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Always a significant holiday for proud Canadians, Canada Day celebrates the birth of Canada as an independent nation; when New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Canada Province came together as one nation. This historical event was when Canada gained independence from...

The Stiltz Trio Home Elevator is a wheelchair lift where function and practicality meet style and cutting-edge design. If you are one of the many Canadians who need a little help getting around the upstairs of your home or suffer with mobility issues requiring the use...

What is Red Shirt Day? This May sees the fifth annual Red Shirt Day celebration. Red Shirt Day by Easter Seals Canada is a day to show support for persons with disabilities, promote accessibility and highlight the importance of inclusion. Every Wednesday of ‘National...

Multigenerational Living Houses where multiple generations of families live under one roof, has been on the rise for the last two decades. The 2021 census discovered that multi-generational households have risen 50 per cent since 2021, amounting to almost 442,000...

First launched in 2008, International Wheelchair Day is celebrated every March 1 for wheelchair users to celebrate the impact their wheelchair has had on their lives. Whether manual, powered, transit, self-propelled, folding, rigid, tilt-in-space, or anything else,...

This February 19 will be National Family Day across Canada and provides the perfect opportunity while the weather is still cold and we are still keen to hunker down and stay at home, to get the wider family together and appreciate this time. How about considering a...

Canada’s seniors’ population continues to grow, and with this demographic already having tripled in size over the last 40 years, it is expected to grow to 10.4 million over 75-year-olds by 2037. This was identified in a report by the Canadian Urban Institute in 2019....

The holiday period is a time of happiness, gratitude, and coming together with friends and family. For lots of households, Christmas offers the comfort of family gatherings, the sparkle of Christmas lights, and the sweet smells of tasty meals filling the room....

A recent study found that the most common form of arthritis, osteoarthritis, currently affects 15 per cent of the global population over the age of 30. However, by 2050 as many as a billion people worldwide are expected to have this condition. The study was published...

In his statement on World Mental Health Day the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau acknowledged ‘Mental health is health…One in five people in Canada are living with mental illness and one in three people will experience mental illness in their lifetime’. These are...