Tag - October 2024

Volunteering for Your Health and Everyone Else’s

By Amy VanTorre Volunteering in 2024 looks different from how we’ve traditionally pictured it, but one thing remains the same: It isn’t just good for the people you help, it’s good for your own health, too. Just ask Peter Johansen, who volunteers at the Glebe Centre: “If I didn’t volunteer, I’d be sitting at home doing...

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NANCY HUGGETT  PENS THE POETRY OF CAREGIVING

  By Parker Charles In 1997, Nancy Huggett chronicled the daily adventures of raising her daughter Jessie, who has Down Syndrome, for CBC Radio’s flagship program Morningside. Those segments, read by Nancy herself (once an on-air personality at CKCU), made a sizeable impact on both management and the public. When they were...

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