After news reports of teens suffering severe lung damage from vaping in recent weeks, there has been a focus in the media about the risks of this new way of ingesting nicotine. Vaping is “less dangerous” than smoking, but this is a bit like saying one alligator is less dangerous than 3 alligators – it’s …
It is magic that makes a tale a fairy tale, but it takes a writing magician to make a fairy tale that “grown-ups” can believe in. That is what Naomi Novik does in Spinning Silver. This is a story in which three extraordinary women emerge from the ordinary women everyone believes them to be using …
Originally posted on Dr. Gail Beck:
In the wake of the most recent celebrity suicides, I want to speak about two practices that we can learn that combat depression. I am convinced of the value of these practices not just from the fact that research (particularly Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Research) has confirmed their value, but…
The first week of school is now finished and teachers have begun to give homework and talk about the goals for the courses youth are taking. Everyone is likely still enthusiastic, and the workload seems manageable. There are a few things you can do right now to help the young people around you to study. …
Do you remember starting high school? Think Back on your youthful self, prepping for that first day – I can see myself in a navy tunic and white blouse, trying to decide if it would become cold enough for my new jacket. If it ended up being too warm for a jacket, I would look …
This is a picture of my favourite summer view, at home. This is my view when I am sitting on my back deck, looking up through the summer banners and through the tiny green leaves and tangled branches of the Sunburst Locust tree to the sky. When I am looking up like this, it reminds …
This summer I went to see the Bed – In for Peace 50th Anniversary Celebrations at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. This celebrates a period from May 26, 1969 until June 2, 1969 when John Lennon and Yoko Ono protested the Vietnam War and rose awareness for Peace by staying in bed at the …
There is nothing better than a holiday at the seaside. The Beachcomber’s Book, written by Bernice Kohn and illustrated by Arabelle Wheatley, is a book to take to the seaside – or to read if you are missing the seaside. Each Chapter of The Beachcomber’s Book provides some information about the seaside or about something …
I am writing this for all those parents wondering what to do in these final three weeks of summer with their kids. Research has shown that the best experiences to promote kids and teen’s mental health are outings in the natural world. Summer is one of the best times in the northern hemisphere for outdoor …
Health care providers who work with children and youth – and veterinary health care professionals – are beginning to be concerned about the cannabis industry’s approach to cannabis edibles. As I have written previously, I had hoped that the approach to the legalization of marijuana would be mindful of public health and both provincial and …
