{"id":3526,"date":"2025-12-03T11:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:41:17","slug":"bchc-december-2025-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/bchc-december-2025-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"BCHC December 2025 newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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News & resources from BCHC \u2013 December 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Building Healthy Communities together<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sign up for an AFC webinar on emergency preparedness <\/h1>\n

Learn how inclusive, age-friendly and Indigenous-guided strategies can improve local emergency preparedness across B.C. communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Lumby seniors dig into food, friendship and community solutions <\/h2>\n

Lumby’s Seniors Wellness and Food Fair offered a free air-fryer demo, live music, and showcased how food and community powerfully unite seniors, drawing nearly 100 attendees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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How can we elevate adult physical activity in Canada?<\/h2>\n

Read the 2025 ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Adults to find out<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Uprooting Ageism: Empowering
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Discover the Ageism Toolkit by the CCAA, a vital resource aimed at raising awareness and inspiring action against ageism. Join us in fostering dialogue and transformation!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n

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Redefining Older Adult Play<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Join a webinar by Cities for Everyone on January 27 to explore how playful urban design combats loneliness in older adults. Experts discuss innovative research on creating age-friendly, joyful public spaces for seniors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Share Your Climate Change Stories<\/h2>\n

Residents of BC can now share personal experiences about climate change’s impact on health and well-being at ecolens.ca<\/a>. Contribute your story through writing, art or photos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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New Sick Note
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New regulations now prevent employers from requiring sick notes for short-term absences of up to five days. This change aims to reduce paperwork and allow healthcare providers to focus on patient care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n

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News & resources from BCHC \u2013 December 2025 Building Healthy Communities together Sign up for an AFC webinar on emergency preparedness Learn how inclusive, age-friendly and Indigenous-guided strategies can improve local emergency preparedness across B.C. communities. READ MORE READ MORE Lumby seniors dig into food, friendship and community solutions Lumby’s Seniors Wellness and Food Fair offered a free air-fryer demo, live music, and showcased how food and community powerfully unite seniors,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mATQFimX2ANQRYf8bgSe4G-1.png",612,176,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Patrick Dunne","author_link":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/author\/bchc_admin\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":6,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":6,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/3535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}