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CANADA | Dec 11, 2024
[News] Ipsos Poll: Majority of Canadians with Household Income Below $60K May Soon Turn to Charities to Meet Daily Essential Needs
Charities facing sustained, high demand for essential services
READ MORECaring for Caregivers
Unpaid, informal caregivers, who are typically family members, friends, and neighbours, play a vital role in helping people with dementia live safely at home and in their communities. During the COVID
Sky's the limit: Non-profit program has N.S. seniors skydiving
We Are Young initiative is a Nova Scotian non-profit that aims to help seniors live out unfulfilled wishes. Through the program, anyone can nominate a senior, or even self-nominate. Past wishes inclu
Giving non-profits more freedom to care
New legislation would make it easier for non-profit organizations to support their communities in times of need.
Bill 58, the Freedom to Care Act, would make it easier for non-profits to access exemp
Massive expansion of rapid testing in Alberta
At least two million rapid tests will be available for businesses and sectors in Alberta. This follows the successful rollout of more than 1.2 million rapid tests to long-term care facilities, schools
Appointments open to all Albertans in Phase 2A and Eligibility for Phases 2B and 2C announced
Get vaccinated as soon as you can to protect yourself and those around you. All vaccines approved in Canada are safe, effective and help prevent serious illness, hospitalizations and death.
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One year of data shows Canada’s provinces and territories took very different approaches to fighting COVID-19
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, a new paper from the Institute for Research on Public Policy and the University of Oxford makes clear the stark differences among the policy responses of Canada’s
Working parents can apply to receive a one-time $561 per child benefit to help with the cost of child care
Working parents have until March 31 to apply to receive a one-time $561 per child benefit to help with the cost of child care.
Parents who used child care from April to December of 2020 while working
New funding will strengthen elder abuse prevention and intervention across the province
Alberta’s government is providing $750,000 over two years to the Alberta Elder Abuse Awareness Council, to provide one-time funding to the province’s 31 eligible coordinated community responses (C
COVID-19 vaccinations expand March 15 with Phase 2A
All Albertans born between 1947 and 1956 will soon be able to book appointments throughout the province. Also eligible to book vaccinations starting Monday are First Nations, Métis and Inuit people b
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