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October 16, 2025

October 16, 2025

It is the best day to be a researcher when field work takes you into an actual field! Havesting kale, callalou, tomatoes, and swiss chard brings smiles to all of our faces.

October 15, 2025

October 15, 2025

So pleased to be in Toronto visiting the team at the Afri-Can FoodBasket. This is our second site visit for the ACB Foods in LTC Homes project and we cannot wait to learn about all the work you do with your amazing partners.

October 10, 2025

October 10, 2025

Happy to share our scoping review has been accepted for publication in CJC Open.

October 9, 2025

October 9, 2025

Thank you to the management and staff at Kiknu (which means “our home” in Mi’kmaq), Nova Scotia’s first long term care home in a First Nation community, for the warm welcome. We had a wonderful time visiting your home and hope that there...

October 7, 2025

October 7, 2025

We are grateful for the guidance from Advisor Catherine Martin as we navigate sharing circles in Millbrook First Nation as part of our CIHR-funded project studying Food as Medicine for Indigenous residents in long-term care homes across...

October 6, 2025

October 6, 2025

We are excited to be in Halifax, Nova Scotia with our Food as Medicine research team colleagues to engage in a series of sharing circles with Elders, Chief and Council, and community members at Millbrook First Nation.

October 4, 2025

October 4, 2025

Pleased to share that our protocol paper for our Brain-Heart Interconnectome-funded participatory action research project undertaken in partnership with the Archipel and Great River Ontario Health Teams has been published in BMJ Open.

October 3, 2025

October 3, 2025

We are pleased to support medical student Perla Nabhan as she presents the findings from her project with CCAER as part of the University of Ottawa's Medical Summer Student Research Program (MSSRP). Thank you to MSSRP organizers for...

October 3, 2025

October 3, 2025

I am delighted to contribute to the leadership of Theme 4: Innovative Health Systems and Tailored Models of Care of the Brain-Heart Interconnectome in collaboration with co-leads Dr. Sharon Johnston and Dr. Malcolm King.