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CANADA | Oct 30, 2025
[Study] Canadian Study on the Wellbeing of Solo Retirees
Despite the high numbers of solo retirees, we know little about their wellbeing and lived experience. This study will capture their voices.
READ MOREWATCH: Voter Information Session with Elections Canada
This week, we hosted an interactive voter information session with Elections Canada.
Our Members had the chance to ask their burning questions about voting in this year’s federal election, and find
More surgeries closer to home in Rocky Mountain House
An almost $10-million project will expand access to surgeries at the Rocky Mountain House Health Centre, providing better access to surgeries close to home as part of Alberta’s Recovery Plan.
The p
More funding to increase health-care capacity
Up to $36 million in new funding will improve wages and create additional workforce capacity to allow more Albertans to receive care outside of hospitals and free up resources to treat COVID-19 patien
Ageism Is Alive and Well in Advertising
It was an advertisement that warmed hearts across Europe last holiday season — and, eventually, many in the United States by way of social media.
An older man who appears to struggle just to get ou
Parties’ plans for long-term care don’t inspire experts
For a few weeks in the last year and a half, Canada’s political class turned its attention to long-term-care homes while the country watched them fail in real time.
Despite that, the solutions sugg
Prescribing nature: Research suggests the outdoors are good for your mental health
A growing body of research suggests that being outdoors can benefit mental health and boost memory, improve cardiovascular health and help us live longer. Additional studies find that nature lowers co
Further actions to protect health system from COVID-19
Due to increasing COVID-19 transmission and rising hospital admissions, overwhelmingly amongst unvaccinated Albertans, temporary measures are needed to reduce transmission and prevent the health-care
World failing to address dementia challenge
Only a quarter of countries worldwide have a national policy, strategy or plan for supporting people with dementia and their families, according to the WHO’s ‘Global status report on the public he
70% of eligible Albertans now fully vaccinated
More than 2.6 million Albertans are now fully immunized against COVID-19 after receiving two vaccine doses.
As of Sept. 2, 70 per cent of eligible Albertans have received both of their doses of vacci
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