and Tushi Stick can be used with disposable diapers, cloth diapers, and reusable wipes, and have both been proven effective for babies with sensitive skin.  The wash is just $12.99, and the stick is $16.99.

Make Lovey’s part of your diapering essentials today by visiting   ww.Loveys.ca

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Private health care plays important role in other countries

The presence of for-profit hospitals is commonplace around the world TORONTO, OTTAWA, WINDSOR, WINNIPEG, CALGARY, EDMONTON, VANCOUVER OUT By Nadeem Esmail and Bacchus Barua The Fraser Institute

VANCOUVER, B.C./ Troy Media/ - Defenders of Canada's health system have long argued that there are only two valid policy options: we can have a universal health-care system dominated by government or a system where private, for-profit insurers and hospitals are present but universality is unattainable. The truth, however, is that universal health care can successfully include for-profit providers. A number of other countries offer clear examples. The noble goal of universal-access to health care is not unique to Canada. It's shared with nearly every other developed country, all of which pursue it through a combination of government, private non-profit and for-profit institutions. Consider the examples of Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland, each of which delivers higher quality universal health care for costs similar or lower than Canada. Unlike Canada, these countries do not appear to be frozen by a fear of profit-making - they seem to have embraced it as part of their higher-performing approach to universality. In all of these countries, private for-profit insurers compete in the voluntary insurance sector, variously offering services such as expanded choice of physicians and hospitals, private rooms, coverage for vision and dental, and expedited access for elective treatment and day surgeries. For-profit companies also compete to offer primary universal health-care insurance in the Netherlands, and offer a substitute for public health insurance in Germany. In these countries, doctors are able to practise in both the public and private systems, and accept payments from either insurer. The presence of for-profit hospitals is even more commonplace. In 2012, some 42 per cent of hospitals in Germany were for-profit institutions, as were more than half of hospitals in Switzerland, and about 40 per cent of hospitals in France. Nearly all of these for-profit hospitals provide care for the universal systems of each country. In Australia, 35 per cent of hospitals are for-profit facilities with some contracted to provide universally accessible care. Even in Sweden, three of the country's 83 hospitals are for-profit, including a large acute-care facility that delivers care to patients within the universal system. This level of co-operation between public funders and for-profit institutions is ostensibly absent in Canada. Private for-profit parallel insurance is disallowed, dual practice by physicians is prohibited in most provinces, and only a small number of for-profit clinics and hospitals can be found. The climate simply does not encourage their formation. Some pundits say such involvement by the private sector (for-profit institutions in particular) is antithetical to the goal of universal-access health care. Others in Canada argue more strongly that any involvement of the private sector, especially the for-profits, will sacrifice the universal nature of our health-care system. None apparently have bothered to look at what other countries, particularly those with high-performing universal access health-care systems, are doing. While Canada struggles with long wait times, physician and medical-technology shortages and health-care expenditures that are eating away at provincial budgets, pundits and policy-makers are taking valuable policy options off the table for philosophical reasons. The experience of other countries demonstrates how the private sector can play an important role in delivering on the promise of universal-access health care. We owe it to patients to consider all options that provide universal, high-quality health care. Nadeem Esmail and Bacchus Barua are authors of the recent Fraser Institute study For-Profit Hospitals and Insurers in Universal Health Care Countries. © 2015 Distributed by Troy Media

Classic Chicken Pot Pie

What makes a classic? Chicken and mixed vegetables in a rich homemade white sauce fill a flaky pie crust that's perfection.

 Crust

1 pkg Pillsbury* Refrigerated Pie Crusts, softened as directed on box

Filling

1/3 cup (75 mL) butter or margarine

1/3 cup (75 mL) chopped onion

1/3 cup (75 mL) all-purpose flour

1/4 tsp (1 mL) pepper

1 3/4 cups (425 mL) chicken broth

1/2 cup (125 mL) milk

2 1/2 cups (625 mL) shredded cooked chicken or turkey

2 cups (500 mL) frozen mixed vegetables

Instructions

• 1Heat oven to 400ºF. Prepare pie crusts according to package directions for Two-Crust Pie using 9-inch glass pie plate.
• 2In 2-quart saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Add onion; cook 2 minutes, stirring frequently, until tender. Stir in flour, salt and pepper until well blended. Gradually stir in broth and milk, cooking and stirring until bubbly and thickened.
• 3Stir in chicken and mixed vegetables. Remove from heat. Spoon chicken mixture into crust-lined pan. Top with second crust; seal edge and flute. Cut slits in several places in top crust.
• 4Cover edge of crust with 2 to 3 inch strips of foil to prevent excessive browning (remove last 10 minutes of baking). Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until crust is golden brown. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

 

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