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Ontario Gradually Resuming Surgeries and Procedures

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Ontario Gradually Resuming Surgeries and Procedures

Students Can Once Again Benefit from Extra-curricular Activities in Province’s Schools

TORONTO — With the steady decline in COVID-19 related hospitalizations and ICU admissions in addition to stabilizing health human resources, the Ontario government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health and Ontario Health, is lifting Directive 2 to begin a gradual and cautious resumption of non-urgent and non-emergent surgeries...

Planet Youth Lanark County Press Release - February 9, 2022

Lanark County is the first community in Canada to adopt the data-driven, community-based, problematic substance use prevention model called Planet Youth. When this model was pioneered more than 20 years ago, Iceland’s youth substance use rates were the worst in Europe. Today Iceland’s rates are the best in Europe.

In the Lanark County plan, data is gathered using surveys of Grade 10 students attending schools in Perth, Smiths Falls, Almonte and Carleton Place. Plans for March 2020 surveys were delayed...

10 Steps to a Low Carbon Workplace Workshop

10 Steps to a Low Carbon Workplace

A FREE interactive workshop will provide you with practical tips on reducing your environmental impact in the workplace.

Thursday, February 17, 2022 12:00 -1:30 PM

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/10-steps-to-a-low-carbon-workplace-tickets- 222156334577

Practical Caregiver Training Course

Do you know an unpaid caregiver looking after a loved one with a life limiting illness in and around Lanark, Leeds and Grenville?

The Practical Caregiver Training for those looking after a loved one with a life limiting illness is back. It's free and it's virtual. Join us for 5 weeks of training on various topics from Advance Care Planning, Providing Personal Care, Medication Management, Self Care, What to Expect at the End of Life, Navigating the system and more. This is a peer facilitated...