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Calories Survey by Ipsos Reid

Click here to download the full PDF Methodology These are the findings of an Ipsos Reid poll conducted on behalf of the Canadian Obesity Network. For this research, a randomy-generated representative sample of 2,041 Canadians was surveyed via Ipsos Reid’s online I-Say panel. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample’s […]

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Medical Assistance in Dying: A Patient-Centred Approach

Report of the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying Hon. Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie and Robert Oliphant Joint Chairs FEBRUARY 2016: 42 nd PARLIAMENT, 1 st SESSION Click here to download the PDF On 6 February 2015, in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General) (Carter, or the Carter decision),1 the Supreme Court of Canada declared section 14 […]

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Invitation to an Exhibition of art by David Levine

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2016 Report on Health: Canada is failing our heart failure patients

This growing and silent epidemic touches almost half of Canadians Hundreds of thousands of Canadians are living with heart failure. It’s a complicated, fatal and misunderstood condition. Almost everyone with heart disease will eventually experience heart failure. It leaves patients and their families exhausted and overwhelmed, and puts serious strain on our healthcare system. There […]

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2016 Canada Research Chairs

Click here to visit the web page Applicant University Chairholder Title Agency Tier Chair Type Stokesbury, Michael Acadia University Canada Research Chair in Ecology of Coastal Environments NSERC 2 Renewal Tariku, Fitsum British Columbia Institute of Technology Canada Research Chair in Whole-Building Performance NSERC 2 Renewal De Luca, Vincenzo Brock University Canada Research Chair in […]

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The Chief Public Health Officer’s Report on the State of Public Health in Canada, 2015: Alcohol Consumption in Canada

Alcohol is a socially accepted part of everyday life for most Canadians. Almost 80 percent of us drink. Many Canadians associate drinking with pleasurable social events such as music festivals, watching sports, parties, and relaxing. Celebrations and milestones like weddings, anniversaries, and awards are often “toasted” with alcohol. Our society condones, supports, and in some […]

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Action for Seniors

The Ontario Long Term Care Association released a report, Better Seniors’ Care, which elaborates on those four points and urges Ontarians to press their MPPs for the changes. “Ontario’s long-term care homes are finding themselves increasingly constrained by a system designed for yesterday. It is leaving them ill-equipped to meet the growing needs and numbers of today’s […]

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Rules of Engagement: Lessons from PANORAMA

January 28, 2016 The Change Foundation has released Rules of Engagement: Lessons from PANORAMA, a collection of 15 recommendations and best practices on patient engagement. The recommendations are on based on The Change Foundation’s work with its PANORAMA Panel, a group of 31 patients and family caregivers that met regularly between 2012 and 2014 to share […]

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Patient Care Groups: A new model of population based primary health care for Ontario

A report on behalf of the Primary Health Care Expert Advisory Committee By David Price, Elizabeth Baker, Brian Golden and Rosemary Hannam May 2015 Click here to download the full PDF. Executive Summary In late 2013 the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (the “ministry”) convened the Expert Advisory Committee on Strengthening Primary Health Care […]

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What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

Note from: the Publisher@Longwoods.com     January 6, 2016 What Keeps us Healthy and Happy? To help you achieve and sustain that wish, click here to watch a TED online presentation: What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life  or read the transcript below.  It’s very engaging. . . TED presentation transcript: What […]

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