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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, October 27, 2016 | 18 For more news, visit oakvillebeaver.com Now Open! The biggest & BEST selection of all your favorite British products and hand made, award winning butchery & bakery items in store! Oakville's only British store Biggest selection and cheapest prices Heinz beans 4 pack Jacob's Cream Crackers $ 6 99 $ 99 2 "Come see our gifts section!" "tons of Christmas stock just arrived!" Seniors Da Day! 10% DiSCOuNt EVERY MONDAY if you are over 60! `Scripting' of Question Period raises questions: Bob Rae by David Lea Oakville Beaver Staff Former Ontario NDP premier and interim federal Liberal Party leader Bob Rae spoke to the Canadian Club of Halton last week. Rae addressed numerous topics and looked at what he called the trend of `scripting' procedures during Question Period in the House of Commons. | Nikki Wesley/Metroland Monday to Saturday 10am- 5:30pm, Sunday 10am - 5pm · (905) 845 2748 259 Lakeshore Road East (Opposite the Church), Oakville, ON L6J 1H9 www.britishgrocer.net Former Ontario NDP premier and interim federal Liberal Party leader Bob Rae reflected on the troubling state of North American politics in a speech at the Canadian Club of Halton last Thursday (Oct. 20). Held at the Oakville Conference Centre, the event attracted more than 300 people. Rae, who served as interim federal leader of the Liberal Party from 2011-2013, spoke about first being elected as an NDP Member of Parliament (MP) in 1978. At that time, Question Period had only recently become televised and, as a result, he said, it had yet to impact levels of political discourse. see Scripts on p.20 Do you have good hearing but find listening tiring? Research has shown that even people with minimal hearing loss find listening to be tiring. Swiss based hearing aid technology can help by limiting the effort needed by the brain to understand speech. Listening and understanding speech are an important part of everyday communications. However, this can be challenging for people with normal hearing, and even more trying for people with hearing loss. Many of our everyday environments are not ideal. Poor acoustics, lack of visual cues (e.g. on-the phone or talking from another room), muffled speech, and background noise limit our ability to understand speech. This results in asking people to repeat themselves, straining to hear, and possibly avoiding group discussions. A rising field of study by hearing researchers is listening effort. This can be defined as the amount of cognitive resources that are being used to process and understand speech. Research suggests that continued listening effort is linked to reduce the cognitive processing needed to understand speech. Listening effort may be reduced for some clients through the new rechargeable Phonak Audéo B-R hearing aids. This cutting-edge hearing technology allows hearing aids to automatically adapt to any listening environment. In addition to understanding speech easier, less effort is required to listen. The rechargeable system is easy to use and provides 24 hours of hearing with only one charge. Better hearing without changing another battery! Introducing the New Rechargeable Phonak AudéoTM B-R · 24 hours of hearing with one charge · Hassle free, built in lithium-ion battery · Automatically adapts to any listening situation, no matter where life takes you Thebrainrequiresmorementalenergywhen listening in difficult environments. This effortful listening in turn leads to fatigue. increases in stress, tension, and fatigue. A person who is straining to hear is using more brain power to understand speech. The more brain power needed, the more tired that person is going to feel. A growing body of research suggests that hearing aids may reduce listening effort, and in return mental fatigue when processing speech in noise. Digital Noise Reduction technology has been shown to Connect Hearing is currently looking to not only improve hearing, but also to lower the listening effort required to hear. We are particularly interested in candidates who find listening in the presence of background noise to be exhausting and can benefit from a free trial to see whether they notice an improvement. Interested people can register for a free hearing evaluation and a no-obligation trial of the rechargeable Audéo B-R hearing aids by calling 1.888.408.7377 or visiting connecthearing.ca/recharge. BONUS Limited time offer until Dec. 16 Get a FREE mini charger with your new Audéo B-R Hearing aids. 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