A family's plan to prevent drowning
July 17-23, 2016 is National Drowning Prevention Week. Parachute Canada has some important information that really frames this topic for me. Did you know? Children under 18 are at greatest ri...
Health awareness
Wordless picture books and pre-literacy
Importance of reading In this day and age, every parent of a preschooler has heard about the importance of reading to his or her child. These moments between caregiver and child are an importa...
Diversity and culture: Celebrating Two-Spirit people
When my aunt was born, the elders of my community knew that she was different from her siblings. They said, "take care of him, he is special." I knew about Two-Spirit people since I was little girl...
It's all about the big picture
This article was co-written by Reg Wulff and Doreen Bond. Did you read our last blog post about the rollout of Northern Health's new and improved Smoke Free Grounds policy? Now that you've had a bi...
Changes in the air
This blog was co-written by Reg Wulff and Doreen Bond You know, it wasn't that long ago that things were a lot different when it came to where a person can smoke. I can remember when smoking w...
Ringing the gong
Spending time at the local range I have to admit that during my time in the army, I really enjoyed the time spent on the firing range. Now, I haven't done any target shooting for a long time, but i...
Bonding with your baby
Have you ever been told that carrying or holding your baby too much will spoil them? This is a common myth held by many parents and caregivers. In fact, the opposite is true! Research has shown tha...