What does an Accessible Canada mean to you?
Today, the Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities announced the launch of a national consultation process to inform the development of planned legislation that will transform how the Government of Canada addresses accessibility.
Courage to Come Back: Christy Campbell
Christy Campbell was in the prime of her life when a stroke took away most of her movement and her voice. Now, she is fighting back and helping others. Sonia Deol reports.
After a brain injury, crash survivor thrives by helping others through art
Coming back from a traumatic brain injury is not easy, but one Montreal woman not only healed, but is now helping others through art. Artist, teacher and mentor Sonja Boodajee [...]
Hitting concussion research, prevention and management in B.C. head on
Concussions are the big monster that hangs around any kind of contact sport, and as the number of sports-related head trauma cases ticks up across North America, so does concussion [...]
Vancouver scientist’s brain discovery named a top story of 2015
Dr. Robert Tarzwell, a North Vancouver scientist out of Lions Gate Hospital, is among a team of scholars who have made Discover Magazine‘s top 100 stories of 2015 list, coming in [...]
Toronto hospital becomes world’s first to treat brain tumour with non-invasive procedure
TORONTO – Scientists at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital have taken the next bold step in chemotherapy by developing a non-invasive procedure to treat brain tumours. The hospital said it made history [...]
Canadian Sport Concussion Project educates CFLers on brain traumas
HAMILTON—Chris Walby, a Canadian Football Hall of Fame offensive lineman for 16 years with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and former football broadcaster, recalls once finding himself in the wrong huddle [...]
How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain
A walk in the park may soothe the mind and, in the process, change the workings of our brains in ways that improve our mental health, according to an interesting [...]
How Your Brain Heals Itself
A South African man with Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative disorder that often leaves its sufferers immobile, walks his symptoms into submission. A Broadway singer, silenced for 30 years by multiple [...]