The 4th annual weight stigma conference is happening! Despite the growth of weight stigma scholarship, weight-based oppression continues to be dominant within society, where thinness is privileged and fatness is oppressed. Given the harmful psychological and physiological consequences of weight stigma, exploring ways to change cultural attitudes and beliefs about body size is, therefore, evermore...

Looking for tools to support program evaluation? Is there a program or initiative in your health department, unit or regional health authority that you would like to evaluate? Establishing a plan for conducting the evaluation is a key step in gathering, analysing and reporting on data to assist in decision making. The Program evaluation toolkit can help!...

Save the Date! The Centre for Health Science and Law (CHSL) will host a one-day expert conference on public health nutrition law and science on the occasion of the annual standard-setting negotiations of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling, the joint commission of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organziation that sets...

Highlights include: THE FUNDAMENTALS of Disaster Preparedness for Healthcare Facilities Lessons Learned from BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING HURRICANE SANDY: Hospital Evacuations Emergency Planning and Preparedness at Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel SOCIAL MEDIA and Crisis Communications AND MUCH MORE Conference website: Emergency Planning and Preparedness for Health Care Facilities Early bird and group registration fees...

Our next session (May 13th) will focus on “Dating and Relationships with a Disability.” We are happy to announce our speaker for next Mimi Lauzon, who is a certified Life, Love & Style Coach & Matchmaker from “It’s Just Lunch Canada’ The age range is from 13-29 and is for physically disabled youth and young adults. The...

Upcoming free talks by Éric Pineault in Vancouver and Victoria. These are the first public events for the Corporate Mapping Project, which, over the next five years, will examine the power and influence wielded by the fossil fuel industry in Canada. EXTREME OIL: Corporate power, tar sands expansion, and the capitalist pressure to extract Éric Pineault is a...