From virtual volunteer recruitment to Zoom meetings with MPs, the year of COVID-19 has been an advocacy year like no other. Federal Retirees’ advocacy priorities are always important, and that’s perhaps even more true with the COVID-19 pandemic impacting…
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Joanne Morrissey, the top recruiter from last year’s Mega Recruitment Drive, suggests asking prospective members if they know any other eligible members while you have them on the phone. There are 6,000 federal retirees in Newfoundland and Joanne Morrissey…
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Isobel Mackenzie has worked with seniors for the past 20 years and now, as British Columbia’s seniors advocate, she is calling for better home-care services for seniors. Credit: Adrian Lam Isobel Mackenzie has worked with and for seniors for…
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At this point, we are all too familiar with the devastating impact of COVID-19 on long-term care residents. At the time of writing, more than 100,000 Canadians have been infected and 8,700 have died, with deaths in long-term care accounting…
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After spending a good decade researching her family history and tracing her genealogical roots, Julia Creet then turned her attention to some of the newer options ushered in through increasingly accessible technology: commercial DNA analysis. Her discoveries led the York…
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A group of volunteers from Canada and the U.S. work together to build a classroom in Leon, Nicaragua, in February 2020 as part of SchoolBOX’s voluntourism program. Credit: SchoolBOX Over the phone from her home in New Brunswick, Dorma…
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Joanne Merrett, an athletic trainer, says most of her older clients kept up with their fitness by walking, biking and doing online classes. Lorraine Tétreault’s community is on the squash court. A masters athlete who competes internationally, the Ottawa…
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The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted routines and expectations, and complicated even the simplest activities, but it hasn’t shifted our focus on your priorities. From retirement income security and a national seniors strategy to pharmacare and veterans’ well-being, the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Canadian Armed Forces wants to make the transition from its ranks seamless. It’s not surprising that the website of the Canadian Armed Forces Transition Group (CAF TG) contains a road map. As veterans will tell you, transition to civilian…
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The future of defined-benefit pension plans is increasingly in peril. Earlier this year, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Toronto released a report that described a demographic shift we’ve known was coming for some time — there are…
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Social prescribing is health care’s cure for loneliness and social isolation. What better time to consider it? In April, when this article was written, the world was grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic. Our governments were imposing various measures to…
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Consumers need to be vigilant as scammers become increasingly sophisticated in their approaches. The automated caller said I won $2,550,000 in a sweepstakes, so I promptly hung up. Too late, says Martin Franssen. Your mistake, he says, was answering a…
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