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CARP Haliburton Highlands Chair Fights to Help his Community Heal from a Disaster that Might have Been Averted
Haliburton Highlands CARP Chapter Chair, Bob Stinson’s Open Letter to the Minister of Environment Calls for a Federal Inquiry and for Justice “The residents of Minden Hills are currently struggling to regain some sense of normality following the devastating flood that washed over their properties on April 19th and beyond. The area hardest hit was in the tiny village of … Read more
Cancer Society Looking
for Zooming Zoomers
The road to recovery needs more drivers … Canadian Cancer Society’s Transportation Program This request is from Canadian Cancer Society in Toronto. Contact your local office for other volunteer opportunities Since the early 1960s, the Canadian Cancer Society has provided transportation for people with cancer. We assist clients with their short-term need to travel to attend cancer-specific medical appointments or … Read more
Emergency Preparedness Week in Ontario: A Survival Kit that could benefit all Canadians!
In honour of Ontario’s 18th Annual Emergency Preparedness Week, we would like to share the Emergency Management Ontario’s Emergency Survival Kit with you. Get started and Build an Emergency Survival Kit! Your emergency survival kit should have everything you and your family would need to be safe and take care of yourselves for at least three days immediately following an … Read more
Canada’s largest study of aging recruiting across Canada
Canada is experiencing an unprecedented change in the make-up of its population, with seniors accounting for nearly 15 per cent of all Canadians. By 2036, nearly one in four Canadians will be age 65 or older. With rapid demographic change underway, there is a critical need for high-quality research on aging as well as strong evidence to support the development … Read more
A Bucket List Career: Developing World Connections and Changing lives through international volunteering
Wayne McRann is somewhat typical of his age group when it comes to the number of career changes; however, his last career move is anything but typical. At the age of 55, after working a decade and a half in the mining industry and then over 20 years as a successful small businessman serving the retail store and warehousing sectors, … Read more
CARP NEVER Takes No for an Answer
You might have thought that CARP went to Ottawa to attend the budget lockup but the real purpose was to track down Justin Trudeau and get him to accept one of our invitations… Just kidding! In all seriousness, CARP was on Parliament Hill Thursday (March 21st 2013) to attend the stakeholder budget lockup so that we could be the first out … Read more
Canadian Government votes on Pro-Science Motion
March 20th, 2013: Parliamentarians took a vote today on a motion introduced by NDP Science and Technology critic Kennedy Stewart. The motion was fairly simple, it read:“That, in the opinion of the House, a) public science, basic research, and the free and open exchange of scientific information are essential to evidence-based policy-making; b) federal government scientists must be enabled … Read more
CARP’s Liberal Leadership Forum is a Must See!
CARP hosted a Leadership Forum for 5 of the 6 Liberal Leadership candidates. Present were Martin Cauchon, Joyce Murray, Martha Hall Findlay, Karen McCrimmon and Deborah Coyne. Justin Trudeau was unable to attend due to a prior commitment. The debate was moderated by CARP’s VP of Advocacy, Susan Eng, and featured questions from chapter chairs across the country beamed in … Read more
Discover the Job Service for Mature Canadians: ThirdQuarter—Online and Growing across Canada
ThirdQuarter is an innovative online job service for mature Canadians, aged 45 and over, who are now in their ‘third quarter’ of their professional and working careers. The aim of ThirdQuarter to outreach to all Canadians regarding the matching service provided by staff and with the help of technology. Established in 2010 through a collaboration of the chambers of commerce … Read more
Calling all CARP Members… “Protect Your Vision!”
DEADLINE FOR INTERVENTIONS: FEB. 20, 2013 Help keep VisionTV in 10 million households on basic cable and satellite. For the past 25 years VisionTV has been Canada’s actually, the World’s only national multi-faith and multi-cultural television service currently available in 10 million households at 12 cents a month per subscriber, the lowest on basic cable and satellite. However, under new … Read more
