Year in Review
by Jim McDonell, M.P.P.
After a year of challenges like no other in the past 100 years, conditions are finally lining up to allow 2021...
A most special festive gift of one million dollars
by Jane Adams
Lois and Dale Keyes don’t look at all like Santa and Mrs. Claus. But they’ve just delivered the most wonderful present to...
And so this is Christmas…
Everyone has a favourite Christmas carol or two. Some are older, religious ones, like “Away in a Manger”, or “Joy to the World”. Others...
Stay with the happy people
This year, the holidays aren’t what they should be. At least the vaccine’s roll-out brings anticipation that 2021 will see a return to normal....
Ontario helps Municipalities respond to COVID-19
The Ontario government is allocating an additional $120 million to help municipalities and Indigenous community partners protect the health and safety of vulnerable people...
An Open Letter to the Community From the Medical Officer of Health
With the holidays upon us and 2020 winding down, I would like to take a moment to reflect on this past year.
There is no...
How would you treat your own mother?
It was 1949 and I was making rounds at the Massachusetts General Hospital with Professor Edward D. Churchill, an original thinker who taught medical...
Tid-Bit Musings
by Elva Patterson Rutters RSSW
Expectations. Expectations galore reign at this time of year. Sometimes it has reached the point of requiring one to be...
Earliest pioneers of “Me Too” Movement were American women of colour struggling with effects...
by Anne-Marie Langan
I recently discovered that the MeToo Movement was pioneered by American women of colour well over a decade before we began hearing...
Ontario begins rollout of COVID-19 Vaccine
The Ontario government has developed a three-phase implementation plan to receive, store and administer COVID-19 vaccines to Ontarians as soon as they are received....