Health Canada's Food Guide update, Netflix nabs Oscar nomination, and more top news

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Health Canada’s new Canada’s Food Guide, the first major update in more than 12 years, won’t be embraced by the beef or dairy industries. Released this week, the guide—one of the federal government’s most-requested publications—explicitly endorses plant-based diets at the expense of meat and dairy. Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor said the shift toward plant-based foods comes despite intense lobbying from the meat and dairy industries. ? Here’s what people are saying.

Netflix received its first best-picture nomination in the Oscars race, for “Roma.” The streaming service doesn’t tally ticket sales for the non-traditional releases of its films. The Spanish-language movie, along with “The Favourite,” received 10 nods from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, including for best picture and best actress. The Academy Awards, for which no host has been chosen, will be held Sunday, Feb. 24. ? Here’s what people are saying.

Walgreens Boots Alliance will pay more than USD$269 million to settle federal and state lawsuits. The first $209.2 million settlement relates to improperly billing Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs for unnecessarily dispensing insulin pens regardless of whether patients needed them. Walgreens also agreed to pay $60 million to settle claims that it overbilled Medicaid for drugs. U.S. healthcare costs have been increasingly monitored as the Trump administration tries to lower the overall cost of prescription drugs. ? Here’s what people are saying.

Viacom has paid USD$340 million for ad-supported video-streaming service Pluto TV. The purchase allows the owner of Nickelodeon and MTV to grow the digital audience for its programming and scale for its online advertising business. Pluto TV has more than 12 million monthly users who stream content including movies, news broadcasts and cartoons. Its revenue is projected to rise to $150 million in 2019, reports The Wall Street Journal. ? Here’s what people are saying.

A USD$36 billion investment is needed to reskill the nearly 1.4 million U.S. workers expected to be displaced by technology in the next decade, according to a World Economic Forum. In the U.S., the private sector could retrain 25% of all workers in disrupted jobs with an overall investment of $4.7 billion; 77% of government workers could be reskilled with an investment of $19.9 billion. The so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution is a key theme at the WEF's 2019 annual summit, held in Davos, Switzerland. ? Here’s what people are saying.

Idea of the Day: Work-life balance is not an either-or situation. You don’t have to make a trade-off, says Nathan SV, partner and chief talent officer at Deloitte India.

“If it’s peak season at work, you [need] to hunker down and put a shoulder to the wheel. But if it becomes a routine, be upfront about your personal requirements.”

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— Carmel Melouney and Jessica Hartogs