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20+ Foods That Can Help Lower Blood Pressure

If you're concerned about blood pressure, slashing your sodium intake is only the beginning. Here are more healthy foods worth adding to your daily diet.

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How to Be More Thankful Every Day

Want to make gratitude an everyday habit? Experts suggest that by following these simple steps, you can cultivate gratitude and...


If You’re Not Eating a Banana Every Day, This Might Convince You to Start

An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Not so much. Try this fruit instead.


10 Risk Factors for Heart Disease (and How to Control Them)

When it comes to preventing heart disease, knowledge is power. Here are 10 factors that contribute to your risk for...


Coming to Canada: Life Has Come Full Circle

Many people decide to come to Canada. But how many make that big move twice?

How to Do CPR: 7 Essential Steps of CPR Everyone Should Know

Doing CPR right away can double or even triple a person’s chance of surviving cardiac arrest.


How a Chicago Hospital Pulled Off Back-to-Back Triple Organ Transplants

Before 2018, only 15 triple organ transplants—heart, liver and kidney—had ever been performed in the United States. Then, over the...

15 Benefits of Walking for Just 15 Minutes a Day

There's not much that a little stroll can't fix.


The Scientific Reason Winter Is Prime Heart Attack Season (And How You Can Stay Safe)

The cold really is harder on your heart. Before the temperatures drop, know how to keep your ticker healthy and...


This Canadian Is Helping Children Celebrate Their Limb Difference

With a fun attitude and a messy kitchen, Alexis Hillyard creates limb difference awareness—and cooks up delicious vegan meals in...


This Woman’s Beautiful Ode to Her Sister Will Change The Way You Think About People With Speci...

Lauren McKeon shares an unbreakable bond with her special needs sister that defies stereotypes.

7 Inspiring Fort McMurray Stories

As the flames were being quelled and the ash was settling, Canadians from coast to coast stepped up to help...


Coming to Canada: Reflections on the Great White North

Arriving with his family in 1989, an emigrant from India express his heartfelt love of Canada.


Great Canadians: Cpl. William Goodwin

Thanks to Vantage and the Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind's Assistance Dogs Division, life is better for this wounded...


Great Canadians: WaterStone Foundation

WaterStone founder Kim Duffy wants to give families affected by eating disorders the support they need.


School Spirit: The 2016 Canadian Innovators in Education Award Winners

Saluting the winners of our 2016 Canadian Innovators in Education Awards, which honours Canada's top teachers.