Today is American Thanksgiving and the Official Start to the Holiday Season. Happy Thanksgiving to All!!

HR during the Holiday Season

• Welcome to the Pitfalls of a Holiday Season Job Search
• Job Hunters Advised to Continue Search Throughout Holidays
• Holiday Bonuses Are on the Upswing This YearHR Must Manage Merriment at Holiday Parties
• 10 cringeworthy things managers have done at holiday parties
• Company holiday parties are getting festive again
• How to Successfully Manage a Contingent Workforce During the Holiday Season
• Planning the company holiday party: A checklist for employers
• Holiday Guide to Giving Gifts In The Office
• Why finding seasonal workers is getting harder for retailers
• More than half of workers uses time at work to shop online
• The holiday season is the most popular time for taking MC
• How to manage the holiday productivity lull
• Why staff hate the holiday season
• A quarter of us will kiss a colleague at the office Christmas party (with those in HR most likely to)

From the Longwoods Archives

In the News

• P.E.I.'s bioscience sector launches new HR strategy
• Ontario Health Minister Issues Final Order for Hospital Integrations
• We're No. 1! B.C. wait times continue to surge, especially for MRIs: Fraser Institute
• Ontario patients should have access to electronic medical records
• Health Canada guilty of 'malpractice' in treatment of Indigenous youth, Charlie Angus says
• P.E.I. health minister promises manor replacement by 2018
• Opioid overdoses killed dozens in Manitoba this year: Manitoba health minister
• Vaping, e-cigarettes to be regulated by Health Canada
• Alberta Health minister still mum on future improvements to Edmonton's Misericordia hospital
• Patients would rather sleep than have clean diapers: Quebec health minister
• How's the food? Quebec Health minister offers taste test at long-term care facilities
• RPNAO CEO Dianne Martin receives Premier's Award in Health Sciences
• Canada’s health-care wait times hit 20 weeks in 2016—longest ever recorded
• Pregnant women at risk of getting the flu are not getting vaccinated
• New Canadian investments in ALS research reflect growing knowledge about the disease and increasing likelihood of effective treatments being developed
• Medical Marijuana Association Applauds Access to Cannabis Oils for Veterans
• Historic Honourees Celebrated at 2016 Health Research Foundation Research Awards Gala
• Alternative Perspective on Canadian Health Care Wait Times
• Government of Canada Introduces New Tobacco and Vaping Products Legislation
• Invictus Games Toronto 2017 Organizing Committee Funds Independent Study on Impact of Adaptive Sport Competition on Military, Veterans and Their Families
• Members of Provincial Parliament Unite to Help Ontarians Breathe with Ease
• MedReleaf continues to lead on scientific research: Landmark, peer-reviewed study shows medical cannabis dramatically improves lives of veterans with PTSD
• Innovative Medicines Canada and Queen's University launch Medical Ethics Studentship
• Volunteers preventing overdose deaths in Vancouver demand government help
• Report recommends expanded service delivery role for eHealth Ontario
• Barrette's Quebec healthcare reforms seem to be backfiring
• Health minister says legislative changes coming to 'turn the tide' in opioid crisis
• Alberta Health minister downplays cool reception from rural leaders
• Health Minister urged to re-examine possible side effects of anti-malarial drug
• Health and Healthcare News
• World Health News

Breakfast with the Chiefs 

    
Wednesday, December 07, 2016 
G. Ross Baker, Patricia O'Connor and Petrina McGrath

Longwoods Videos

Doc Mike Evans: Concussion management and return to learn

Transitions

• Mark Taylor to Medical Executive Director, Central Zone, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, NS
• Dave Snadden to Chair in Rural Health, Rural Doctors' UBC, Prince George, BC
• Heather Lee to Acting Chief Executive Officer, Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre, Sioux Lookout, ON
• Michael Kidd to Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
• Jeannie Haggerty to Interim Scientific Director, St. Mary's Research Centre, Montreal, QC
• Karen McGrath to Chief Executive Officer, Horizon Health Network, Fredericton, NB
• Mary McAllister to Inaugural President of CNAOntario, Ottawa, ON
• Kaiyan Fu to Vice President, Practice and Quality, Saint Elizabeth Health Care, Toronto, ON
• Kevin McConomy to Sr. Program Consultant, EHR and Acute Care, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Toronto, ON
• Tazim Virani to Sr. Lead Strategic Initiatives, Saint Elizabeth Health Care, Toronto, ON
• Jeanette Despatie to acting Chief Executive Officer, Brockville General Hospital, Brockville, ON
• Catheryn Pedersen to Board Chair, Prairie Mountain Health, Souris, MB
• Edward Bergen to Board Chair, Interlake-Eastern Regional Health, Selkirk, MB
• Cal Huntley to Board Chair, Northern Regional Health, Flin Flon, MB
• Abram Bergen to Board Chair, Southern Health, Southport, MB
• Karen Dunlop to Board Chair, Winnipeg Regional Health, Winnipeg, MB
• Linda Rabeneck, VP, Prevention and Cancer Control, Cancer Care Ontario, awarded the American College of Gastroenterology’s 2016 Berk/Fise Clinical Achievement Award

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Featured Careers

• 2 New Members - Board of Directors 2017 - Ontario Shores, Whitby, ON
• Vice President of Seniors' Health - St. Joseph's Care Group, Thunder Bay, ON
• Director, Iqaluit Community Services - Government of Nunavut, Iqaluit, Nunavut
• Senior Consultant -  Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Toronto, ON
• Regional Supervising Coroner - Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Toronto, ON
• Director of Finance - Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, ON
• Director, Clinical Programs - Sault Area Hospital - Sault Ste. Marie, ON
• Director, Collaborative Practice - Sault Area Hospital - Sault Ste. Marie, ON
• Vice President, Medical Affairs - Eastern Health - St. John’s, NL
• Executive Director - Rocky Mountain House Primary Care Network, Rocky Mountain House, AB
• General Manager - Retirement Residence, Southern Saskatchewan
• Waterloo Wellington LHIN Clinical Quality Lead - Health Quality Ontario, Kitchener, ON
• Regional Supervising Coroner (Central East) - Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Toronto, ON