by Shirley Hickman | May 5, 2022 | Health and Safety
[Following is the text of Shirley’s speech given at the launch for Safety and Health Week 2022] Here we are once more marking Safety and Health Week. Companies and organizations across Canada, the United States and Mexico come together to create awareness of workplace...
by Susan Haldane | Mar 17, 2022 | Health and Safety
I was helping my husband hook the square baler up to the tractor. I needed to get around on the other side to remove a block from the jack stand. We were in a hurry – you’re often in a hurry on a farm – the forecast was calling for rain later in the day and we had hay...
by Susan Haldane | Dec 16, 2021 | Health and Safety, How We Help, Partner Praise, Steps for Life, Volunteers
Well, it’s been a year, hasn’t it? Another trying, tiring year. It can be hard to see the light during these short days and long nights of winter, but often the glimmers are there if we look for them. We combed back through the months of 2021 to find you some good...
by Shirley Hickman | Oct 14, 2021 | Health and Safety, Volunteers
Life is a series of steps: first the baby steps, and then each phase of our lives grows from those first steps, those foundational steps. In the early stages of Maureen Shaw’s life, she would hear the screeching sirens from the local forestry mill. Everyone would wait...
by adminThreadsofLife | Sep 9, 2021 | Health and Safety, How We Help
Kristopher Tuff died working as a welder in 2013. His brother, Alex, has never been the same. Alex and Kristopher were tied at the hip as brothers. They had great birthday parties, attended fun wedding dances; they roughhoused and goofed around as brothers do when...
by Lorna Catrambone | May 27, 2021 | Health and Safety, Volunteers
It’s been 6 years since the United Nations General Assembly established the Sustainable Development Goals that were adopted by all 193 United Nations Member States, including Canada. The goals set a timeline to end poverty, improve health and education, reduce...
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