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ONTARIO ABORIGINAL HEALTH ADVOCACY INITIATIVE The Ontario Aboriginal Health Advocacy Initiative (O.A.H.A.I.) is a project of the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy (A.H.W.S.). O.A.H.A.I. was implemented as a complement to the A.H.W.S. projects. ...... Read more here.... WOODSWORTH AWARD 2009. John Argue This award was established by the Board of CPC Ontario Division in 2000 to honour the memory of Jean Woodsworth....... Read more here.... That generic drugs are dispensed to fill half of all prescriptions in Canada yet account for only 22 percent of the $20 billion Canadians spent last year on prescription medicines? A NEW VENTURE In the February 2009 issue of Viewpoint, the lead article was Depression is NOT a Normal Part of Aging, written by Ms. Randi Fine, a consultant-trainer-advocate specializing in older adults' mental health and addictions. Ms. Fine is the former Executive Director for the Older Persons Mental Health and Addictions Network (OPMHAN)........ Read more here.... FOCUS ON MENTAL HEALTH FOR CANADA The following is CPC Ontario Division's response to Toward Recovery and Well-Being: A Framework for a Mental Health Strategy for Canada by the Mental Health Commission of Canada....... Read more here.... A PUBLIC DRUG PLAN Life Before Pharmacare: Report on the Canadian Health Coalition's Hearing into a Universal Public Drug Plan features the stories told by people who appeared at the hearing. .......... Read more here.... YOUTH FORUM The article is excerpted from an e-mail the author sent to friends and supporters when she returned from volunteering in Tanzania with Youth Challenge International*. She was assigned to Morogoro, approximately 350 kilometers west of Dar es Salaam, with two other young women and two young men....... Read more here.... TELEMARKETING FRAUD. It Isn't Who You Think It Is You may think it could never happen to you - you'd never fall for a pitch from a telemarketing scam. But according to research, fraud victims are likely to be educated, informed, relatively affluent and involved in their communities........ Read more here.... JUNE IS SENIORS' MONTH - KICK UP YOUR HEELS! BOARD HIGHLIGHTS Meeting April 20, 2009. Letters of greetings and congratulations for CPC's 40th anniversary were received from Governor General Michaëlle Jean, Prime Minster Stephen Harper, Lieutenant Governor David Onley, Premier Dalton McGuinty, the Honourable Aileen Carroll, Minister Responsible for Seniors, and David Miller, Mayor of Toronto ........ Read more here.... ANNUAL REPORTS. CANADIAN PENSIONERS CONCERNED The President, Ontario Division. The Treasurer. Housing Committee. Health and Environment. Economic Concerns. Membership. Reasearch. ViewPoint Editor. Metro Chapter. ........ Read more here....
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