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BY: CHEF JANET CRAIG February 4 is Homemade Soup Day! And Janet Craig has a great, hearty homemade soup for you – enjoy! Ten whole cloves or two whole heads, cleaned Four cleaned, washed leeks, chopped Three yellow or white […]

BY: CHEF JANET CRAIG Just on time for Super Bowl Weekend – or if that isn’t your thing – a Valentine’s / Anti-Valentine’s feast – our favourite chef Janet Craig brings you Baked Cocoa Wings! This is a ‘rub’ […]

BY: MERI PERRA Tuesday, March 19, 2013, an adventurous ski getaway in Whistler, B.C. changed the course of Michael Levine’s life forever. A Class 2 avalanche struck while Levine, along with his brother and a friend, were hiking up […]

BY: JANET CRAIG Soup makes winter better, which is one reason why January is Soup Month. To help you partake, our favourite Chef Janet Craig has created this easy Pho Soup recipe. Give it a try, and cook up […]

BY: ALISON Without lights and sounds associating with gaming apps or consoles, board games are less stimulating than other activities and require very little physical exertion. They were among very few things that I was able to do during the acute […]

BY: MELINDA EVANS Ask any dietitian, and they’ll probably tell you that their clients are asking them about the ketogenic diet more than any other recent ‘fad’ diet. Popular headlines have proclaimed it the miracle diet to shed weight, boost energy, […]

BY: SAMIRA OMAR I remember the last thing we did as a family. A week before everything happened we celebrated Eid Al-Fitr. For those of you who are not aware, Eid is a Muslim festival that happens twice a […]

BY: MARK KONING I remember lying in my hospital bed and looking out of the window at the smokestack that illuminated a soft purple glow when it got dark. I was six-years-old and recovering from encephalitis which had landed […]

BY: THERESA McCOLL My husband, Norm, has lived in a long term care home since acquiring his brain injury six years ago. Each holiday, be it Easter, St. Patrick’s Day, Halloween or Christmas, the facility decorates the common areas, in […]

BY: A NURSE-CAREGIVER OF A YOUNG PERSON WITH A BRAIN INJURY   Filed under: Caregiving, Friendships Tagged: Friendships, Traumatic brain injury FEATURED IMAGE VIA PIXABAY.COM