{"id":6820,"date":"2025-12-08T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:09:00","slug":"newsbrief-8-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/08\/newsbrief-8-12-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NewsBrief (8.12.2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Murray Sherriffs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air Transat pilots will walk off their jobs this Wednesday in their effort to get pay increases, following failed efforts in Montreal to talk to the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An elderly homeowner has died in a home invasion at his home on Renaud Street, near Grande All\u00e9e in St. Hubert. 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They want to remind us that motorists who drive while impaired by alcohol or drugs are among the leading causes of death on Quebec roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eating more fibre can help flush cancer-causing &#8216;forever chemicals.&#8217; Researchers in Boston have compared men who took a fibre supplement three times a day to those who had a rice-based supplement. Blood tests revealed that consuming beta-glucan fiber\u2014found in mushrooms and oats\u2014before every meal for four weeks reduced these chemicals which don&#8217;t naturally break down in the environment by eight percent. Leeching from plastic containers and nonstick cookware into food, they build up in vital organs and increase the risk of organ failure, infertility and several forms of cancer. The researchers say that the fiber helps to filter out excess bile from the digestive tract. 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