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Globe and Mail
2 days ago
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Ross Lobato Launches Body Evolution Labs: A New Era of Science-Backed Weight Loss and Body Contouring in Layton, Utah
Layton, UT - Ross Lobato, alongside his wife Shawna Stanger Lobato, proudly announces the opening of Body Evolution Labs, a premier medical spa in Davis County dedicated to transformative, non-invasive weight loss and body sculpting solutions. Located at 1454 N Hill Field Rd, Suite #1, Body Evolution Labs offers a range of services designed to help clients achieve their health and aesthetic goals. The clinic specializes in FDA-approved GLP-1 weight loss programs utilizing Semaglutide and Tirzepatide, which have been shown to help clients lose 15–20% of their body weight. "We combine medical insight with real-life results," says Ross Lobato. "No gimmicks, no shortcuts—just proven treatments and personalized care that put your goals front and center." Services Offered: GLP-1 Weight Loss Programs: Personalized plans using Semaglutide and Tirzepatide to promote significant weight loss and improve metabolic health. Non-Invasive Body Sculpting: Advanced technologies like cryolipolysis and EMsculpt Neo to target stubborn fat areas and enhance muscle tone. Health & Life Coaching: Comprehensive support to help clients build sustainable habits for lasting wellness. Body Evolution Labs is committed to providing a holistic approach to health and wellness, ensuring clients receive the support they need on their journey to a healthier lifestyle. For more information or to schedule an appointment, visit or contact Ross Lobato at 385-732-4212 or Ross@ About Body Evolution Labs: Founded by Ross and Shawna Lobato, Body Evolution Labs is a medical spa in Layton, Utah, offering science-backed weight loss and body contouring treatments. The clinic focuses on personalized care, utilizing advanced technologies and FDA-approved medications to help clients achieve their health and aesthetic goals. Media Contact Company Name: Body Evolution Labs Contact Person: Ross Lobato Email: Send Email Phone: 385-732-4212 City: Layton State: UT Country: United States Website:
Calgary Herald
3 days ago
- Politics
- Calgary Herald
Chris Selley: Alberta NDP's divorce from the federal party trainwreck is better for everyone
Article content Mark Carney cuts the ultimate Laurentian-elite figure, but he did grow up in Edmonton, which is a bit risqué from a Liberal standpoint. Before Carney, the party's leaders had grown up (in this order) in Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, Ottawa, Shawinigan, Ottawa, Montreal, Hamilton … you get the picture. Article content The federal NDP have been stuck in Central Canada mode for nearly as long: Jagmeet Singh is from Toronto; his predecessor Tom Mulcair is from Montreal, and for all his perspicacity never really made much sense as party leader; Layton before that cut his political teeth in Toronto, yet somehow his upbringing in the arch-anglophone Montreal suburb of Hudson played to his advantage in francophone Quebec. That's not something the party will ever be able to replicate. No one is quite sure how it happened the first time. Article content It's an interesting fact that only one person, the little-remembered John Thompson, has ever served both as a provincial premier (Nova Scotia) and as prime minister (he was Canada's fourth, dying in office quite spectacularly of a heart attack at Windsor Castle in 1894). But there's no reason a premier couldn't or shouldn't become PM, and the NDP — more than any other nationwide party, probably — should want to break that streak. Article content Article content Say what you will about British Columbia NDP premier David Eby, or former Alberta NDP premier Rachel Notley or her successor Naheed Nenshi, or Saskatchewan opposition leader Carla Beck (whose NDP hold 27 seats to the Saskatchewan Party's 34), or Manitoba NDP Premier Wab Kinew, but they're all heavy hitters compared to the low-energy types that find themselves leading the Ontario and federal parties. Article content There is clearly an expectation of winning in certain provincial capitals that does not exist among New Democrats at Queen's Park or on Parliament Hill — which is especially odd considering the provincial and federal parties so freely trade strategists and staffers. To pick just one prominent example: Montreal-born-and-bred Brian Topp, who ran for the party leadership against Mulcair after Layton's death, was Notley's chief of staff in Edmonton, and had previously been Saskatchewan NDP Premier Roy Romanow's deputy chief of staff in Regina. Article content Article content Lately he has been reduced to crowing about how great the federal NDP's supply-and-confidence deal was with the Trudeau Liberals. It's just weird. Maybe what the party needs is a proper, public civil war. Article content In any event, if federal New Democrats want to be relevant again other than mathematically — never mind want to govern — they would do well to stop pretending they have anything much in common with their successful provincial comrades in Victoria, Edmonton, Regina and Winnipeg. And their comrades in those provincial capitals would do well to separate themselves from decades of wretched failure by the federal party — even if only symbolically. They're just not playing in the same league. In practice, they simply aren't the single party they claim to be.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
'They treated us like animals!' Mother whose dream holiday to Turkey was destroyed when her son was rushed into 'mortuary'-esque hospital with 'excruciating stomach pain' reveals worst things about emergency care abroad
A mother's dream family holiday to Turkey was derailed after her son underwent emergency surgery in a horror hospital that resembled a mortuary.. Kay Bainbridge, from Rainham, Kent, was enjoying a family holiday to Turkey when her five-year-old son Layton began experiencing excruciating stomach pain. The panicked mother-of-three said she immediately sought medical attention from her Antalya hotel doctor but was told her son could not be seen without a large cash payment. The Kent native spent more than £1,270 on medical costs for her little boy and claims that her insurance company has yet to cover the cost. She has now set up a GoFundMe to help cover the costs of the emergency treatment and flights home after revealing the terrible reality of the emergency care they received. The mother and son flew out to Turkey with Kay's two other sons Kian and Kayson, her mother, brother, sister, and her children's father on May 14 for a family holiday. But while relaxing in Antalya, Layton, five, became extremely unwell and in the early hours of May 20 Kay found her little boy 'screaming in excruciating pain and vomiting'. The worried mother called the hotel doctor over who redirected her to a local clinic which Kay described as 'rundown' and added 'it was like going in to a mortuary.' The Kent native then explained that before her son had even been examined she was asked to pay up front costs of more than £1,000. Kay, worried for her son, handed over her last £250 which said was supposed to be for spending money for the last day or two of the holiday. She added that despite telling staff she had no more money left, they continued demanding more from her and she felt they became aggressive towards her. Kay said: 'They were still demanding £800 on top of the £200 and because I couldn't pay they got really angry and really aggressive.' Layton was then transferred to Baskent University Hospital in Alanya for further treatment and an operation on his intestines which had become twisted. But the mother-of-three said the care did not improve and during her stay she found the staff rude, the meals inedible and the care lacking in professionalism. The Kent local described how on route from the doctor's clinic to the hospital, paramedics fell asleep in the ambulance and Kay was left to watch over her son alone. 'While we were travelling there the paramedic was asleep, curled up in the back of the ambulance fast asleep for two hours on the way to the hospital while she was supposed to be taking care of Layton.' The Kent local described how on route from the doctor's clinic to the hospital, paramedics fell asleep in the ambulance and Kay was left to watch over her son alone Kay explained that upon her arrival, while Layton was taken immediately in to surgery, her and her son's passports were taken off them by hospital staff. The worried mother explained this left her in a panic. 'All this was going on like no one spoke English. I didn't have a clue what was going on. All I knew was that my son was going for surgery. I didn't know where or what was happening,' she said. After the surgery, Kay claims the hospital refused to let her son eat and the meals they did provide were awful. 'As a private hospital, you would expect something decent. I wouldn't even feed the food to an animal it was that bad. 'It was slop, literally just beans and rice, proper poor food,' Kay said. She went on to describe the treatment her son received as shocking and told MailOnline she watched medics anaesthetise Layton while he was still sitting in a wheelchair in the emergency room. She also said that her son was screaming and begging them to stop as they roughly inserted a cannula in to his hand that left the bed stained with blood. Kay said: 'Before the surgery they were putting cannulas in his arm and they were pinning him down while he was screaming, begging them to stop.' Kay also confessed she fears she may have signed away her son's organs during the process because she kept being handed forms in Turkish, without any translation After waiting in the hospital for her son to be deemed fit to fly, Kay told MailOnline the hospital believed they had lost her and Layton's passports and she was only able to recover them after threatening to get the police involved. Kay also confessed she fears she may have signed away her son's organs during the process because she kept being handed forms in Turkish, without any translation and struggled with the language barrier. 'I was getting made to sign things like things that weren't in English. I don't know what I was signing,' she recounted. 'I still don't know what I signed to this day. All I've been given is his medical report. No copies of anything that I've signed.' 'All this was going on like no one spoke English. I didn't have a clue what was going on. All I knew was that my son was going for surgery. I didn't know where or what was happening. In total Kay paid £1,270 for the emergency treatment for her son but her worries did not end there. Having run out of money, Kay and Layton were unable to stay in a hotel after being discharged. Although Kay said she contacted her insurance company, she claims they informed her they would be unable to cover the costs of a hotel stay for a further five days while Layton recovered and the mother confessed she and her five-year-old son were forced to sleep in the airport and book an earlier flight home. She said: 'My poor child had to spend eight hours on the cold floor in a Turkish airport because we had nowhere else to go.' Kay added that she made the best of the situation and pushed two chairs together to create a makeshift bed for Layton, who was still recovering from surgery, to sleep on. She added: 'It was either sleep on the streets with him, sleep in the airport for 5 days, or risk bringing him home.' The mother-of-three also had to pay £140 for flights back to the UK where the rest of her worried family waited for news. And the whole experience has had a lasting impact on her son. 'He's tramuatised. He keeps saying "Mum please don't ever take me back there" and he won't tell me he' s in pain because he think he's going to have to go back there, ' Kay revealed. Now back in the UK, Kay explained that in her son's first NHS hospital appointment she will ask for a full scan of her son's organs after finding worrying medical details on her son's paperwork. 'I'll have full scans to make sure he's got everything there, because on this paperwork it mentions that his appendix couldn't be seen. He's never had his appendix taken out.,' Kay said. 'And I've seen stories out there - that woman who had her heart removed. ' Earlier this month Beth Martin, 28, fell ill during a flight to Turkey. Initially blaming food poisoning, the mother-of-two from Portsmouth was taken to hospital where she tragically died a day later. In a sickening turn of events, a UK autopsy later revealed Beth's heart had been removed after she passed away in Turkey. The Ministry of Health in Turkey revealed Beth died after a 'cardiac arrest due to multiple organ failure' - but stopped short at explaining the exact cause of this and have not explained why her heart was missing. Kay added: 'A lot of people have told me they [Turkish surgeons] can just take the organs for their own right. And they don't need permission. It's worried me a bit, so I just want to make sure that I understand all the paperwork I've signed.'
Hamilton Spectator
26-05-2025
- Business
- Hamilton Spectator
Hudson's Bay employees sparking interest from Holt Renfrew and other retailers
TORONTO - Big-name department and drug stores are circling the more than 9,300 Hudson's Bay and Saks Fifth Avenue Canada workers who will soon be out of a job. Luxury retailer Holt Renfrew told The Canadian Press it's added dozens of former Bay and Saks staff to its store teams, 'with more still to come.' 'While our turnover rate is amongst the lowest it's been, we've been committed to helping our HBC and Saks colleagues with any opportunities we can provide,' spokesperson Adam Grachnik said in an email. Meanwhile, talent acquisition staff at Shoppers Drug Mart and Rexall appear to be working social media channels, hoping to lure in Bay and Saks employees. Canada's oldest company filed for creditor protection in March, and the company has been winding down. Following months of liquidation sales, all 96 of the Bay and its sister Saks stores will shutter at the end of May. While some workers will presumably retire or abandon the retail world altogether, experts say others are likely to be scooped up by just about any retailer you can think of. 'Any of the great brands out there that are looking for good people are reaching out to them,' said Lanita Layton, a luxury and retail consultant who was once a vice-president at Holt Renfrew. She imagines Bay and Saks workers would be a great get for La Maison Simons, which is due to hire hundreds of staff members when it opens two Toronto department stores later this year, but also thinks they could slide right in at home goods shops like Crate and Barrel or Williams Sonoma. The workers are a fit for so many places because many have worked on commission, so they know how to sell, and they also have a deep knowledge of the Canadian marketplace and the products and customers that fill it. Some may even have a 'hidden gem' — contact info for regular shoppers they would have served at the Bay's upscale Room business or the designer Saks department. 'Every retailer is looking to maintain and grow their customer base, so if they've got somebody they could potentially hire that has that already, that is really, really important,' Layton said. Bringing experienced staff onto a new team is also a savings, said Lauren Burrows, a senior manager of retail strategy at Accenture, who imagines luxury businesses, small boutiques and grocers will vie for Bay workers. She estimates it costs on average between $3,000 to $4,000 to recruit, interview and hire an employee, train them and then cope with their initial, lower productivity while they adjust to the quirks and cadences of the job. Once they're in the job, retention becomes a key issue because retail roles are known for having higher than usual turnover, she said. But Layton points out many Bay employees spent decades at the department store and worked in difficult-to-fill roles like visual merchandisers — highlighting trends, customer demographics and brand partnerships at the store. Another treasure the Bay and Saks had were their beauty departments, which Holt Renfrew admitted it's already poached from. Layton figured Sephora would do the same because it's been expanding and it's easy to transition workers from one beauty brand to another. 'If they're makeup artists in one, they could be a makeup artist in another without blinking,' Layton said. 'If they're switching from a Tom Ford counter to Lancôme or vice versa, it's just learning the nature of that brand, but that doesn't take anybody long when they're professionals in that area already.' The leap may also be easy for some staff headed to Canadian Tire. The retailer is on track to purchase the Bay name, its stripes motif, its coat of arms and its brands for $30 million. While the company did not comment on whether it was seeking Bay hires, Layton figures they'd be logical additions because they know the intricacies of the intellectual property Canadian Tire wants to acquire. Bay staff would also be experts in product development, logistics, data analysis and inventory management, making them useful throughout the industry. Because the retail world can be so 'complex' and Bay employees have run a company even in the face of upheaval, Burrows said any business undergoing transformation would want them. 'Having folks who have been through that and can really start day one, hit the ground running and add value right away... is amazing,' she said. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 26, 2025. Companies in this story: (TSX:CTC.A)
Winnipeg Free Press
26-05-2025
- Business
- Winnipeg Free Press
Hudson's Bay employees sparking interest from Holt Renfrew and other retailers
TORONTO – Big-name department and drug stores are circling the more than 9,300 Hudson's Bay and Saks Fifth Avenue Canada workers who will soon be out of a job. Luxury retailer Holt Renfrew told The Canadian Press it's added dozens of former Bay and Saks staff to its store teams, 'with more still to come.' 'While our turnover rate is amongst the lowest it's been, we've been committed to helping our HBC and Saks colleagues with any opportunities we can provide,' spokesperson Adam Grachnik said in an email. Meanwhile, talent acquisition staff at Shoppers Drug Mart and Rexall appear to be working social media channels, hoping to lure in Bay and Saks employees. Canada's oldest company filed for creditor protection in March, and the company has been winding down. Following months of liquidation sales, all 96 of the Bay and its sister Saks stores will shutter at the end of May. While some workers will presumably retire or abandon the retail world altogether, experts say others are likely to be scooped up by just about any retailer you can think of. 'Any of the great brands out there that are looking for good people are reaching out to them,' said Lanita Layton, a luxury and retail consultant who was once a vice-president at Holt Renfrew. She imagines Bay and Saks workers would be a great get for La Maison Simons, which is due to hire hundreds of staff members when it opens two Toronto department stores later this year, but also thinks they could slide right in at home goods shops like Crate and Barrel or Williams Sonoma. The workers are a fit for so many places because many have worked on commission, so they know how to sell, and they also have a deep knowledge of the Canadian marketplace and the products and customers that fill it. Some may even have a 'hidden gem' — contact info for regular shoppers they would have served at the Bay's upscale Room business or the designer Saks department. 'Every retailer is looking to maintain and grow their customer base, so if they've got somebody they could potentially hire that has that already, that is really, really important,' Layton said. Bringing experienced staff onto a new team is also a savings, said Lauren Burrows, a senior manager of retail strategy at Accenture, who imagines luxury businesses, small boutiques and grocers will vie for Bay workers. She estimates it costs on average between $3,000 to $4,000 to recruit, interview and hire an employee, train them and then cope with their initial, lower productivity while they adjust to the quirks and cadences of the job. Once they're in the job, retention becomes a key issue because retail roles are known for having higher than usual turnover, she said. But Layton points out many Bay employees spent decades at the department store and worked in difficult-to-fill roles like visual merchandisers — highlighting trends, customer demographics and brand partnerships at the store. Another treasure the Bay and Saks had were their beauty departments, which Holt Renfrew admitted it's already poached from. Layton figured Sephora would do the same because it's been expanding and it's easy to transition workers from one beauty brand to another. 'If they're makeup artists in one, they could be a makeup artist in another without blinking,' Layton said. 'If they're switching from a Tom Ford counter to Lancôme or vice versa, it's just learning the nature of that brand, but that doesn't take anybody long when they're professionals in that area already.' The leap may also be easy for some staff headed to Canadian Tire. The retailer is on track to purchase the Bay name, its stripes motif, its coat of arms and its brands for $30 million. While the company did not comment on whether it was seeking Bay hires, Layton figures they'd be logical additions because they know the intricacies of the intellectual property Canadian Tire wants to acquire. Monday Mornings The latest local business news and a lookahead to the coming week. Bay staff would also be experts in product development, logistics, data analysis and inventory management, making them useful throughout the industry. Because the retail world can be so 'complex' and Bay employees have run a company even in the face of upheaval, Burrows said any business undergoing transformation would want them. 'Having folks who have been through that and can really start day one, hit the ground running and add value right away… is amazing,' she said. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 26, 2025. Companies in this story: (TSX:CTC.A)
