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More than five million Canadians provide care to family members at home. Coming up with a plan to meet all the patient’s needs will require regular communication between health care professionals, the family caregiver, and the patient. Here are a ...
Read More »Six Tips on Asking for Help
Most of us don’t like asking for help. We like to think we can do everything for ourselves, and we don’t want others to feel obliged to take the time and effort to help us out. But sometimes we all ...
Read More »Six Tips on Creating a Caregiving Team
Looking after a family member or friend can be a 24/7 task. Even if it’s not, in most cases it’s impossible for one individual to help a patient with all his or her needs. Here are six tips on creating ...
Read More »Three Tips on Communicating with Health Care Professionals
Patients and the families can be intimidated when they’re meeting with health care professionals. There’s the sense that doctors, nurses and other providers are too busy to have meaningful conversations, or that they always know best because of their training. ...
Read More »Cop suffers cardiac arrest in run, back running 4 months later
Toronto Police Service Constable Andrew Rosbrook suffered sudden cardiac arrest during Toronto’s Half Marathon in 2013. He was resuscitated with the help of a MIKEY defibrillator. Four months later he ran the National Peace Officer’s Memorial “Run to Remember” Toronto ...
Read More »Porter dumps hazardous de-icing fluid into city sewer
A proper de-icing facility is impossible at Toronto Island airport. A recently-released draft Master Plan for the Island Airport says tight physical constraints at Toronto’s Island Airport make provision of a proper de-icing facility impossible. Here’s what the Plan states: ...
Read More »The Case of the Missing Economic Recovery
Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D. [Global Research] Have you seen the economic recovery? I haven’t either. But it is bound to be around here somewhere, because the National Bureau of Economic Research spotted it in June 2009, four and one-half ...
Read More »TTC fares rise, some tickets are worthless after March 1
Adam Vaughan — As of Wednesday, January 1st, 2014, the cost of adult tokens will increase from $2.65 to $2.70 and the Metropass cost will rise from $128.50 to $133.75. Cash fares will remain unchanged. An extra 5 cents cash ...
Read More »Liberty Village wants integrated GO fare for commuters
Dennis Hanagan — A plan to set up an integrated GO fare for Liberty Village residents and perhaps build a second GO station there could be the start of something big, according to Liberty Village BIA executive director Lynn Clay. ...
Read More »Hotel, residential development llisted for Ontario Place revamp
Dennis Hanagan – Consultants expect to have a conceptual design in place by January to show the public how a new park planned for the east side of Ontario Place could look. It could open in two years. At a ...
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