No One is Illegal-Vancouver is a grassroots anti-colonial immigrant and refugee rights collective with leadership from members of migrant and/or racialized backgrounds. Our collective is predominantly people of colour and women. We are an all-volunteer group; none of our organizers are paid.

The No One is Illegal campaign has two goals: to attain concrete victories for immigrants and refugees and to develop the communities’ own capacity to attain justice and dignity for themselves and their families.

The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Canada is proud to announce our brand new Canadian website.  Their mission is to support the health of women and newborns. Their members practice in virtually every setting including hospitals, physicians’ offices, universities, educational and research institutions and public health agencies. Their members provide direct clinical care to women and newborns, deliver educational programs to nurses and advocate for the health of women and babies. 

The Midwifery Bridging Project (MMBP) is a bridging program for qualified midwives educated outside of Canada. It’s designed to help you learn how to use your skills in a Canadian context.  The MMBP will assist you to prepare to meet the requirements for registering and practising as a midwife in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba or the Northwest Territories. 

The primary goals of the Canadian Best Practices Portal are to: develop and disseminate best practices information for chronic disease prevention and control interventions; provide decision makers with a comprehensive and standardized resource about best practices for chronic disease prevention and control; create awareness of the overall Canadian Best Practices System through communication and marketing activities targeted to decision makers in health promotion, public health and chronic disease prevention range from frontline public health workers to non-government and voluntary organization program administrators to provincial ministers of health. 

The Canadian Network for Human Health and the Environment covers broad human health-related environmental issues relating to air, water, soil, food, climate change and consumer products.  

This network is funded by the Safe Environments Programme of Health Canada (SEP).  While its principal target membership is health-based non-governmental organizations which have an active interest in environmental impacts on human health, membership is also open to government policy-makers, researchers and healthcare professionals.

Current Oncology has added a new page to their website featuring patient support groups from across the country. Established in 1994, Current Oncology is a Canadian based and internationally distributed journal which is published bi-monthly plus special supplemental issues. The information is written with easy to understand facts and information that lend themselves well to giving patients a better understanding of their disease while helping both themselves and loved ones in dealing with cancer.  View the current support page.

The June newsletter (Volume 2, Issue 2) from the Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN) is now available online at WHEN's website.

11/07/2008

The Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE), " Canada 's gateway to HIV information" announces online access to all of its publications at its new Online Ordering Centre. The catalogue of over 550 English and French documents is available free of charge on the CATIE website.

Skin Deep is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products brought to you by researchers at the Environmental Working Group.  Skin Deep pairs ingredients in more than 25,000 products against 50 definitive toxicity and regulatory databases, making it the largest integrated data resource of its kind.

Dr. Bonkers presents The Nearly Genuine and Truly Marvelous Psychoneuropharmacological Mental Medicine Show an online gallery of modern and vintage psychiatric drug advertising.

Contact, Help, Advice and Information Networks (CHAIN) is a network designed to facilitate links between health care professionals, specialists, researchers, educators, managers, librarians and other professionals.

You can request to become a member of this network today, in just 10 minutes, using the internet and within two working days you will be able to use a simple on-line search to make contact with other members anywhere who have common interests and aspirations to your own.  As well as this you can ask to have messages broadcast to targeted groups.  Membership is entirely free. 

To get more information contact enquiries@chain-network.org.uk

Policies of Exclusion, Poverty & Health: Stories from the front, which is the outcome of an intense study of 21 women living in poverty in one Canadian community.

The series includes the 21 stories, written in the women’s own words, plus two reports – also written in the first-person and so from the storytellers’ perspective. The first report draws out the dominant themes found in the stories. The second details the storytellers’ recommendations for positive change and offers encouragement and advice to other women in poverty to “mobilize, galvanize, and politicize.” Together, the stories and reports contain surprises that challenge long-held assumptions about Canada’s poor.

The Honouring Life Network is a project of the National Aboriginal Health Organization. The Web site offers culturally relevant information and resources on suicide prevention to help Aboriginal people deal with a problem that has reached crisis proportions in some First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities in Canada.

In addition to providing a place for Aboriginal youth to go and read about others dealing with similar issues, the site allows those working with Aboriginal youth to connect, discuss and share suicide prevention resources and strategies.  Funded by Health Canada.

Take back Mother's Day from the throes of commercialism, and celebrate its founding spirit by supporting women today who are working for peace and justice. Learn more.

The Independent Living Institute launches new version of its Accessible Vacation Home Exchange service. 

The Pop Reporter is a weekly e-zine that links to the latest research and news reports on reproductive health and other related issues.

For over 20 years Health Nexus (formerly the Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse) has been enabling communities to promote health-in Ontario and beyond. At little or no cost, we help organizations and individuals develop and implement prevention and health promotion strategies, which aim to enhance well-being and reduce demand on the health care and social service systems. Our three strategic areas of focus are: early child development, chronic disease prevention and health equity (inclusion). 

www.health-evidence.ca is designed to provide quality research evidence to public health decision makers, saving you time by searching, screening, and rating the systematic review evidence to compile it in a free, searchable online registry.

Since its inception in 1994, Women's Healthy Environments Network has been educating the general public, media and policy makers to the fact that environmental health is a key determinant of public health.

Wikigender is your online platform to find and exchange information related to gender equality. The website is work in progress and benefits from your active participation. Users are invited to comment on or improve existing articles, and to create or upload new documents. By providing a platform to share experiences and to learn from each other’s knowledge, Wikigender will contribute to a better understanding on the situation of men and women around the world.

HEALTH INNOVATION FORUM is a multi-year program that aims to promote health care innovations within and beyond the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). The MUHC's Institute for Strategic Analysis and Innovation has partnered with Parkhurst Publishing, a leading Canadian medical publishing company, to explore ideas, technologies and practices that can raise the bar on health system performance. 

A new blog -Health Innovation in Context- is now online. The goal is to develop a knowledge-transfer platform and foster dialogue between journalists, patient associations, decision-makers and researchers. Each month, a new topic will be featured and various issues raised by emerging and existing innovations (prenatal screening tests, pharmacogenomics, predictive medicine) will be explored. Interviews with scientists will be available online while comments from readers will be posted.

Anywhere in Canada, medically necessary services are 100 per cent paid for by government. This right is protected under the Canada Health Act and provincial legislation.

Yet sometimes patients get charged for medically necessary care. This website lists the sorts of illegal fees Canadians encounter and tells you how to fight them.

January 28th, 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the Morgentaler decision, which decriminalized abortion in Canada. Throughout the year, activists and community groups will hold events to celebrate the importance of this decision. The Proudly Pro-Choice website offers a schedule of events organized to celebration freedom of choice.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) would like to invite you to subscribe and participate in our new listserv focused on the topic of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) & Research Ethics.