By Helen Harper Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. was born in Orillia, Ont. in 1938. This “Canadian National Treasure” is credited with helping define the folk-pop… Read More »Artist Spotlight for May: Gordon Lightfoot
My pre-retirement life involved working in health care as a nurse manager in Burns, Plastics, and Head and Neck Oncology, and lastly, as a Director… Read More »CJNU Personality of the month : Susan Earl shares her background
In 1960, Pollyanna, the movie, came out. It was about a 12-year-old orphan daughter of missionaries who arrives in a small town to live with… Read More »Pollyanna’s “Glad Game”
Senaka Samarasinghe The committee members of Sri Lankan seniors called a number of committee meetings via Zoom. We finalized weekly yoga sessions conducted in collaboration… Read More »Sri Lankan Seniors kept busy with yoga and monthly get together by using Zoom technology
Peggy Prendergast There is an old saying “There is nothing new under the sun.” The Spanish flu pandemic that ravaged the world a century ago… Read More »We are in this together
Brenda Tonn ‘The Let No One Be Alone’ grass roots initiative started in 2012 as a result of a sleepless night. In my role as… Read More »Let No One Be Alone needed now more than ever before
By Fred Morris After World War 1 and the Spanish Flu pandemic, the population of Canada’s urban centres surpassed the rural population. This led to… Read More »Why should government be taking EI funds into general revenues?
“If you do not read the newspaper, you are not informed; if you read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” Mark Twain Does mainstream news publish… Read More »Let’s call a john a john and stop using “news” to cover up
Most Italian dishes include olive oil, not that that is a bad thing. I am a big proponent of it but this dish has none.… Read More »Stuffed Peppers, just what the doctor ordered
As we age, our immune system gets weaker. This natural, gradual deterioration is called “immunosenescence” and starts to affect most people’s health at about 60.… Read More »Lowering your immune age
