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National Addictions Awareness Week is November 15 to 21, 2009
YELLOWKNIFE (November 17, 2009) – In support of National Addictions Awareness Week, the Department of Health and Social Services (HSS) is encouraging NWT residents to embrace healthy choices and lifestyles.National…
Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada and OneMatch Sign Momentous Agreement
National awareness week event formalizes association’s commitment to Aboriginal stem cell patients in Canada OTTAWA, NOVEMBER 18, 2009 – The Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada (A.N.A.C.) and Canadian Blood Services’…
BC Child Poverty Report Card Coming: Nov. 24 – Day of Action Information
On November 24, 2009, First Call will release the BC Campaign 2000 Child Poverty Report Card. BC has had the worst child poverty rate in Canada for 6 years in…
Consensus Statement on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder – Across the Lifespan
Institute of Health Economics A panel of experts, led by the former Deputy Prime Minister, The Honourable Anne McLellan, is recommending a wide ranging series of actions in the areas…
UNBC’s Ninth Canada Research Chair to Study the Relationship Between Water and Health in the North
November 16, 2009 A better understanding of how waterways influence the health of communities, economies, and the world is the focus of the University of Northern British Columbia’s newest Canada…
Healthy food increasingly out of reach for low income people
November 16, 2009 Toronto Medical Officer of Health Dr. David McKeown is calling on the provincial government to ensure that all Ontarians have access to safe, nutritious and culturally acceptable…
SK – More Groups For H1N1 Vaccinations Announced
News Release – November 17, 2009 The H1N1 flu vaccination campaign will be expanded this week to include persons of all ages with an underlying health condition and students from…
Inuit Tobacco-free Network Launched
November 13, 2009 For Immediate Release OTTAWA, ON — Inuit Tuttarvingat of the National Aboriginal Health Organization has created a resource Web site and listserv for Inuit smoking cessation counsellors,…
Neuroscience, Mental Health and Addictions Take Centre Stage at Issues of Substance 2009
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – Nov. 17, 2009 – The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) today announced that Issues of Substance (IOS) 2009-Canada’s biennial national conference on substance abuse-will look…
Issues of Substance 2009 Explores the Role of Substance Abuse Treatment Through a National Treatment Strategy in Canada
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – Nov. 16, 2009 – The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) today announced that it will open Issues of Substance (IOS) 2009, Canada’s biennial conference on…
