Category: Helping Hands

The #MealsontheMove project has delivered thousands of meals to health care workers, first responders, shelters, food banks, and more.

Hospital staff worked quickly to install communications apps on the tablets so people can see and speak with hospitalized family members who cannot receive visitors.

Tim Coombs has distributed 17,000 to date and continues daily production.

The teachers at Woodroffe High School, which is near hard-hit Carlingview Manor, are buying toiletries for seniors and healthy snacks for staff members.

aTouchAway makes it easy for people in hospitals or nursing homes to video-call their loved ones while in-person visits are restricted due to COVID-19.

We Feed The Need is making it their mission to lift spirits and help feed frontline health care workers.

L'entreprise biopharmaceutique Medicago a annoncé que les résultats de la première ronde de tests sont positifs.

If successful, the new product could also benefit the Nova Scotia forestry sector, which suffered the loss of a major pulp plant in January.

Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment program aims to deliver 13,000 meals a day.

Aritzia aims to gift clothing packages to 150,000 Canadian frontline health care professionals who are working against spread of Covid-19.

Chartered professional accountants will prepare tax returns for Ontario health care workers free of charge, as a thank-you for their work fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Using or improving on open-source designs, volunteers are making everything from ear guards and face shields to a ventilator connector.

The Clean Flow Mini was invented to sanitize apples and other produce, but owner Paul Moyer realized it might be able to help fight COVID-19 by cleaning used masks.

Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, Dr. Theresa Tam took to Twitter to share inspiring examples of Canadians who are joining the call for volunteers.

Staff at the hospital have set up a fundraising campaign to lend support to organizations helping the homeless.

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, qui vient d’emporter le Super Bowl avec les Chiefs de Kansas City, essaie d'aider comme il peut.

Cristine Rotenberg and Ben Mazowita started $3,000 tabs at three Ottawa restaurants so health care workers can order a complimentary takeout meal.

The meals are being distributed to the city’s front-line health care workers and vulnerable persons experiencing food insecurity.

Restaurant owner Imran Javaid is serving up hundreds free meals a week, no questions asked.

People were asked to drop off cash donations for the Whitehorse Food Bank. According to a spokesperson for Yukon Brewing, $8,556 was raised for the food bank.

Dave Caputo’s company now builds anti-microbial barriers that prevent the spread of COVID-19 between hospital patients, rather than keeping flu from spreading among hog populations.

In recognition of the exceptional pressures facing health care today, this funding will be allocated to support urgent needs within the health care system.

Carl Abellana is using his own phone and tablet to help seniors video chat with loved ones who cannot visit them during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Students have set up a donation drive to support the effort against COVID-19.

The simple plastic guards alleviate ear strain for health care workers wearing protective masks around the clock.