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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Barbara Cretzman returned to a job she loved just one year after she retired because she believes in the mandate of the department and knew they could use her help to get the Canada Emergency Response Benefits out to Canadians….
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Robert Thirsk first went to space in 1996. He initially studied medicine, but when he was a resident at a hospital in New Brunswick, he saw a newspaper ad calling for applications for a new astronaut program Canada was starting….
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What is going on with Alberta’s pensions? That’s a question that was posed to me a couple of times on a recent trip to Alberta. The province’s premier, Jason Kenney, made headlines in late 2019 by moving some public-sector pension plans…
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While pharmacare is a hot topic these days, there is a less-discussed aspect of prescription drugs that is gaining more and more attention from health-care professionals and patients alike — deprescribing. Deprescribing defined Deprescribing is defined by the Canadian…
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To have missed all the fuss over plant-based burgers in the last year, you’d pretty much have to have been living between a bun. Newspapers, magazines and newscasts have been loaded up with stories about these new additions to the…
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