Health News
Each school year, I teach a unit called “Abilities Awareness”. Making students aware of each other’s different abilities helps us become better citizens and leads to a more positive and inclusive school climate. This awareness leads to empathy and a deeper understanding of our peers’ individual learning needs resulting in a sense of belonging, community, and value in our school community. This unit is also an opportunity to address misconceptions surrounding different disabilities. In the words of Winston Churchill, “Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.”
Sight Reading Braille
This year, I
The Vancouver Aboriginal Health Society (VAHS), along with the First Nations Aboriginal Primary Care Network, launched a women’s mobile primary care program in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) on Wednesday.
“We are happy to have this up and running, this van is really important to us,” said Rosemary Stager-Wallace, VAHS executive director, at a press conference.
“It is going to bring primary care to the Downtown Eastside to some of our most vulnerable women.”
Stager-Wallace said the program will provide wraparound low-barrier access care with knowledge keepers, elders and healers
The Yukon Yoyukuk School District joined with the Area Health Education Center to host a health care camp running from Saturday to Thursday.
Seven high-school students are spending the week learning about different therapies, mental illness, resilience and career paths within the field.
Residents in a Kelowna, BC, neighborhood will soon have increased access to team-based, everyday health care with the construction of a new urgent and primary care center in the Rutland area this fall.
“The past year has been particularly difficult, with multiple Rutland family doctors closing their practices,” said Dr. Christine Hoppe, lead physician at Central Okanagan Division of Family Practice.
“With a community health center and an urgent and primary-care center opening in Rutland in the months ahead, Rutland residents will have better access to much-needed health care
Manitoba’s health-care unions are calling on the province to get all health facilities workplace safety certifications to cut down on the high rate of worker injuries.
A Worker’s Compensation Board report shows health-care workers have the highest injury rate of any major sector in the province. From 2017 to 2021, there were 14,000 injuries – around 4.5 per 100 workers – serious enough for workers to need time off.
In Manitoba, health care “is the most dangerous sector to work in,” said Kevin Rebeck, president of the Manitoba Federation of Labor. “That’s wrong. That needs to change, and it won’t
Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé promised that his planned overhaul of the province’s health-care network would shake the system to its foundations.
During his speech at the Center hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), the minister said the reform would require collaboration from all facets of the health network.
“I’m telling you right now, in two weeks the pillar of the temple will — I was looking for a better word — but it’s going to ‘shatter,'” he said.
“Why? Because it’s everyone who has to contribute. We will ask a lot, but from everyone,” Dubé said, naming unions, doctors
Nurses stormed Queen’s Park Thursday, with a protest outside and a lobby day inside the provincial parliament
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
While Ontario’s nursing union held a mass protest outside Queen’s Park Thursday, a nursing lobby group was working on the inside, putting pressure on the Ford government.
The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) organized the protest with the support of allied labor groups. On stage before hundreds of nurses and supporters, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions Linda Silas
SEIU-WEST, a union with an office in Moose Jaw and representing over 12,000 healthcare workers across the province, was disappointed in the healthcare funding agreement between the province and the federal government.
On March 1, the two governments announced that they reached an agreement in principle for nearly $6 billion in healthcare funding over the next 10 years.
Back on Feb. 7, the federal government announced $2 billion from the Canada Health Transfer to address immediate pressures on the healthcare system.
The new agreement includes a one-time payment of $61 million top-up on the Canada Health Transfer to address pediatric
