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Kindness Matters: Creating kindness, fostering connection and acting with compassion – Bullying facts and solutions
By What Matters to Hatters Coalition on January 14th, 2025
In partnership with the Medicine Hat Drug Coalition, What Matters to Hatters is aiming to reduce stigma related to substance use and mental illness in our community through our third annual kindness campaign. This month’s column encourages you to think about the impacts of bullying in our society, and how kindness, connection and compassion are ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By the Way: What are we missing?
By Nancy Cocks on January 11th, 2025
I joined a new network this year – as one more person who has had cataract surgery. The lens implant gives me clarity of vision I haven’t had for decades! Yet as I identify new wrinkles on my cheeks, I wonder what else I’ve been missing. Churches are marking the season of Epiphany right now. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Science Smarts: No-mess mini ‘snowballs’
By Patty Rooks on January 11th, 2025
What is more fun than throwing snowballs in the winter? I do not know, but one thing I do know is you cannot do it inside. So I came up with an activity that will be just as fun as throwing snowballs; we are going to launch mini “snowballs” without the mess! Let’s get started. ... Read More »
1 responseCommon Sense Health: Who can solve the chronic disease crisis?
By Dr. Gifford-Jones and Diana Gifford-Jones on January 10th, 2025
Elon Musk is the richest person in the world. He got the title thanks to innovative thinking and masterful moves in the business world. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Musk to lead the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk intends to apply economic efficiencies in fighting the crisis of an obese society by making weight ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Viva Vitality: Add ‘oral health’ to your New Year’s resolutions
By Jenna Lannan on January 10th, 2025
A new year is the perfect time for resolutions. Adding oral health care to that list could impact your life immensely. Tooth decay is still one of the most prevalent – and preventable – chronic diseases in both adults and children. Diet plays an instrumental role in tooth decay. The mouth contains hundreds of bacteria ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!By the Way: Our resolve must trace back to the beginning
By Oz Lorentzen on January 4th, 2025
Like many of you, I am thinking about New Year’s Resolutions. One difficulty with our New Year’s Resolutions is that we do not go back far enough. Any real analysis that would lead to important resolve and setting goals needs to account for more than the past 12 months. It is a new year, and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Science Smarts: Who needs summertime when we can make Snowman Slime?
By Patty Rooks on January 4th, 2025
I do not think there is anything more fun to play with than slime! Over the years, I have experimented with various materials in order to come up with some of my favourite “recipes.” Different recipes are needed for different kinds of slime. In keeping with our winter theme this month, I thought I would ... Read More »
1 responseAll Psyched Up: Beliefs
By Linda Hancock on January 4th, 2025
There is an interesting story about a woman who went to the butcher and asked for a ten-pound roast with two inches cut off the end of it. The butcher asked her why she wanted this and was surprised when she said, “That’s what my mother asks for when she wants beef.” The woman became ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Common Sense Health: Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Attacks Mean Misery and Economic Disaster
By Dr. Gifford-Jones and Diana Gifford-Jones on January 3rd, 2025
Why do people inflict misery upon themselves? By gaining too much weight, people are decreasing their quality of life and dying prematurely. You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to find the clues leading to tragic or mysterious deaths. The evidence is in plain sight. We are a society in which obese people are becoming ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Collector’s Corner: Holiday traditions from Canada Post
By Dennis Vickery on December 28th, 2024
Canada Post has released Christmas designs every year since 1964, and for nearly 20 years has offered stamps featuring secular Holiday imagery. The latest Christmas stamp depicts a vibrant-coloured illustration of the Holy Family. It shows Mary and Joseph looking lovingly at the infant Jesus. A star is visible overhead, which was said to announce ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!All Psyched Up: A time for pause
By Linda Hancock on December 28th, 2024
For over two decades I have been writing this newspaper column. Some might think that there is only so much one can say about the special holidays and important dates throughout the year but there is always a new perspective to consider. Today I write about the significance of new year that has some very ... Read More »
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