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Sleep on it!

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A bilingual Canadian Public Health Campaign to promote the importance of sleep in the maintenance of good health. By Julie Carrier, PhD Did you know that sleep deprivation can reduce your reaction speed as much as a blood alcohol level of 0.08g—the legal limit for driving? Or that narcoleptics get drowsy and can fall asleep […]
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Clicking your way to better health: A web-based tool for people living with HIV

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Researchers are now harnessing an online platform to improve wellbeing in people living with HIV. Once considered a death sentence, successfully treated HIV is now a manageable, chronic condition. Joining the nearly half of Canadian adults who have a chronic health condition, people living with HIV and their caregivers are now focusing on wellbeing and […]
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The new, but old, housing trend

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Intergenerational living is becoming increasingly popular with Canadians as a household arrangement in which people from different generations live together under the same roof. By Nathan Lundgaard and Kenneth Chau Tackling a number of current issues like housing affordability, social isolation, sustainability and even healthy aging, the concept of intergenerational living
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The facts: Women and pandemics

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“Across every sphere, from health to the economy, security to social protection, the impacts of COVID-19 are exacerbated for women and girls simply by virtue of their sex,” says a United Nations policy brief. The Canadian Human Rights Commission has echoed this statement with its own, saying: “These disproportionate impacts could have long-term and far […]