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BDC – 5 tips to improve website performance

Friday, September 25, 2026
Tracking your website’s performance helps you see what’s working and fix what isn’t. Dozens of dashboards aren’t always useful. Clear goals, reliable analytics and a few key metrics are often all you need to make sure your website is getting results that match your business plan. Here are five things you can do this week to start improving your website’s performance. continue reading

Too Much or Too Little Sun Exposure Can Impact Your Health — Here’s How to Strike a Balance 

Friday, September 25, 2026
In light of all this, some experts are beginning to take a more nuanced approach to sun exposure. Richard Weller, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh, studies the effect of UV light on systemic health. (He’s the lead author of the 2020 study on blood pressure and sunlight mentioned.) Weller said that, at least for people with lighter skin tones in northern latitudes, we’ve definitely gone overboard on the advice to cover up and slather on. continue reading

Ontario Investing $49 Million to Strengthen Supports for Small Business

Thursday, September 24, 2026
The Ontario government is continuing to deliver on its plan to protect small businesses and workers in the face of U.S. tariffs and economic uncertainty by investing a record $49 million over the next three years in the Ontario Small Business Advisory Centres (OSBAC), a province-wide business support services network. Formerly known as Small Business Enterprise Centres, the new OSBAC brand will create a stronger and more consistent identity for the existing province-wide network, helping entrepreneurs easily find and access services such as one-on-one consultations, information on government programs and services and funding resources at more than 50 locations across Ontario. continue reading

Red Light Therapy Research: 5 Peer-Reviewed Studies Every Operator Should Know

Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Most commercial red light therapy buyers ask the same question during evaluation: where is the science. The answer is that photobiomodulation, the technical name for red and near-infrared light therapy at therapeutic wavelengths, is one of the most published areas in modern wellness research. PubMed indexes more than 7,000 peer-reviewed studies on the topic, with new papers appearing every week. continue reading

The Glass Between You and the Sun Is Not Neutral

Tuesday, September 22, 2026
They missed the more important question entirely. The question is not “why did the sun age his left face?” The question is: What did the glass do to the sunlight before it reached his skin? The answer to that question exposes something about modern glass, modern buildings, and modern medicine that the dermatology establishment has spent 50 years carefully not examining. Glass does not treat these bands equally. Different glass compositions transmit, absorb, or reflect each band differently. And the way modern architectural and automotive glass handles the UV range is, from a biological standpoint, a catastrophe with a 28 year face to prove it. continue reading

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