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Feb 26, 2025 |
globalnews.ca | Amanda Jelowicki
A Montreal woman with autism is fighting to be reunited with her dog, after being forced to give her up due to complaints from her apartment building's management. Heather Yampolsky says her bond with her dog, Honey, played a crucial role in improving her mental and physical wellbeing. "I was emotionally frozen... I couldn't feel anything", Yampolsky said. However, after getting her dog, she says things turned around for the better. "I began to want to engage with the world again," she added.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
autism.einnews.com | Amanda Jelowicki |Prisha Dev
A Montreal woman with autism is fighting to be reunited with her dog, after being forced to give her up due to complaints from her apartment building’s management. Heather Yampolsky says her bond with her dog, Honey, played a crucial role in improving her mental and physical wellbeing. “I was emotionally frozen… I couldn’t feel anything”, Yampolsky said. However, after getting her dog, she says things turned around for the better. “I began to want to engage with the world again,” she added.
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Nov 25, 2024 |
globalnews.ca | Amanda Jelowicki
The West Island Regional Health Agency has launched a pilot project, opening an innovative Teleheath Station in a local community service centre (CLSC). The project was inspired by medical initiatives used by the Canadian Space Agency. "Patients on the waiting list can do a routine check up via a station that works for astronauts," said Dan Gabay, the CEO of the CIUSSS de L'Ouest-de-I'ile-de-Montreal. "Something that would be alarming would trigger the nurse to just see if everything is ok.
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Oct 7, 2024 |
globalnews.ca | Amanda Jelowicki
Montreal artist Casey Vormer proudly is showing off what could be his greatest work - a sprawling, 10-foot-long multicoloured drawing of the Old Montreal skyline, a piece that took him 900 hours to complete. The stunning drawing is an intricately-detailed piece that almost passes as a photograph. For Vormer, who lives with autism, it's a remarkable achievement.
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Jun 17, 2024 |
globalnews.ca | Amanda Jelowicki
For the first time since COVID-19 restrictions were imposed in 2020, the subsequent shortage of lifeguards Quebec has experienced in recent years has slowed. Experts say a Quebec government initiative to cover the costs of lifeguarding training has been a game-changer. “I told the government, listen, in the next few years if we don’t do something special, we will close swimming facilities because we will be short lifeguards and instructors,” said Raynald Hawkins of the Quebec Lifesaving Society.
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