Getting the Most Out of Summer Food
By Melodie Ho, RD Living on the Prairies is more often associated with the cold and seemingly never-ending winters than it is the sunny, hot summers that come and go …
International Elder Abuse Awareness Day: What does it mean this June 15th?
Marina Cewick (B.H.Ecol.) & Kerstin Roger (PhD) Each year, personal care homes host community walks for International Elder Abuse Awareness Day (IEAAD). This year, that likelihood seems grim. Many personal …
Thrive or (Just) Survive – What Will Happen With Organizations After the Pandemic?
How will the organization(s) you belong to survive the pandemic? Perhaps you were required to shift your operations to allow staff to work from home. Alternatively, you made the difficult …
Find Satisfaction by Setting a Schedule
By Jenny Giesbrecht, IPHE In a time where all you have is time – do you ever feel like you wasted the day? Although our routines have been thrown out …
Handling Student Stress During a Pandemic
By Carla Falkevitch, PHEc We all feel stress, anxiety, fear, and loneliness during this time. The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the consequences of Covid-19 and the effects …
How to parent through a pandemic and work from home
By Diana Mager, PHEc Are your mini-coworkers challenging your work day schedule? Learning how to negotiate work time and space with your partner in a makeshift home office? Feeling like …
Kids and Teens Can Prep Meals Too!
By Tressa Alexiuk, PHEcWhile those not dealing with the very worst of the global COVID-19 outbreak are fortunate, everyone is affected to some degree by the stresses of adaptation and …
What is a teen clinic?
By Kendra Monk, IPHE/Interim Professional Home Economist “Hello! My name is Kendra, and I am a teen clinic counsellor. Have you ever been to a teen clinic before?” This is …
Tips for Using Common Food Bank Finds
Stretching food budgets and using foods donated from food banks comes second nature to many responsible for feeding children and adults in community organizations. But even the best of us …
New free resource from the Aboriginal Nutrition Network now available!
The Aboriginal Nutrition Network (ANN) has a series of indigenous recipes, available on the Dietitians of Canada website. These wonderful recipes came from all over Canada, from contest submissions, to volunteers at ANN …