June is Brain Injury Awareness Month in Canada

By Enabled Financial Solutions

Brain injuries can happen to anyone and the social, emotional and economic consequences for the survivors and their families can be devastating! Costs can be over-whelming. Enabled Financial Solutions Ltd can help recover some of those costs.

Seniors Invited to Donate Blood

On the Trail of Glorious Gardens: Cycling to Victoria

By Rick & Chris Millikan

Taking in Victoria's beautiful blooms by bike.

Between Friends - Love in Action

By Doreen Barber

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back." -Maya Angelou

Playing it Safe

By Jim Tipton

Protect yourself against bugs and bee stings.

The High Cost of Neurological Disease

By Enabled Financial Solutions

Neurological disease has a devastating effect on the quality of life and has a huge economic and social impact. If you are suffering under the burden of some form of neurological disease, you are probably entitled to a disability tax credit.

Stride to Turn the Tide

By Vernice Shostal

I left my heart in Africa," says Beatrice Tellier who taught there for four years. A member of the Victoria Grandmothers for Africa, one of 240 Grandmothers to Grandmothers groups across Canada, Beatrice will join over 5,000 grandmothers and others on June 12 and 13 to cumulatively walk 8,000 kilometres, the distance of Canada from coast to coast, in support of African grandmothers caring for their AIDS-orphaned grandchildren.

Changing Direction

By Martina Goodship

Growing older gracefully involves changing and evolving. It means recognizing that change in your mature years can be positive, and take you in unimaginable directions. Such a change occurred for my friend and business partner, Linda Paquette, and me when she noticed an obscure advertisement for a bra maker's school in the back of a magazine.

Anatomy of a Bra

By Martina Goodship

My business partner, Linda Paquette, and I spent eight weeks in Hamilton, Ontario with Beverly Johnson, learning the art and science of professional bramaking and fitting. For the past two-and-a-half years we have been practising, perfecting and always learning about that mysterious, taken-for-granted garment, "The Bra."

Swifter, Higher, Stronger

By James Ellsworth

People no less significant than VANOC CEO John Furlong and Prime Minister Stephen Harper praised the 25,000 sky-blue-clad "Smurf" volunteers as arguably the real heroes of the XXI Winter Olympic Games; they made the Vancouver 2010 Games tick. Indeed, the journey to be an Olympic volunteer had its own requisite training and endurance.

Not Bad. You?

By William Thomas

So I said, "Harry, how you doin'?"
Harry Muir of Delaware, Ontario, was a promising pitcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization when he was featured in a film I wrote more than a dozen years ago called Chasing The Dream.

Cutting the Costs of Lung Disease

By Enabled Financial Solutions

Perhaps the most common forms of Lung Disease in Canada are asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD.) These diseases affect your whole life, and have an impact on your pocket book too! Enabled Financial can help.

Did You Know?

By Canadian Long Term Care Funding Center Inc.

When Parents Resist Necessary Care

By Nurse Next Door - Victoria, Cowichan Valley, Nanaimo, Parksville

Is Your Parent Resisting Help at home (from someone other than you)? Nearly one-quarter of the population on Vancouver Island is age 65 years or older. This means that there are MANY baby boomer adults looking after their parents locally.

Seniors Must Correct an Iron Deficiency

Iron deficiency affects a large population of men and women. Iron deficiency in seniors is linked with poor health, fatigue, depression and increased dependence on others.