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The Council has recently introduced its new听digital newsletter entitled听 PALLIATIVE CARE in Action听丑颈驳丑濒颈驳丑迟颈苍驳 articles of interest to the public听and听events put on by the Council or others in the field of palliative care.

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PALLIATIVE CARE in Action

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	High听Honours听for Dr. Bernard Lapointe Scholarships in Action New Video for Patients and Informal Caregivers:听Living With an Incurable Disease Flights of Compassion Pearls Make The Man: An Interview with Salah Bachir
	End-of-Life Doulas The Living Wish Foundation: Reframing Hope Making Life Better with Music Pallium Canada: Palliative Care Change Agent
	The听McGill International Palliative Care Congress: Inspiration and Healing Psychosocial Seminar: Individuals, Families and Society Connections Ed Burtynsky and Finiteness听Climate Change and Palliative Care What Art can offer End of Life Community is the Heart of Palliative Care 听(French)
	Equity in Psychedelic-assisted Therapy: An interview with Yvan Beaussant, MD A Penny for Her TikTok Thoughts On a mission to deliver meaningful pediatric palliative care Goal Concordant-Care: An interview with Dr. Mary Lynn McPherson Intersection of Ethics and Medicine -听
	for The McGill International Congress on Palliative Care: Oct 18-21, 2022 The听Lancet听Commission on the Value of Death United in Everything We Have Lost - Dr. Sunita Puri A Passion for Compassion Dragon Boat Race: Unstoppable! The Waiting Room Revolution Pallium Canada: New National Initiatives to Support Leaders, Carers, Communities Living in Colour 鈥� National Hospice Palliative Care Week 2022
	for听The McGill International Congress on Palliative Care: Oct 18-21, 2022 Healing is the new counterculture: Dr Justin Sanders takes us to Palliative Care 2.0 CHPCA Canadian Interdisciplinary PC Competency Framework Palliacco: Support, Accompaniment and Respite Care
	The Cosmic Procession of Farewell iRespite Services iR茅pit: Developing an app to optimize respite care coordination for palliative care families The Lighthouse: Shedding light on community services in pediatric palliative care Conversation with Ira Byock: Intentional Branding of Palliative Care Promoting A Cree Palliative Approach In Eeyou Istchee
	Caregivers鈥� Stories from Kahnawake Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: Photographs to Honour Babies Who Have Died Be part of a community of practice with the Palliative Care ECHO Project Grief in the Time of COVID: Healthy Grieving during the Pandemic (YouTube Webinar recording) Community programs bringing new experiences at听the Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence Calling all French-speaking palliative care clinicians - Pallium Canada LEAP project
	Communication About Death and Dying with Children in Primary Care Honoring Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ : Proud, Prepared, and Protected Home Care Services: Research to Increase Access Tending Sorrow鈥檚 Garden: Bereavement Program Channels Grief and Hope Through Gardening 10^th Anniversary of the Mourning Walk
	First Ever Mira Service dog in a Palliative Care Facility The Next Generation of Psychosocial Training for Palliative Medicine The Ties That Bind in the Magdalen Islands Maison du P猫re: Palliative Care so No One is Forgotten Canadian Compassionate Companies - CHPCA Support for Carer-Workers BJ Miller in Conversation
	Palliative Care and Dignity for the Homeless PPE Portraits Canada: Humanizing Care During COVID-19 PEACH 鈥� Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless Music and Massage in Harmony Elderly Lives Matter
	Resources for Family Caregivers Medical Directives. Council webinar presented by Dr. Eugene Bereza St. Raphael Celebrates One Year Anniversary A Caregiver's Story A message from the Co-Chairs 听

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听 Fall 2018 听	"Reflections on Palliative Care" by Andrea Courey. \|Compassionate Communities;听 McGill as a Compassionate Community, McGill Art Hive (May 10), Libraries (Schulich March 15), School of Social Work (March 14), McGill Community for Lifelong Learning, Reflections on the Art Pop-Ups at McGill, Our Takeaway and variety of workshops. 2018 David Bourke Memorial Workshop as part of听the International Congress October October 2. Fall 2017 Workshops:听听鈥淕etting what you need: communicating with the health care team鈥� and听鈥淐aring for ourselves while caring for others鈥�. Spring 2018 workshops: "Helping someone in their last chapter of life" and "Advanced Care planning". Palliative听Care Volunteer Training.
Spring 2017	The Compassionate City Charter (Allan Kellehear); 2016 Annual Sandra Goldberg Lecture "The Civics of Dying Well" with B.J. Miller; 2016 Spring Workshops: The film"Little Stars - Accomplishing the extraordinary in the face of seious illness" followed by a discussion with Dr. Stephan Liben; 听 "What Matters Most" 听and 听"Lessons of Loss" 听 with Christopher MacKinnon; 2016 Fall Workshops: 听"Navigating and Negotiating the Health and Social Services System"听听 part 1:听"Starting the Journey" 听with Joan Foster and Zelda Freitas and part 2:听"Empowering your Choices" Palliative Care Volunteer training at McGill affiliated centres; Globe and Mail article "Canada's health-care system favours the cradle and ignores the grave.
Spring 2016	Department of Justice (Canada) Consultations on Physician-Assisted Suicide, 2015 Workshops: "Bridging the Gap of End-of-Life Care"; "The Last Chapter in the Book of Life" and the film "Death Makes Life Possible", 2015 Sandra Goldberg Lecture: "Public Choices, Private Lives: An End-of-Life Conversation" with Dr Harvey Schipper Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto & V茅rinique Hivon, former Minister of Social Services who drafted Bill 52, 2016 Sandra Goldberg Lecture: "The Civics of Dying Well" with Dr. B J Miller, Supportive and Palliative Care Services at the 香蕉视频 Health Centre, Articles: "We need a Role Reversal in the Conversation on Dying", 听"We are comaflaging morbidity in clich茅s: It's time to talk about death", " Words to live by", Dealing with Grief.
Spring 2015	"The contribution of the Near Death Experience and the End-of-Life Experiences to Palliative Care; "Mandates: making the best of a sad situation'; "Wild Messages" Jennifer Holland's article in the New York Times.
Spring 2014	"Celebrating 40 years of Palliative Care in Montreal" - highlights of 香蕉视频's role in Palliative Care, "Pioneering in Palliative Care" - Sue Britton recounts her career as as nurse in Palliative Care from the early days to the present; "When the Doctor Disappears" - Judith Graham' article in the New York Times; What is Palliative Care?, when is the right time for Palliative Care and what t expect from Palliative Care.
Spring 2013	Report on the workshop 鈥淭urning Good Intentions into Good Work鈥� and of the staged reading 鈥淒ying at Home: A Choice鈥� - both presented at the 19^th. International Congress on Palliative Care;听 The Living Will;听 Gift Giving on the Palliative Care Unit;听 and a summary of the 19^th. International Congress on Palliative Care.
Spring 2012	What People Talk About Before They Die; Happenings: Sandra Goldberg Lecture, David Bourke Memorial Lecture, Workshops;听 Volunteering in Palliative Care;听 19^th International Congress on Palliative Care.
Spring 2011	With Poem, Broaching the topic of Death;听 Report on 2010 International Congress on Palliative Care; Volunteers Highlights at the Congress,听 Upcoming Events.
Spring 2010	Palliative Care at the Neuro;听 Seminar on Volunteer Training;听 Volunteer Training Teaching Package;听 Upcoming Events:听 Palliative Care - What is it?听 When is the Right Time?听 What can you expect?
Spring 2009	Highlights of the 17^th International Congress on Palliative Care;听 Seminar on Volunteer Training;听 Volunteer Training Teaching Package;听 Upcoming Events::听 Palliative Care - What is it?听 When is the Right Time?听 What can you expect?
Spring 2008	Helping Children Deal With Death;听 Palliative Care in Quebec: A discipline that is coming of age;听 Palliative Care - What is it?听 When is the Right Time?听 What can you expect?;听 West Island Palliative Residence.
Spring 2007	10^th Annual Sandra Goldberg Memorial Lecture;听 David Bourke Memorial Lecture - Life in the Balance with Dr. Marla Shapiro;听 Living Wills / Advanced Directives.
Spring 2006	Palliative Care for Children;听 McGill Programs in Whole Person Care;听 David Bourke Memorial Concert - The Healing Power of Music;听 Dame Cicely Saunders (June 22, 1918 - July 14, 2005);听 Hike for Hospice 2005 - Images of a super day.
Spring 2005	The McGill Cancer Nutrition - Rehabilitation Programme;听 Volunteerism in Palliative Care.
Spring 2004	The Living Will;听 Book Review - Caring for Loved Ones at Home;听 Tribute to R. David Bourke.
Spring 2003听听听听听	听Music Therapy;听 S.M.I.L.E.S. 听Towards a Better Laughter Life.

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