From the category archives:
Earlier this week, Canada welcomed a new hero into its hearts. Not only the winner of our first gold medal during these Olympics, but the winner of the first Olympic gold ever won by a Canadian on Canadian soil, and a genuine good human being too. Alexandre Bilodeau is just the type of person I [...]
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I want to share a great video with you. This Wake-Up Story by Healthy Child, Healthy World has a very important message for all parents and the video is really well done too. Please watch it, take its suggestions to heart, and share it with your friends. After you’re done watching it…read below.
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Last week a mother found an industrial staple in her son’s Gerber Graduates pasta. This week, the Canadian Stroke Network gave its Salt Lick Award to Gerber Graduates. According to the press release [emphasis mine]:
Two of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence – the Canadian Stroke Network and the Advanced Foods & Materials Network – [...]
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This week an Ottawa school, D. Roy Kennedy Public School, has been in the news and featured on the Free Range Kids blog because a group of students started a petition to reverse a ban on playing with balls at recess in the winter. Students are allowed to run around and play, but they cannot [...]
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We all have needs. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs provides an excellent framework to describe the relative importance of different needs. I like Meagan Francis (The Happiest Mom)’s Mother’s Hierarchy of Needs and I enjoyed putting together my Child’s Hierarchy of Needs. The problem though, with each of them, is that they focus on one person’s [...]
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Health Canada has been busy issuing recalls of wood toys due to excess levels of Barium. These are toys from companies like Melissa & Doug, that concientious safety-minded parents have come to trust. It also includes toys from the Toys R Us Imaginarium brand. These are toys that are in many houses. [...]
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I wrote previously about balancing the pros and cons of the H1N1 vaccine in making the best decision for your family. We decided to get vaccinated. However, I still think it can go either way and each family needs to make their own choice.
Yesterday, the Government of Canada finally released its first report on H1N1 [...]
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Today I read a post by@curiousdad on his blog over at the Vancouver Sun. He wrote H1N1 flu vaccine: What the skeptics aren’t telling you. In his post he outlines a case for getting the vaccine and especially for getting your kids vaccinated. His post starts out with:
As the H1N1 vaccine starts to become available [...]
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A few weeks ago I wrote a post called Public health care: Canadian perspective on myths and reality in an attempt to break down some of the myths that I kept hearing about the Canadian health care system. Since then, I’ve come across some other great posts that I’d like to share with you:
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