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Melissa Anderson and Chantal Lauzon
  As many of you know, CPA is gearing up for its 100th anniversary in 2020. For this reason, we have focused #30REPS 2019 on current, past and future work of the association in three main areas: Advocacy Professional Practice, and Advancement
  T...

Welcome to the third edition of #30REPS!  As many of you know, CPA is gearing up for its 100th anniversary in 2020. For this reason, we have decided to focus on current, past and future work of the association in three main areas: Advocacy, Professional Practice, and Advancement. The photograph...

Aliki Thomas, Annie Rochette, Fatima Amari and the Canada EBP Project Team What is the recently graduated PT’s experience with evidence-based practice? Does it evolve over time? Physiotherapy students across Canada receive state-of-the-art education in order to be ready to enter a variety of com...

Chantal Lauzon   Planning for Congress 2020 is underway! This is the one you should plan to attend. We will be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association at the beautiful Shaw Centre in Ottawa, May 28-30, 2020. 
  Launching this summer is the Call for Presen...

Chantal Lauzon
  CPA has undertaken an environmental scan exploring various career pathways that exist within the profession, both in Canada and internationally, and within other health professions in Canada. The opportunity exists to stop and reflect on how we are doing things and to learn...

Chantal Lauzon, PT
  In 2015-2017, CPA embarked on a Quality Physiotherapy campaign. The final outcome was a toolkit to enable members to explore each dimension of quality at their own pace.
  A committee representing all facets of physiotherapy in Canada has adapted the definitions o...

Melissa Anderson, PT
  Having just survived the holidays with my family, the thought of a crowded dinner table comes to mind. Here, there are a lot of voices and a lot of conversations. Sometimes to make yourself heard, you need to speak with a stronger voice.
  Advocacy issues are of...

Dave Walton What is the question to which physiotherapy is the answer? That was a rather thought-provoking question posed to me by a very clever PT academic and historian named Dave Nicholls from Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Dave had reached out following a recent editorial I...

Melissa Anderson, PT
  Any federal election brings with it a number of opportunities for associations, including the chance to get their issues on the national agenda, the impetus to clarify their messages, and the opportunity to inform and mobilize their members. The upcoming election (Oc...

Melissa Anderson, PT
  The strength of CPA’s voice comes from our biggest asset - our membership. A national association that represents more than 15,000 physiotherapists, physiotherapist assistants, physical rehabilitation therapists, and physiotherapy students, we depend on our members to...