Tag: Canada

  • Infographic: The Wage Gap

    Infographic: The Wage Gap

      By Vineeth Sekharan Homelessness is closely connected to issues of poverty, inadequate income and unemployment. This week’s infographic takes a look at the wage gap that exists between part-time and temporary workers compared to full-time workers doing the same job in Ontario. The content in this infographic is drawn from Still Working On The Edge,…

  • Room 217 Foundation Launches Pathways Singing Program for Memory Care

    Room 217 Foundation Launches Pathways Singing Program for Memory Care

    Room 217 Foundation will be launching the Pathways Singing Program for memory care at the Music Care Conference being held Saturday, Nov. 7 in Mississauga. The Foundation is a registered Canadian charity dedicated to creating resources for caregivers to integrate music into their care setting. Pathways is the Foundation’s non-pharmacological response to the issues faced…

  • Federal election: small business owners will take substance over style

    Survey shows entrepreneurs will vote for best policies  Toronto – With Election Day just over the horizon, Canada’s small business owners will be looking to policy over personality when it comes time to cast their ballots. According to a CFIB survey conducted this week, a majority of small business owners said the party platform was the…

  • Curlingtown Junior Curling Clinics

    Curlingtown Junior Curling Clinics

    Olympic hopeful Team Steve Laycock, based out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan has kicked off the 4th annual Decisive Farming CurlingTown presented by Crescent Point Energy. This program strives to promote interest and skill development of the sport of curling in communities across the Canadian prairies. Local curling clubs located in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba can apply…

  • Hunger And Nutrition

    Hunger And Nutrition

    In Canada, hunger is largely a hidden problem. Many Canadians are simply not aware that large numbers of children, women and men in this country often go to bed hungry. Hunger is caused by low-income. While anyone is at risk of food insecurity at some point in their lives, certain groups are particularly vulnerable. 47.8%…

  • How the parties propose to help young Canadians save for retirement

    How the parties propose to help young Canadians save for retirement

    By focusing only on adapting CPP and QPP policy, we risk tightening the squeeze being felt by young Canadians By Paul Kershaw, Founder of Generation Squeeze VANCOUVER, BC/ Troy Media/ – With Statistics Canada showing that a smaller proportion of seniors currently fall below low-income cut-offs than any other age group, the concern is that younger Canadians…

  • Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Complementary Medicine

    Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Complementary Medicine

      What is Complementary Medicine? “Complementary medicine” is a broad term to describe any approach to health and medicine (including treatment and prevention) that’s outside the realm of conventional medicine and clinical practice in our health care system. Complementary therapies are used to improve wellness, prevent disease or treat health problems. Acupuncture, yoga, massage, Chinese…

  • Trans-Pacific Partnership to Impact Canadian Dairy Farmers

    Trans-Pacific Partnership to Impact Canadian Dairy Farmers

    Ottawa – Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) has been informed that the final agreement of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) includes market access concessions on dairy products. Some time is needed to fully evaluate the impacts of the agreement on our industry, but DFC’s initial assessment is that in order to secure this trade agreement for Canada,…

  • Canada Concludes Free Trade Agreement with Trans-Pacific Partners

    Ottawa, Ontario – The Government of Canada today announced that the members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have successfully concluded negotiations on a free trade agreement that will benefit Canada’s economy. The TPP agreement will give Canada preferential access to dynamic and growing Asia-Pacific markets. Tariffs and other barriers faced by a wide range of…

  • The Fire Horses of Yesteryear

    The Fire Horses of Yesteryear

      Today, wailing sirens announce the approach of massive fire trucks, but starting around the 1830s in some American cities, it was sturdy horses that got the apparatus and firemen to the fire scenes. Up to that point, men were the only form of horsepower but with the arrival of the horses a whole new…

  • Who Will You Vote For? – 2015 Federal Election

    Who Will You Vote For? – 2015 Federal Election

    Due to the very long campaign period for this 2015 Federal Election the Gateway Gazette decided not to inundate our readers with election articles. Now as the voting day gets closer we have decided to post one article per business day on each of the Foothills Candidates giving you their bios and links to their…

  • Ten Things to Know About Homelessness in Canada

    Ten Things to Know About Homelessness in Canada

      By Nick Falvo,Calgary Homeless Foundation I recently gave a presentation at Raising the Roof’s Child & Family Homelessness Stakeholder Summit in Toronto. My slide deck can be downloaded here. To accompany the presentation, I’ve prepared the following list of “Ten Things to Know About Homelessness in Canada.” 1. Efforts to enumerate persons experiencing homeless have generally…

  • Walmart Canada supports families in need: launches annual Red Cross fundraising campaign

    Walmart Canada supports families in need: launches annual Red Cross fundraising campaign

      Sets $2.6 million goal for this year’s campaign (Calgary, Alta.) From October 1 to 23, 2015, Walmart stores in Alberta are taking part in the national fundraising campaign to support Canadian Red Cross disaster preparedness and response activities in the province and throughout the country. The goal for stores in Alberta is $400, 000. Beginning on…

  • The Importance of Retirement Income Planning

      By Kim Inglis A study by BMO Global Asset Management found that one quarter of already-retired Canadians are surprised to find their savings are not as sufficient as they thought. A key factor is that people are living longer. Statistics Canada says the average Canadian male will live 84 years and females 87 years,…

  • Farmers Fight False Information about Supply Management

    Farmers Fight False Information about Supply Management

    For months, Canadian farmers have endured a concerted attack on the system that brings Canadians the dairy, poultry and egg products they trust. As the pressure to conclude the TPP negotiations in Hawaii (in July) mounted, so did rhetoric and the proliferation of misperceptions surrounding supply management through certain attacks in the media, and by some…