Health & Wellness

Confession: before writing this article I had no idea which one checked your vision and fit you for glasses and which one dealt with ocular diseases. After doing a short, unofficial survey around the poss.ca office, it turned out I was not the only one.

In conversation with ... Ian Kellogg, a United Church minister in southern Saskatchewan.

When we think of jobs, we often thing of rather conventional ways of getting a paycheque — tasks performed for a specific effect, often to improve something or someone in ways that can be measured and observed.

Make no mistake about it — Canada is going grey and that means jobs that involve working with an aging population are hot and about to get hotter.

In a time of crisis there’s nothing that you need more than a person capable of not only attending to whatever is wrong with you but also someone who is calm and collected.

It takes a lot of smarts and commitment to make it as a doctor, a profession that is in-demand in many parts of this country. But to immigrate to Canada, already trained in this field, is to know the deep meaning of the word frustration.

The news is good — nurses are in demand across Canada, so much so that the Ontario government is guaranteeing graduates full-time jobs.

What a strange time to write about fitness, right? After all, it’s not January, you’re not full of new resolutions and your day is already filled to the brim (perhaps even with looking for a new job).

If your body has ever been bruised, banged up or even bashed in a car accident you may have met the skillful hands of a physio, chiro or osteo. Perhaps you too want to work with bones, joints, or muscles and have a desire to help clients in an up close and personal way.

According to Midwifery in Ontario “[m]idwife means ‘with woman’. To midwives and their clients, pregnancy and birth are normal, healthy life events.