Visit With University Libraries and Pat Walker Health Center’s Medical Services at Carnival Today

The Division of Finance and Administration invites university employees to attend the Making Your Day Work Carnival. This unique event serves not only to showcase the various departments across campus who work to enhance the overall employee experience, but also to raise awareness among employees regarding the diverse and exceptional services offered by the university that may be overlooked in the hustle of daily routines. 

This event offers an opportunity for staff and faculty to connect face-to-face with units they may have previously interacted with only virtually or over the phone. It will feature a “Family Feud” style game show with Chancellor Robinson — winners will receive lunch for their department. Attendees can visit the registration table upon arriving to collect a wristband and tickets to receive items at each booth. Snacks and small bites will be provided.

KEY DETAILS

  • Date:  Today

  • Time:  11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

  • Location:  Arkansas Union Ballroom and Connections Lounge

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DEPARTMENT SPOTLIGHT: UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

The University Libraries support the research, teaching and learning needs of the campus community. They offer ebooks and physical books for studies or leisure reading, databases for research and streaming music and videos. The Office of Scholarly Communications offers free writing and publishing services, and the Special Collections Division provides access to rare and unique materials. Their Research and Instruction services include subject librarian consultations, librarian-authored research guides, free workshops, assistance with citations and more.

Group study rooms and flex-space rooms can be reserved online. There is a dedicated Faculty and Graduate Student Reading Room in MULN 333, as well as a Family Study Space in MULN 464 specifically for caregivers, where any member

Minor injury and illness clinic set to open in Brandon this fall, premier says

The province is banking on a $1-million investment to reduce ER wait times with the opening of a minor injury and illness clinic in Brandon.

The clinic, expected to open in September, is part of $17 million earmarked in the provincial budget, rolling out April 2, to open five primary care clinics and three minor injury and illness clinics in Manitoba, Premier Wab Kinew announced at the Brandon Regional Health Centre  on Wednesday.

“This minor injury and illness clinic, it effectively functions somewhat like an urgent care centre,” Kinew said. “It’s for those less acute conditions.

“It’s not quite at the level of ER, but you do need to get addressed right away.”

Mayor Jeff Fawcett said emergency rooms in Brandon and across Canada are facing challenges.

He said it’s also been concerning to see walk-in clinics closing in the city.

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Uzoma Asagwara. minister of health, seniors and long-term care, says the clinic will help reduce wait times at the Brandon Regional Health Centre emergency room. (Chelsea Kemp/CBC)

“Our ER in Brandon has been stretched,” Fawcett said. “This is a well-needed service in Brandon.”

The Brandon clinic will be staffed by doctors, nurse practitioners and nurses who will provide primary health-care services and support for minor health-care concerns. Patients will be able to book same-day appointments and connect with health-care providers via the Virutal Care Resource Centre.

It will operate 12 hours a day, seven days a week as a starting point, Kinew said. An interim site will open in Brandon this September while Prairie Mountain Health identifies a permanent location.

Brandon is a growing city and health-care needs are growing in tandem, said Uzoma Asagwara, health, seniors and long-term care minister.

The province estimates the new clinic could see more than 700 people every week..

“Wait times are

Why your plans to age in place need to start now

Q&As

Aging in place means staying in your home for as long as you are able.

Most people aspire to it, but few people know how to position themselves for it—or that they need to start this decades in advance.

Dr. Karen Humphreys aims to change that with her new book, The Mission of Maya and Methuselah. The clinical instructor from UBC’s faculty of medicine and internal medicine specialist pulls together advice on fitness, functionality and financial health for the wave of Canadian baby boomers who may soon find themselves in a social safety net that is fraying under their weight.

Who did you write this book for?

Dr. Karen Humphreys

The book is geared for adults 40-plus who are either dealing with aging parents or aging grandparents. It’s a guide for families to help individuals in those age brackets take steps to remain in their own home for as long as they can.

Everyone wants to age in place, but the reality is if you’re not functionally fit—mentally and physically—that isn’t an option. This is much like preventative medicine for heart disease, in that we need to start early in our 40s and 50s to change that trajectory. By the time people get to the medical ward and they’re already frail, it’s too late.

What does the book’s title mean?

Maya is a persona I named after the poet Maya Angelou. There are scenarios in the book where Maya is in her 50s, with a mother in her 70s. For every decade of life—50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s—there’s a clinical scenario, and then there’s nutrition and lifestyle advice.

Methuselah is another persona, based on an acquaintance of mine who was 93 and danced with people who were 20

UMix hosts ‘SustainaBALL’ Showcasing Sustainable Clothing

More than 100 University of Michigan students gathered in the Michigan League to attend “Sustainaball” to celebrate sustainable fashion and student-led environmentalism Friday evening. The event, hosted by VIPs Club, featured educational activities and crafting opportunities in collaboration with other U-M sustainability organizations such as Eco Threads. The “ball” culminated in the first VIPs Club Fashion Show, where individuals walked the runway in handmade clothing pieces created by students with a focus on eco-friendly materials. 

In an interview with The Michigan Daily, LSA senior Sophia Kamien, secretary of the nonprofit VIPs Fund, the nonprofit stemming from the VIPs Club, said the fashion show’s collection aims to promote a one-of-a-kind message through clothing design. 

“It’s a love story for sustainable fashion, everything is made by students, for students,” Kamien said. “The pieces are unique fiber arts projects which are all sustainably made, all upcycled and for the planet.” 

LSA senior Daphne Matter, founder and CEO of the VIPs Club and nonprofit, said the student organization often fundraises for community-oriented conservation projects. The organization had a table showcasing handmade crochet pieces, which were for sale during the event. Matter said the money made from selling the crochet pieces featured in the show would be put toward a fund to protect endangered species. 

“We are a community of artists who use secondhand and sustainable materials to make wearable art pieces,” Daphne said. “All of the profits from selling those goes straight into wildlife conservation programs.” 

In addition to the fashion show, “Sustainaball” offered a variety of activities for students to participate in, such as crochet and knitting workshops, zine-making, trivia, mending stations and a clothing swap. 

LSA junior Misha Patel told The Daily she thought “Sustainaball” was a great opportunity to spend time with friends and relax through

Bilodeau: Traditional thinking isn’t going to fix Canada’s health care

The Canada Health Act was a good solution for its time, but hanging on to it with a kind of religious fervour will just make things worse. No policy is good forever.

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If there were easy solutions to the current crisis in our health-care system, they would likely have been found by now. Playing every few years with the structure, like most provinces do — centralizing-decentralizing-recentralizing — has produced no observable improvement.

Our system has been deteriorating for a number of years, and repairing what has been broken will also take a long time. So I am not proposing a solution but rather a series of ideas that may, over a decade or so, lead to significant improvement.

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Ontario budget: billions of dollars of new funding for health care





Liam Casey, The Canadian Press







Published Tuesday, March 26, 2024 4:21PM EDT






Last Updated Tuesday, March 26, 2024 4:50PM EDT

TORONTO – Ontario is set to inject billions of new dollars into health care, the budget for the upcoming fiscal year shows.

The province said it is investing $2 billion over three years in home care services, nearly $1 billion more for hospitals and hundreds of millions to expand primary care coverage.

“Ontarians are also counting on us to maintain a strong health-care system now and for future generations,” said Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy as he released the budget on Tuesday.

The province previously committed $1 billion over three years as part of its reforms for home and community care, which sees care providedat home or in a community setting by nurses, personal support workers and others.

“I don’t know many people who don’t want to age at home with their loved ones in familiar surroundings,” Bethlenfalvy said.

The finance minister said the new money for home care will be spent on increasing compensation for nurses, personal support workers and other front-line home care providers.

“A big chunk of this money is going to supporting the wages and recruiting and retaining more health-care workers so they can take care of people where they want to be taken care of,” Bethlenfalvy said.

Home care agencies have struggled to attract and retain nurses and personal support workers because there is more pay for those professions in hospitals and long-term care homes.

Home Care Ontario, which represents agencies that provide about 28,000 health-care workers who are sent to people’s homes, applauded the new funding.

“Today’s historic investment in the province’s home care system is great news for

Surgical procedure information added to MySaskHealth record

Saskatchewan patients have even more of their own health information at their fingertips with the addition of a new Surgical Procedures feature on MySaskHealthRecord accounts.

The feature is a first in Canada and with its introduction, anyone with an account can now see information about upcoming surgeries, including:

* Scheduled procedure date

* Specialist/surgeon’s name

* Procedure name(s)

* Procedure location

* Status of procedure

Accounts will also contain information about surgical procedures performed from 2018 onwards.

“MySaskHealthRecord puts important personal health information literally in the palm of a patient’s hand,” Mental Health and Addictions, Seniors and Rural and Remote Health Minister Tim McLeod said. “Saskatchewan continues to lead in allowing patients to access their own personal health information in an easy-to-use format. I’m happy to say that we’re the first province to make information about upcoming surgical procedures available to patients through their online health record.”

The Surgical Procedures feature will be accessible online and via the app for anyone who has a MySaskHealthRecord account. Patients awaiting surgery should already be able to see information about their upcoming procedures. Patients can also sign up for push notifications, alerting them to information.

“When patients like me can access medical information, it lets us become active participants in our own health care and reduces the anxiety that can come from not knowing,” Patient Family Partner Wendy Kopciuch said. “Having access to information about upcoming surgical procedures means I can have informed conversations with my health care team, and also arrange my personal and professional life to accommodate my surgery date.”

“Well-informed patients are better prepared for appointments with their health care providers and can be more directly involved in decisions impacting their surgical procedures,” Provincial Department Head of Surgery for the Saskatchewan Health Authority Dr. Michael Kelly said. “When patients can

9 Sustainable Fashion Apps To Green Up Your Clothing & Closet

We all know the phrase, “There’s an app for that,” and dressing clean and green is no different. 

These sustainable fashion apps make curating a conscious closet easier than ever. 

Whether it’s shopping for preloved clothing, finding new clothes by ethical brands, or recycling unloved garments, there’s an app to turn your smartphone into a sustainable fashion superstar.

Our Curated List Of Sustainable & Ethical Clothing Apps

1. Good On You

Sustainable Fashion Apps by Good On You
Images by pebble magazine and Good On You

Good On You’s Sustainable Fashion App 

Good On You is one of the best sustainable clothing apps for finding ethical brands that put their money where their mouth is.

More than a million people use it to shop ethically and share their views on popular brands.

Use it to check and compare brands based on their comprehensive rating system which scores them a number out of five from ‘We Avoid’ (1) to ‘Great’ (5) based on their impact on people, planet and animals. 

The app has over 3000 ethical brand ratings; if you can’t find one, you can ask them to rate it.

You can also discover sustainable fashion tips and edits, browse ethical brands and receive exclusive offers from highly rated brands.

2. thredUP

Sustainable Fashion Apps by thredUP
Images by pebble magazine and thredUP

thredUP’s Fashion Resale App

thredUP brings all the fun of thrifting as a means of sustainable clothing shopping to your cell phone.

The online consignment store has an app which lets you buy and sell secondhand clothes and accessories from over 55k name brands, including Zara, Patagonia, and Gucci.

Find vintage and secondhand styles with prices up to 90% off the retail price. 

Currently, the app only supports women’s and kids’ clothes but there are over 1,000 new arrivals daily. You can also set up notifications for price drops and

Lebanon Travel Advice & Safety

The security situation in the region remains unpredictable and could deteriorate with little or no warning.

Political changes in the region and international events may prompt large demonstrations or violence. Planned and on-the-spot demonstrations can take place.

Anti-government protests occur. Protests may target key institutions and sites, including banks. Some can be large and escalate into violent clashes between protesters and security forces.

Authorities use various measures to break up crowds, including:

  • water cannons
  • tear gas 
  • live ammunition

These measures have resulted in injuries.

Public protests and events that draw large groups of people can turn violent, including the use of weapons. You could be caught in violence directed at others.

During civil unrest and times of heightened tensions:

  • avoid all crowds, protests and demonstrations
  • pay close attention to your personal security
  • monitor the media and other sources for news on planned and possible actions
  • avoid areas where violence has occurred or is likely to occur
  • plan your activities to avoid potential unrest on days of national significance
  • be prepared to change your travel plans in case of disruptions

If you’re in an area affected by clashes:

  • stay indoors and away from windows and balconies
  • follow the advice of local authorities

Stay indoors during celebratory gunfire, which has caused casualties, and often happens during and after political speeches, weddings, funerals and religious and new year holidays. 

If transport disruptions affect your travel plans, contact your airline, travel agent or insurer for help.

Leave Lebanon if you’re concerned about your safety.

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Beirut

In times of civil unrest, avoid areas of Beirut where protests are known to occur.

In Beirut, protests sometimes close main highways. Burning of tyres to block main roads is common. Groups protest against:

  • government policies
  • the situation in Syria
  • the security environment
  • the deteriorating social and

Doctors Nova Scotia concerned about proposed changes to health information law

The organization that represents more than 3,500 physicians, medical students and residents in Nova Scotia is concerned with provisions in legislation introduced by the minister of finance on March 5 as part of the budget process.

Doctors Nova Scotia said clauses in the Financial Measures Act to amend the Personal Health Information Act would grant the minister of health and her department expanded access to the health records of Nova Scotians.

“The way that the legislation is written is quite broad and it’s not entirely clear the information they might be accessing,” Dr. Colin Audain, president of Doctors Nova Scotia, told CBC Radio’s Information Morning on Thursday.

The second last clause in the 35-page bill would amend the law governing health records by including an additional obligation for doctors and other care providers “to disclose personal health information to the minister or a person acting on behalf of the minister for the purposes of planning and management of the health system, resource allocation and creating or maintaining electronic health record programs and services.”

Audain said Health Department officials have told his organization that the purpose is to allow patients to access their own records through the YourHealthNS app the province launched last November.

The department also said it wants to collect aggregate information in order to better plan services or reallocate resources.

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Michelle Thompson is Nova Scotia’s health minister. (Robert Short/CBC)

“As far as we know, the information that they’re looking for right now is fairly narrow, and it includes things like the date of a visit, the provider’s name, the reason for the visit and the results of diagnostic imaging, blood and other lab tests,” said Audain.

“But I think what we’re concerned about is the broad nature of the legislation, and the fact that if there were other

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