For the 3rd year in a row, Atlantic artists have come out in support of the Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes wilderness area. Some parts of this beautiful region are now protected, and the goal is to have this urban wilderness designated as parkland and preserved for future generations. This group of intrepid artists journeyed …
See interview on Global TV NB here: https://globalnews.ca/video/rd/a014a4b0-00dc-11ea-b60d-0242ac110004/?jwsource=cl A Canadian seniors group is calling for better access to high dose flu vaccines in New Brunswick. “New Brunswick has one of the highest percentages of older people in the country and if you don’t make such an important medication like high dose flu vaccine available to …
Across the country, advocates are wary of how effective the system might be 2019-11-02 11:27am. By Victoria Walton A program called Silver Alert Canada, similar to AMBER Alert for missing children, has been suggested as a tool for locating missing elderly people. But across the country, some advocates are wary of how effective the system …
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This should not have occurred! CARP NS contacted the Provincial Government in July expressing our concern about the expected “worse than usual” flu expected this year. We were assured that officials had the situation in hand and appropriate vaccine would be available go everyone who needs it. So what happened? CARP is looking for answers…and …
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