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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...

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
  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...

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...

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...

Melissa Anderson, PT
  Welcome to the third edition of #30REPS! We launched this biennial project back in 2015, with 30 blog articles on the topic of strength training.  Our second edition, in 2017, saw 30 blog posts on issues of fraud, abuse and waste in health care.  Both campaigns were e...

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...

Sue Van Evra & Laurie Edge-Hughes, CPA Animal Rehab Division - Advocacy Committee
  Perhaps you think that the role of a division is simply education and knowledge translation.  While that is one ‘hat’ a division may wear, advocacy is another!  The Animal Rehabilitation Division (ARD) a...

Cathy Arnold and Sarah Oosman What’s the issue? Over the next 20 years, Canada’s population of adults over the age of 65 years is expected to rise by 68% reaching 10.4 million by 2037 with the number of adults 75 years and older doubling in most provinces, including Saskatchewan (Infographic: Ca...

Mary-Ann Dalzell
  Our family is very fortunate to live in a small, tight knit, lake-side community in Quebec where everyone knows one another and cares for one another. Knowing that I work in Oncology, I‘ve been approached many times by family, friends and neighbors who pass by my dock and...