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This November, the CPA hosted Leadership Forum in Ottawa. Throughout the three-day event, attendees explored what leadership means through the themes of self-improvement, innovation and practice management. On the final day leaders were asked to commit to taking at least one action in the next mo...

CPA’s Board of Directors is the governing body of the Association. It is the Board’s job to ensure that CPA fulfills its mission to advance the profession of physiotherapy in order to improve the health of Canadians. As a CPA member, you choose who serves on the Board, so it is helpful to know wh...

If you don’t use Twitter, CPA’s Senior Practice Manager Chantal Lauzon empathizes with you. She had “no interest” in being a part of a social media platform where celebrity updates and a seemingly infinite stream of information is the norm. But in early February, she changed her mind. I sat down ...

“Let’s not do that again.” That is the best way to sum up 2016 that I can think of. It may not have been the worst of the 50 years I’ve been around, but it ranks in the top two. We should have seen this coming. In late December of 2015, Ethan Couch, the infamous ‘affluenza kid’, was caught in Mex...

On November 4th, 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked why having a gender balanced cabinet was so important. His response was simple – “Because it is 2015”. (1) This succinct answer made me pause to reflect on my own career as a physiotherapist. Could I provide such a pointed answer if s...

Recently, a commentary by Dr. Louis Francescutti was posted on the Canadian Medical Association’s (CMA) website.  In it, he suggested there is a lack of accountability in the health system, and physicians need to take some responsibility to fix the problem.  He proposed one potential solution: ma...

  This post features two authors who shed more light on being a physiotherapist assistant (PTA). Aurelie writes about how she decided to pursue being a PTA, and Amy explains what it actually means to be one. Part I – The Backstory: How I Became a PTA Aurelie Dimandja, PTA I remember the summer b...

When I first began my physiotherapy (PT) career, I worked in a clinical area with a wonderful physiotherapist assistant (PTA).  We hadn’t learned much about this role in school and I wasn’t quite sure what I could assign to this person. Wasn’t I supposed to be able to do all of this stuff myself?...

You know that donations to the Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada (PFC) support Canadian researchers who contribute to your field. But did you know that PFC also invests in students? In 2016, CPA and PFC created two $10,000 Indigenous Student Awards to help address the significant gaps that exist...

Students can be a catalyst for change. If we wish to see physiotherapists working in emerging models of care or developing satisfying careers in out-of-the-way places, then we must provide our students with opportunities that sow the seeds for change. One training program that is attempting to ad...