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  WE LOVE AUTUM IN CANADA We love autum in Canada. Perhaps it is the most magical time to enjoy our country with its carnival of bright red, orange, and yellow leaves. We start seeing the change of colours in September but it is the October that this magical transformation reaches its peak. This year we are also blessed with an unusually warm weather and lots of sunshine which makes it the best time to visit our parks to truly appreciate the beauty of our country.    October is also the Breast Cancer Awareness Month   The month of October also marks the...

    Universal masking is one of the prevention strategies recommended by CDC to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (1). As of February 1, 2021, 38 states and the District of Columbia had universal masking mandates. Mask wearing has also been mandated by executive order for federal property* as well as on domestic and international transportation conveyances.† Masks substantially reduce exhaled respiratory droplets and aerosols from infected wearers and reduce exposure of uninfected wearers to these particles. Cloth masks§ and medical procedure masks¶ fit more loosely than do respirators (e.g., N95 facepieces). The effectiveness of cloth and...

  As we are getting near September, parents are becoming anxious to see how the new school year will look like, even though we learned by now that anything can change dramatically in a matter of days.  Ontario's schools stayed closed longer than any other province since the pandemic began. This school term Ontario's more than two million students (and maybe their parents more than the students) are hopeful that back to school will resemble some sort of normalcy and will look much better than last year.  Even with the Delta variant progressing exponentially we have reasons to believe this...

    Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), known as “The Lady With the Lamp,” was a British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. In honour of Florence Nightingale’s birthday, May 12, May 6-12 is celebrated as National Nursing Week.   Her experiences as a nurse during the Crimean War were foundational in her views about sanitation. She established St. Thomas’ Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in 1860. Her efforts to reform healthcare greatly influenced the quality of care in the 19 and 20 centuries.    Florence Nightingale: Early Life Florence Nightingale was...

    Canada officially turned the second year of the pandemic Today marks the first anniversary of the day Canada's first COVID-19 case was confirmed. Our very first case in Canada was an Ontarion who had recently been in Wuhan, China and fallen ill after coming back to Canada. Prior to today last year, the 25th of January, most of us had never imagined being locked down at our homes, quarantined at a cruise ship for months, keeping our physical distance when talking to each other, wearing a mask, not being able to touch and hug our family members or...