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- COVID-19
- Diseases & Infections
It just doesn’t get any easier, does it? Here we are over a year into the pandemic and instead…
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- Healthy Eating
As you may have already heard: March is Nutrition Month! This is the time of year registered dietitians come together all across Canada to celebrate and promote healthy eating as a way to enhance…

- Alcohol & Other Drugs
- Injury Prevention
- Sex & Sexuality
- Social Determinants of Health
When we think 'harm reduction' we think illicit drugs. How can we not? Every news story, blog post, podcast or pamphlet that mentions harm reduction links it to illicit drugs. But what if I told…

- Healthy Eating
- Physical Activity
- Workplace Health
At this time of year, we often promise ourselves that we’ll make healthy lifestyle changes. Sometimes, change can be hard! A common reason for not making these changes stick is because it’s just…

- Immunizations
If you have a young one starting school in 2018 you may be thinking, “How did my baby grow up so fast? Feels like yesterday I was just changing diapers, waking up 5 times a night, making baby food…

- Mental Health
- Healthy Eating
- Workplace Health
Making resolutions at the beginning of a new year started about 4,000 years ago when Babylonians resolved to return borrowed items to their neighbour. In later times, Romans made promises to Janus…