Les sites web et listes de diffusion

A twice-monthly e-newsletter of the Canadian Health Network delivers the latest information on healthy lifestyles and health promotion information to help you stay healthy and prevent disease and injury.  To view the newest edition online.

The Aboriginal Women's Health and Healing Research Group has now launched a new web page on Gender Based Analysis (GBA).  The resources on this page were created from the AWHHRG September 10-11, 2007 GBA-Phase 2 Workshop.  The summary report from this workshop will be available in December 2007.

This blog looks at breast implants in the context of everything — safety, feminism, parenting, media, and the surrounding culture that has enabled the rise of extreme beauty measures. Whenever implants are mentioned in the mainstream media, the stories start on the false premise that implants are safe. Their intention is to chip away at that premise and become the go-to place to get the other side of the story whenever there’s news about implants.

This website provides physicians and pharmacists with unbiased, evidence-based information about drug therapies.  Based at the University of British Columbia, this site provides current and useful information independent of government, the pharmaceutical industry, and other vested interests. The Therapeutics Initiative shares the information in the form of  letters.

Making Us Visible is a ground breaking initiative, funded by the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Ontario Chapter.  This project is a partnership between Sherbourne Health Centre and other community agencies eager to develop health promotion activities and support for lesbian and bisexual women in the area of breast health and breast cancer.

The Mental Health Commission of Canada launches its' website which will provide an initial point of contact with the Commission, and begin to inform Canadians about their mandate and activities.

The goal of this website is to provide housing workers and advocates across Canada with information and tools to enable them to overcome - using a human rights framework - the barriers that keep people from accessing and retaining adequate housing.

http://www.equalityrights.org/cher/ .

The Gender Based Analysis Blog on the Aboriginal Women's Health and Healing Research Group (AWHHRG) website is now active. Please login and share your thoughts on: http://awhhrg.ca/blog/ .

All Blog submissions will be utilized by AWHHRG to develop an Aboriginal framework for GBA.

RH Reality Check is an online community and publication serving individuals and organizations committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights.

RH Reality Check is guided by the issues and recommendations identified in the Program of Action agreed on at the International Conference on Population and Development at Cairo in 1994. Protection is our watchword-we are contributing to the global effort to empower people with the information, services and leadership they need to safeguard their sexual and reproductive health and rights and to guard against false attacks and misinformation. RH Reality Check exists as a resource for evidence-based information, provocative commentary, and interactive dialogue.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/about-us .

MommyBlogsToronto (http://mommyblogstoronto.com ), the better than a playdate destination for Canadian parents, has joined forces with BlogHer (http://blogher.org ), the Webs number one guide to women bloggers, to promote blogger action on political and social issues.

BlogHer recently announced a new global activism initiative called BlogHers Act ( http://blogher.org/node/20421 ). This initiative will harness the energies, ingenuity and influence of women who blog to execute on a 12-month plan of action focused on a single global issue.

MommyBlogsToronto is proud to announce plans to work in parallel with this initiative, leading a uniquely local charge to encourage Canadian bloggers and blog readers to take action on an issue of concern to Canadian women. They are currently seeking input from readers to identify this issue and will announce the chosen direction at BlogHer Conference 07, taking place in Chicago on July 27-29.

To learn more and join in the inspiring discussion visit MommyBlogsToronto at http://mommyblogstoronto.typepad.com/mommy_blogs_toronto/2007/07/we-talk-a-lot-a.html and BlogHer at http://blogher.org/node/21784 .