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Featured Image Description: A quinoa salad topped with feta in a metal bowl BY: JOSIE CALOMA Quinoa are seeds from a plant which are full of nutrients! Josie’s recipe makes a healthy and tasty quinoa salad! Ingredients: 2 cups […]

Featured Image description: A slice of spinach and cheese quiche with a side of vegetables drizzled with dressing on a plate BY: JOSIE CALOMA Quiches are French tarts filled with various, savoury fillings. Josie’s recipe is easy to follow […]

BY: FRANCE THERIAULT Image Description: A watercolour print of various pastel colours in circular patterns including pink, yellow, orange and blue May 25 2013, marked the end of the person I thought I was for 48 years. My new […]

Image Description: Mike McNally, a white man with a beard shows off his BIST Volunteer of the Year Award from 2020. He is smiling and wearing a blue shirt. Just in time to celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month, here is a […]

Featured Image Description: An open faced home made stir fried shrimp wrap with shrimp and vegetables on a plate BY: JOSIE CALOMA These delicious stir fry shrimp wraps are packed full of vegetables, and Josie even includes a simple […]

BY: FRANCE THERIAULT I am thrilled to write my first blog and I have been waiting for this moment for a while before finding the courage to do so. The idea of expressing myself publicly outside of my journal and the discussions I have with others […]

BY: STELLA SLOAN This day was unlike any other. It was New Years Day; January 1, 1982 and I was 18 years of age. I was lying in my double bed in my parent’s home. My bedroom was familiar […]

BY: KIM VO There are over half a million people living in Ontario who have a brain injury, and this number increases by 45,000 annually. Multiple studies have found that people living with brain injury are over-represented in the […]

BY: CHEF JANET CRAIG; ADDITIONAL PHOTOS & VIDEO: JOSIE CALOMA This fast salad combines delicious beet and apple flavours. It’s also a great side for grilled salmon or Swedish meatballs. Feeds four to six people. BONUS: Our volunteer Josie tested […]

BY: JOSIE CALOMA This is a favourite side dish in Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean. Here, our volunteer Josie Caloma shares her delicious version which can be a whole meal as well. Ingredients: ½ cup long grain […]