by Wynny Sillito | Nov 7, 2019 | Health and Safety, How We Help
Early in my career I had to make the phone call to a woman to tell her that her daughter’s father, the man she loved, had suffered a serious head injury on the job. I can still hear the silence in her voice; she was saying words to communicate with me, but I...
by Shirley Hickman | Oct 10, 2019 | Health and Safety
When I started Threads of Life, it was to provide support programs for family members living with the outcome of workplace life-altering injury, occupational diseases or outcomes of fatal injuries, such as the tragedy that our family is living with. I was very...
by Kimberly Bondame | Aug 21, 2019 | Health and Safety, How We Help, Volunteers
Social media can definitely have pros and cons, like many things, but a feature that Facebook has added over the last year is all pro in my books! Facebook Fundraisers were added late in 2018 for Canada and have taken over the social world since. Although we had heard...
by Marino Toppan and Paola Breda | Jun 20, 2019 | Day of Mourning, Health and Safety, How We Help
Marino Toppan and Paola Breda are volunteers with the Italian Fall Workers Memorial and authors of the new book Land of Triumph and Tragedy: Voices of the Italian Fallen Workers. The Italian Fallen Workers’ Memorial Wall Project started with one man’s dream; a...
by adminThreadsofLife | Apr 25, 2019 | Day of Mourning, Health and Safety
Every April 28, Canadians mark the National Day of Mourning. Ceremonies will take place coast to coast, remembering lives needlessly lost or changed irrevocably. Each of our family members experiences Day of Mourning differently. Some may not be able to attend a...
by Shirley Hickman | Apr 18, 2019 | Day of Mourning, Health and Safety
It is time for a vacation. For several years we have discussed going on a cruise with our close friends. We finally made that happen. The decision to take a Panama Canal cruise seemed like a good idea and we investigated options and made our choices. There were...
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