Richmond Hill’s Mackenzie Health needs support. The community hospital is raising funds for its Picture This campaign, which will help purchase a much-needed new MRI machine. Look to Vaughan resident Dan Simone for inspiration. The Freedom 55 Financial/London Life employee has spent the last year rallying up his co-workers to raise a whopping $60,000 for …
Family, friends and sponsors of cancer survivor Claudia Bernardo gathered at Da Vinci Banquet Hall on April 19 to celebrate their loved one’s courageous defeat of breast cancer. Guests wore pink in honour of the cause while Claudia — who was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer last year — and her husband inspired over …
The Hospital for Sick Children recently launched Boomerang Health, marking a milestone in quality health-care accessibility in Vaughan. The autonomous and interdisciplinary centre provides a range of quality services that are often not readily available, explains general manager Timothy Jones. Occupational therapy, orthopedic and sports physiotherapy, and speech language pathology are but some of the …
All women, at least those in North America, are very familiar with the most common menopausal symptoms, which include hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, memory loss and mood swings. Although these are common symptoms, they are just those ... symptoms! Common doesn’t mean you have to accept them as normal. The great thing is that …
Forget the gym — this mental workout guide will get your brain buffed in no time. The brain is a beautiful and intricate organ: determining who we are and how we understand our world. The brain is the centre of our intellectual, emotional and physical capabilities. With over two hundred billion neurons and several hundred …
CL: Describe the feeling you get when the results of your work are reflected in your client. SL: It’s amazing. What an accomplishment. There are certain ways that you can negatively affect people nowadays, so when you can affect someone’s life in a positive way, it’s just an incredible reward. Just the emails I get …
I’m on the phone with entertainment legend Alan Thicke — and he’s in a bit of a bind. “I have a show on tonight that happens to be against my son’s appearance in The Voice,” he says with a laugh. “We’re both on radio all day, promoting things in competition with each other.” He’s referring, …
Held at the Paramount Event and Conference Centre in Vaughan, Hollywood fitness guru Richard Simmons, The Pointer Sisters and the Magan Boys entertained the young stars of tomorrow at the second annual Dance to Conquer Cancer — Disco Days and Boogie Nights. Held at the Paramount Event and Conference Centre in Vaughan, the event raised …
There are times when significant moments have the ability to transform the course and purpose of our lives. For Alfredo Aiello, that defining moment came on a crisp spring day in the 1970s after successfully selling a family’s house in Etobicoke and relocating them to a new home in Mississauga. The selling and buying process …
Q: What inspired you to be a photographer? A: I remember as a child seeing an enlargement of the very famous photograph by Robert Doisneau, “Le Baiser de L’hôtel de Ville”. Even then I was struck by the blend of reality and art that photography could produce. From that point on I was always searching …