Lisa Machado began her journalism career as a financial reporter with Investor's Digest and then Rogers Media. After a few years editing and writing for a financial magazine, she tried her hand at custom publishing and then left to launch a Canadian women's magazine with a colleague. After being diagnosed with a rare blood cancer, Lisa founded the Canadian CML Network and shifted her focus to healthcare advocacy and education.
While the worst the pandemic has inflicted on many of us is not seeing friends and endless Zoom calls, for too many others, it has meant a much darker version of an already-difficult life.
Canada's provincial bereavement leave policies range from one to seven days away from work to manage the loss of a family member, some paid, but mostly unpaid. Is this the best we can do?
'We aren't sure what to expect' is never what you want to hear — not from the person flying your plane, or the contractor renovating your house, or the dude making your first latte of the morning, but especially not...
From discussing keeping private parts private, to sex, to drugs, parents are constantly trying to suss the appropriateness of passing on knowledge in ways that educate, not traumatize.
A new study has identified flaws in data used to develop breast screening criteria, a mistake that experts say may have caused the deaths of more than 400 Canadian women annually.
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SHIFT: 'Imagine women waiting for years while their cancer grows just because of some rule'