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Welcome to the Grief Matters blog. We intend for this space to provide an opportunity for the Grief Matters community to write, read, share, and reflect about ‘all things grief.’ At Grief Matters, we understand grief as the experience of loss. This loss could be a death (a human, an animal). It could also be the loss of something else: your health, a job, an opportunity, a future goal, or dream.

While grief can look and feel different to every individual, we live our grief within our social networks and in our communities. We feel that community matters deeply to the experience of grief. So, we invite you to share with us in order to help create more grief-attuned communities.   

How does grief matter to you?   

What grief matters are important to you?   

Email us your ideas about how you could contribute to the Grief Matters blog. Please see our guest bloggers guidelines.

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We are the ‘public’ in the public health approach to grief. So, why does this matter?
Mary Ellen Macdonald Mary Ellen Macdonald

We are the ‘public’ in the public health approach to grief. So, why does this matter?

Grief is having a moment. In Canada, at least.

We can thank Canadian Grief Alliance (CGA) for being an early adopter and pushing conversations about grief. CGA was formed by concerned Canadians who anticipated an avalanche of grief due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CGA lobbied successfully to get grief onto the 2023 federal budget for the first time in Canadian history. Amazing.

Photo by Timon Studler

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