The CHILD Study has a new website!
CHILD’s new website provides updates on discoveries and publications, media and current research. On the new website you can: learn about the Study’s achievements; review grant and publication databases, project descriptions, compilations of media coverage, and summaries of key findings; meet Study participants, the researchers involved, and the people conducting the work on the ground; […]
Parachute introduces the first ever Canadian Guideline on Concussion in Sport
Parachute is thrilled to introduce the first ever Canadian Guideline on Concussion in Sport. Based on the scientific evidence from the 5th International Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport and developed with Parachute’s Expert Advisory Concussion Subcommittee, the comprehensive Canadian Guideline aims to ensure that sport participants with suspected concussions receive timely and appropriate care, and […]
Graduate Student Research Awards
Asthma Canada is proud to announce the launch of a new National Research Program, an initiative to provide grants to young Canadian researchers involved in early-onset and late-onset asthma research. In partnership with AllerGen NCE Inc., in 2017, the Program will grant two awards to Masters level (MSc/MScN) student researchers; and two awards to PhD […]
Canada150: Spotlight on our Collaborating Partners
Happy Canada Day! We asked our Collaborating Partners what they have in store for Canada’s 150th. Read on to learn about some of the exciting child and youth-focused 150 initiatives taking place this year across the Canadian child and youth health and wellbeing sectors. Physical & Health Education Canada View fullsize Celebrate Canada’s 150th in Ottawa, […]
Mark your calendars! National Injury Prevention Day is July 5th
Parachute is excited to introduce National Injury Prevention Day, an important annual recognition day to help build awareness around the devastating impact of injury. Injury is the number one killer of Canadians aged 1 – 44, where one child dies every nine hours. Parachute is launching National Injury Prevention Day to shine a light on […]
Public consultation on restricting unhealthy food and beverage marketing to children
As part of the Healthy Eating Strategy, Health Canada is proposing to restrict the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children. Over the past decade, there has been growing concern about the negative impact of marketing of unhealthy food and beverages on children’s nutritional health. Health Canada is looking for feedback from all interested […]
PregnancyInfo.ca – New website by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) is pleased to announce the release of an exciting new website, PregnancyInfo.ca, to inform women who are pregnant, or planning to become pregnant about the relevant evidence-based information they need for a healthy pregnancy. “This site covers questions from A-Z including important facts on nutrition, vaccination […]
Survey: Physical Literacy Environmental Assessment (PLEA) Tool
This survey is administered by Dr. Brian Timmons and his research team at the Child Health & Exercise Medicine Program at McMaster University. They are developing the Physical Literacy Environmental Assessment (PLEA) Tool, a program evaluation tool for multiple sectors to assess how they are implementing the principles of physical literacy. Physical literacy is defined […]
New UNICEF report: Poor health, violence at alarming rates among Canada’s kids
A new UNICEF report released today highlights the challenges that high-income countries like Canada face in meeting global commitments for children. Canada does comparatively well in some aspects of child and youth well-being, but lags farthest behind other countries in concerning indicators of child health and violence. In Oh Canada! Our Kids Deserve Better, the Canadian […]
Poverty workshops with the Best Start Resource Centre (Ontario)
The Best Start Resource Centre will be holding two poverty workshops in Ontario between October and December 2017. The workshops will be based on the 2017 updated Best Start Resource Centre resource I’m Still Hungry: Child and Family Poverty in Ontario that explores issues of families living in poverty. The two regions will be selected according […]