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Toronto, Ontario
October 1, 2010

Toronto, Ontario
August 20, 2010

Regular physical activity is a vital cornerstone in leading a healthy life, for children and adults. This article addresses the importance of helping all children to achieve physical literacy at a young age and provides an update on steps being taken in Alberta by Canadian Sport for Life (CS4L) and other key stakeholders to better promote physical literacy to all Albertans.

The article is available on the Alberta Centre for Active Living website: http://www.centre4activeliving.ca/publications/wellspring/2010/aug-liter...

Toronto, Ontario
June 15, 2010

Groundbreaking Canadian Research Reveals Financial and Workplace Impact of a Breast Cancer Diagnosis

80 per cent of women experienced a financial impact; 16 per cent had their jobs terminated

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Canadian Institute for Health Information is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides essential data and analysis on Canada’s health system and the health of Canadians. CIHI tracks data in many areas, thanks to information supplied by hospitals, regional health authorities, medical practitioners and governments. Other sources provide further data to help inform CIHI’s in-depth analytic reports. The CIHI website includes research and reports, data and standards at http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/splash.html.

The Ontario Rural Council acts as a catalyst for rural dialogue, collaboration, action and advocacy, and offers a vital venue for the province's collective rural voice. Individually, each of TORC’s members shares a commitment to healthy, vibrant rural communities, businesses and organizations. Collectively, it identifies and discusses complex rural issues through a collaborative approach that ultimately serves to strengthen the rural voice in Ontario and communicates to the province's policy- and decision-makers.

The Gateway Rural Health Research Institute is the brainchild of a group of residents and healthcare professionals in a rural Ontario community in Huron County who propose to create a centre to research healthcare issues in rural populations, the first community-driven rural research centre in Canada. Most of healthcare-related research conducted in Canada and elsewhere is based on results of surveys taken of test populations close to large urban medical centres of learning or practice, with projections of results for rural sector populations.

Ontario’s Action Plan for Healthy Eating and Active Living is available on the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion’s website at http://www.mhp.gov.on.ca/english/health/HEAL/actionplan-EN.pdf.

Small Towns: Big Impact. Selected Findings from the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Research into Grantmaking in Small Ontario Communities 2007 is available at http://www.trilliumfoundation.org/cms/en/html/sm_towns_grantmaking07.asp....