If you live in Canada, you likely have access to resources like the Canada Food Guide or the Child Tax Benefit. Maybe you've participated in Bike to Work Week or were supported at the hospitals in your efforts to breastfeed after giving birth. Have you ever wondered how these initiatives came to be? Likely not, they were just there. In this post, I explore the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, its impact in Canada and globally, and how it has presented itself in my paramed