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Natures Wisdom Meets Indulgence For A Happy Healthier You

on January 25th, 2025 by The Afro News
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Wisely Wellness is launching a luxury wellness chocolate bar that will tantalize your senses and remedy your daily performance quotient. In a TAN Media interview with the Mastermind Creators of this wellness chocolate bar they had this to say about their Wisely Chocolate product line: 1- What is the inspiration and motivation behind the wisely wellness brand?  The inspiration behind

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Health & Home, Health and Fitness, Local News, News, The Bridge Tagged as: chocolate, chocolate as a luxury treat, eating chocolate, luxury treat, luxury wellness chocolate bar, Wisely Wellness

Ontario Coroner’s Report Reveals Troubling MAiD Trends 

on November 27th, 2024 by The Afro News

The gaps in Canadian law around MAiD are glaring. Canadian lawmakers cannot afford to wait and see what happens – they must act now.  Recent reports from the Office of the Chief Coroner (OCC) of Ontario reveal troubling trends about Ontarians accessing MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) due to socioeconomic and psychological vulnerabilities. The OCC’s

Filed under: Canadian News, Familly Matters, Health and Fitness, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Canadian lawmakers, community services, counselling, disability supports, palliative care, psychological, socioeconomic, vulnerabilities

CJMAS Announces Fundraising Walk in Conjunction with Vancouver Sun Run Event Surrey

on March 30th, 2024 by The Afro News

CJMAS Announces Fundraising Walk in Conjunction with Vancouver Sun Run Event Surrey, BC March 10, 2024 – Canadian Jamaican Medical Assistance Society (CJMAS), a prominent charity dedicated to promoting health and education initiatives in Jamaica, is excited to announce its virtual participation in the upcoming Vancouver Sun Run via its annual special fundraising walk on

Filed under: Canadian News, Events, Health and Fitness, Local News, Sports News Tagged as: health and education in Jamaica, Vancouver Sun Run Event Surrey

Committee Made the Right Call to Delay MAiD Expansion 

on March 18th, 2024 by The Afro News

The debate over medically assisted suicide continues because of safety concerns for the mentally ill  

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Familly Matters, Health & Home, Health and Fitness, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Canadian Parliamentary committee, MAiD Expansion, mentally ill, physical illness or disability

Short on Family Doctors? Nurse Practitioners Can Help  

on November 29th, 2023 by The Afro News

Alberta plan to empower nurse practitioners is an innovative approach to healthcare reform   Nearly one in eight Albertans don’t have access to a family doctor.  That makes for roughly 600,000 of our fellow citizens who don’t have a physician regularly following up on their health and tracking its evolution.   Alberta Premier Danielle Smith

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Familly Matters, Health & Home, Health and Fitness, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: family doctors, family physicians, healthcare reform, Nurse practitioners

Fixing Canada’s Family Doctor Crisis  

on November 8th, 2023 by The Afro News

Canada is facing a severe family doctor shortage. Here is how we can fix it   In our neighbourhood, there are many “everyone deserves a family doctor” signs. The sentiment isn’t surprising, but it’s based on the fantasy that putting up a sign will somehow create more doctors.   The reality is that Canada faces

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Familly Matters, Health & Home, Health and Fitness, Local News, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Canada’s physician shortage, family doctor shortage, primary care.

Zimbabwe Health Finance Model Unsustainable: Top Research Economist 

on November 8th, 2023 by Patrick Musira

Zimbabwe’s current health financing model remains highly unsustainable as it relies heavily on external financing and out-of-pocket financing, says Dr Prosper Chitambara, senior research economist and policy advisor and currently a member of the Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ.)    The intersection of public underinvestment – in history and in the here-and-now

Filed under: Health and Fitness, International News, World Tagged as: African Parliamentary, child mortality, HIV prevalence, village health workers.

Assisted Suicide Expansion for Mentally ill Premature  

on October 31st, 2023 by The Afro News

82 percent of Canadians demand mental health reform before expanding assisted suicide  Fix mental healthcare first. That’s a key takeaway from new poll results, which found that 82 percent of Canadians agree improving access to mental health care should happen before expanding “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) to those with mental illness as their sole

Filed under: Canadian News, Familly Matters, Health & Home, Health and Fitness, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, Self Improvement, The Bridge Tagged as: assisted suicide, mental health law., mental healthcare, mental illness

Safe Supply Programs Creating a Surge in New Opioid Users  

on October 23rd, 2023 by The Afro News

Federal government faces pressure to rethink its safe supply opioid policies  How many doctors does it take to change a government policy killing young Canadians?   Seventeen? Maybe.  That’s the number of medical addictions specialists who drafted an enlightening open letter to the federal government to tell them that the current safe/safer supply programs for opioid

Filed under: Canadian News, Familly Matters, Health & Home, Health and Fitness, Local News, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Canada’s addiction specialists, opioid epidemic, opioid policies, opioid users., safe supply

Rents Are Out of Control, But let’s Not Blame ‘The Market’ For Our Woes

on February 27th, 2023 by The Afro News

Because rent increases are well above wages, entire cities are becoming unaffordable for working familie A new report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) shows that rents are skyrocketing in many, if not most, Canadian cities. No surprise there. But this year’s annual report also documents, for the first time, rent increases in

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Health and Fitness, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: rent increases, vacant units, working families.
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