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  • Guest post: BC Cycling Coalition’s COVID-19 and Active Transportation

    Travel restrictions, social distancing, and stay-at-home orders have reduced our ability to move around freely.

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    Healthy School Programs, Healthy Kids

    On January 16th, the BC Alliance for Healthy Living hosted an informative webinar on healthy school programs. We heard from the BC Recreation and Parks Association (BCRPA) and the BC Chapter of the Coalition for Healthy School Food, who shared their insights and spoke about two unique projects that they deliver to increase kids’ health…

  • Risky play

    This September I have two new-school-year goals: 1) walk my son to kindergarten (you can read that blog post at bchealthyliving.ca/starting-school/; and 2) encourage his passion for risky play. The first time I heard the term “risky play” was when I was struck by Dr. Mariana Brussoni’s closing presentation at last year’s Public Health Association…

  • Fixing the Three-legged Stool – Mental Illness, Stigma and Employment

    This week I read an astonishing media article, ‘Stigma surrounding mental illness major barrier for employment: report’ I was shocked to read that 90% of Canadians with serious mental illness are unemployed. Such a high number leads to questions about ‘how workplaces support mentally ill employees?’ and ‘what are the policy levers that support both…

  • Let’s Talk About Prevention – Let’s Promote Mental Wellness

    Today is Bell Canada’s ‘Let’s Talk Day’ – a day to encourage conversations about mental health in Canada. The Vancouver Sun editorial yesterday also dealt with the role we all play in reducing the stigma around mental illness. And it’s about time that we started paying attention to this issue – given that mental illness…

  • A Glimpse of Life with Dementia

    What would you do if one day you had trouble counting change to buy a newspaper, or became disoriented on a familiar route behind the wheel of a car? Would you think it was Alzheimer’s disease? Jim Mann from Surrey, B.C. was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease when he was just 58 years old, and at…

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