Backgrounder: New measures to protect foreign workers and prevent the spread of COVID-19 for the 2021 season From: Employment and Social Development Canada Backgrounder The Government of Canada recognizes the vital role temporary foreign workers (TFWs) play in key sectors such as agriculture, agri-food, and fish and seafood processing that are critical to Canada’s food supply, foodContinue reading “COVID-19 Rules for Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada”
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John Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Acceptance
“In the meditation practice we cultivate acceptance by taking each moment as it comes and being fully, as it is. We try not to impose our ideas about what we “should be feeling of thinking or seeing in our experience. Instead we remind ourselves to be receptive and open to whatever we are feeling, thinking,Continue reading “John Kabat-Zinn’s “Full Catastrophe Living”: Acceptance”
10 Steps We Can Take to Never Have a Year Like 2020: # 2 Better Protect health workers on the front line
Again the Quebec magazine L’actualitê has an interesting feature article in its April edition dealing with COVID-19 and translated it means what are the steps we can take to ensure we don’t have a year like 2020? The second step is to better protect health care workers on the front line. In Quebec in theContinue reading “10 Steps We Can Take to Never Have a Year Like 2020: # 2 Better Protect health workers on the front line”
Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Introverts and Extroverts
“Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration. They’re relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame. Extroverts are the people that will add life to your dinner party and laugh generously at your jokes. They tend toContinue reading “Susan Cain’s “Quiet”: Introverts and Extroverts”
10 Steps We Can Take to Never Have a Year Like 2020: # 1 Reinforce Public Health
Again the Quebec magazine L’actualitê has an interesting feature article in its April edition dealing with COVID-19 and translated it means what are the steps we can take to ensure we don’t have a year like 2020? The first step is to reinforce public health. In 2015 Quebec cut the health budget by 30%. AndContinue reading “10 Steps We Can Take to Never Have a Year Like 2020: # 1 Reinforce Public Health”
Ontario opens on-line system and service desk for COVID vaccinations
NEWS RELEASE Ontario Launching Provincial Booking System for COVID-19 Vaccines Individuals 80 Years of Age and Older Will Be Able to Schedule Appointments Online or By Phone March 14, 2021 Health Table of Contents Content Quick Facts Additional Resources Related Topics TORONTO — The Ontario government is launching a provincial booking system and customer serviceContinue reading “Ontario opens on-line system and service desk for COVID vaccinations”
Jon Kabat-Zinn “Full Catastrophe Living”: the present moment
“….because the present moment whenever it is recognized and honoured reveals a very special, indeed magical power: it is the only time that any of us ever has. The present is the only time that we have to know anything. It is the only time we have to perceive, to learn, to act, to change,Continue reading “Jon Kabat-Zinn “Full Catastrophe Living”: the present moment”
Poetry Corner: “The Vaccine Lottery”
The Vaccine Lottery Country by country different rulespray for quickness in the church pewsbut in so many cases it is a question of who you know in the medical systemto perhaps pull a few favours and get the jabno need to moralize about a moralistic scabyou have it ahead of everyone aren’t you devious andContinue reading “Poetry Corner: “The Vaccine Lottery””
CDC Guidelines For the Fully Vaccinated
What You Need to Know About the CDC’s COVID-19 Guidance for Fully Vaccinated Individuals Vaccinated people are well protected, but they need to be respectful of others still at risk BY RACHEL WEST | MARCH 9, 2021 Facebook Twitter Linked In Email Pinterest The CDC recently released guidance for individuals who have been fully vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine available underContinue reading “CDC Guidelines For the Fully Vaccinated”
Tara Brach’s : Radical Acceptance: Living your Life With The Heart of a Buddha”: Unreal People
“Once someone is an unreal other, we lose sight of how they hurt. Because we don’t experience them as feeling beings, we can inflict pain on them without compunction. Not seeing that others are real leads to a father disowning his son for being gay, divorced parents using their children as weapons. All the enormousContinue reading “Tara Brach’s : Radical Acceptance: Living your Life With The Heart of a Buddha”: Unreal People”
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