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2021 Women of Inspiration™ Award Winners
Women of Inspiration lead, inspire, and motivate others to greatness! Dr. Smita Pakhale was awarded 2021 Women of Inspiration ™ Difference Maker Award.
It takes a village to kick an addiction
As a respirologist at the Ottawa Hospital, Dr. Smita Pakhalé has seen all too many patients suffering through the end stages of serious lung disease…
Toronto collaborators repeat lessons of ‘transformative’ project to help people in poverty stop smoking
Eva Scott started smoking by the time she was 11 and calls smoking her drug of “last resort” to ease the trauma of years of alcoholism and homelessness. Scott stopped drinking…
Vaping to be studied as a way for homeless to kick smoking habit
An Ottawa doctor is leading a study to see if vaping can help homeless people in the city kick their addiction to smoking tobacco. The nation’s capital has one of the lowest…
Ted Bignell finishes the 5K and raises $10K in the process – here’s why
A First Nation man in Ottawa is putting his best foot forward, literally. Ted Bignell is walked to make a difference Saturday during the race weekend.
Homeless man battling addictions set to walk and raise money for centre that is helping him
A First Nations man in Ottawa is giving back to a centre this is helping him fight his addictions. Ted Bignell is hoping that his steps will help make a difference during the…
Raise the minimum age to buy cigarettes to 21, says physicians group
A group of physicians from the Ottawa Hospital and another representing the American Thoracic Society Tobacco Action Committee has come out in favour of a campaign called…
Egan: How to get street people off drug? Get them off smokes, study suggests
In 2013, a study of 858 HIV at-risk drug users in Ottawa uncovered a startling, off-hand statistic: 96 per cent were smokers. It hardly surprised Dr. Smite Pakhalé, a staff…