QUEEN’S PARK, ON — Official Opposition NDP Children and Youth critic Monique Taylor said that hundreds of staff layoffs at ErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development are leaving families worried that the services their children need to thrive will not be there for them. Taylor was joined [Read more]
DATE: Wednesday, June 19, 2019TIME: 1:00 pmLOCATION: Thunder Bay District Health Unit Main Office Boardroom THUNDER BAY & DISTRICT, ON – The Thunder Bay District Board of Health will be holding a Regular Board of Health Meeting on [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – June 17, 2019 was a day of celebration as St. Joseph’s Care Group affirmed its commitment to working with Indigenous Peoples. The day began with a traditional ceremony opening the Spiritual Gathering Lodge, Nigoos-aat-awin, led by Elder Ernie Kwandibens, an Elder from [Read more]
Click here to view full newsletter a web page. In this issue: New questionnaire now available – We want to know your work story! Your work story could help fill a knowledge gap OHS data are now part of a global cancer collaboration What made you participate in the OHS? Participants make OHS [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Saturday, May *, 2019 the Manitouwadge Cancer Assistance Group (MCAG) held it’s annual Share the Care Walk; an open challenge to all residents to make a silver donation and walk, bike or run a predertimed 5km route. The route travels Manitou Road from the Recreation [Read more]
GREENSTONE, ON – On the 10 of May 2019 at 1:47 pm members of the Greenstone Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Detachment attended a residence on Osesky Drive in Geraldton, ON to follow up on an investigation. Police were confronted by an individual who threatened police with an edged weapon [Read more]
The 7 public health units in Northern Ontario will be working together on climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation reports over the next 2 years with funding support from Health Canada. Climate change is a threat to human health around the world. The changing environment resulting [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – April 10th, the Manitouwadge Family Health Team’s Registered Dietician, Kiera MacKenzie, hosted a kids’ cooking competition at the Manitouwadge High School. Competitors, ages 10-14 years old, could enter individually, or in teams of 2 or 3 chefs. The young [Read more]
QUEEN’S PARK, ON — Marit Stiles, Ontario NDP Education critic, said the Ford Conservatives’ announcement today falls woefully short of what will be needed as cuts to autism services send an influx of kids with high needs into the school system on April 1. Educators and parents have been [Read more]
The Enteric Outbreak that identified Norovirus on the Acute care side of Geraldton District Memorial Hospital was declared over February 16, 2019 at 10:00am. All restrictions have been lifted. The Health Unit is urging people to refrain from visiting hospitals and long-term care [Read more]
Version française ci-dessous It’s no secret that the cost of just getting by is going up for Canadians. Even when we find a little relief on one front, it seems there is another way to make life more expensive to counteract that. That’s why more than half of Canadians are $200 or [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – Lakehead University’s Dr. Kathryn Sinden is receiving $100,534 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a study that will assist firefighters who experience post-traumatic stress injury while on the job in Thunder Bay. Dr. Sinden, assistant professor in [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – The Holy Angels Kindergarten students wanted to know why do we have to brush our teeth? So they learned from our friends the Storybots, and Annie and Moby from Brain Pop Jr. about the bacteria and plaque in their mouths. They learned that to keep their mouths and teeth healthy [Read more]
The long awaited update to the Canada Food Guide has arrived and it bears little resemblance to its predecessor. In many ways the guide is catching up to the leaps in research that have increasingly singled out highly processed food and sugar as drivers of the obesity epidemic and the growth in [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – Holy Angels Catholic School would like to thank Thunder Bay District Health Unit for the Northern Fruit & Vegetable Program – we enjoyed carrots and apples this week and look forward to the weekly shipments of fresh “goodies” until June. [Read more]
