Health & Safety

I have been sharing with you, my readers, for over 10 years now. As you likely are already aware, not everything that I experience makes it onto the blog. This…

This seems familiar. Maybe not to you, but to me. 17 years ago in March 2003. My son Jake, only 5 at the time, had cancer. Our life was all about social distancing.

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Please accept my wishes for Sophie’s full and speedy recovery. I know that this is not the best time given that you are in self-isolation, but the…

I am going to cut to the chase on this post because while I have much to say about what we’ve been living,  the most important message is this. I…

For this morning’s segment with the fantastic Derick Fage at Breakfast Television Montreal, I shared tips for keeping healthy habits during the winter months. February is a month where many…

This morning on Breakfast Television Montreal, I shared some tips for navigating the highs and lows of flu season with the awesome Derick Fage. You can WATCH by clicking here or by clicking…

Have you been spotting some oddly coloured TEAL pumpkins and wondered what the meaning is behind them? Maybe you have seen them and have already heard about the Teal Pumpkin Project™ or,…

In today’s Live for 5 I showed how to make an Emergency Preparedness Kit.  You can watch the video above. I also wrote a blog post about this with even…

Now that the kids are really back in school, the routines are starting to settle in. For those of us who have given our children the privilege of cell phone use, this…

There are few people that I know (if any), who do not have someone in their lives who has been affected by diabetes.  The Canadian Diabetes Association reports that in…