September 11, 2025

September 11, 2025

Visiting Meno Ya Win in Sioux Lookout today for a sharing circle with leadership at their Long-Term Care Home. Meno Ya Win is a provincial leader in providing traditional foods to their Indigenous hospital patients and LTC residents through their Miichim program....
September 10, 2025

September 10, 2025

On a flight to Sioux Lookout for the first ever site visit in CCAER history. Fog delays caused the other passengers to be moved to other flights, so I am alone on the plane with the two pilots. My own private jet – what a way to start the data collection portion...
August 20, 2025

August 20, 2025

Feeling privileged to co-lead the ACB Foods in LTC Homes project with University of Ottawa’s Dr. Mwali Muray. These past few days with this inspiring research team have been both motiviating and humbling. The work of our community partners and academic...
August 18, 2025

August 18, 2025

The whole research team for our CIHR-funded African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) Foods in Long-Term Care Homes project is coming together for our kick-off meeting in Ottawa. So excited to spend time with everyone in...
August 13, 2025

August 13, 2025

Check out our newest publication in Palliative Care and Social Medicine sharing findings from our ethnographic study of the role of food as part of person-centred palliative...