Happy Earth Day, 2024!

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🙏🌎 Happy Earth Day, 2024! 🙏🌎 Let us all love our planet by doing more to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Don’t forget to take care of our beautiful planet.
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National Volunteer Week

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National Volunteer Week takes place from April 14 to 20, 2024, and we wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to recognize and celebrate all the incredible volunteers in our BMG network. This year’s theme is Every Moment Matters, which highlights the impact volunteers have on others in the community and the organizations they support.…
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Spring Clean

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“Your mind is a garden, your thoughts the seeds, you can grow flowers or weeds.”             ~ Unknown   “Out of clutter, find simplicity.   From discord, find harmony.  In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”             ~ Albert Einstein   “Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.”             ~…
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April 15 is Micro-Volunteering Day!

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Today serves as a gentle reminder that even the smallest actions can have a significant impact on someone’s life. The true essence of kindness and compassion can be found in small, manageable actions. Even a listening ear or a genuine smile can lift someone’s spirits. Looking for a life-changing volunteer opportunity? Please email us at…
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Supreme Court Declares Indigenous Child Welfare Law Constitutional

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The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously upheld federal child welfare law “An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families, dismissing Quebec’s appeal in a landmark ruling affirming Indigenous peoples’ jurisdiction over child and family services. 

BMG Indigenous Services has developed a unique framework to advance self-determination in family and children’s services that can easily be adapted to your community’s unique needs. We have worked with five First Nations in Ontario in facilitating their processes to develop their own Child and Family Law. 

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I Think It’s Spring!

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“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”             ~ Ernst Hemingway   “The deep roots never doubt spring will come.”             ~ Marty Rubin   “Spring is far more than just a changing of seasons; it’s a rebirth of the spirit.”…
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Lonely Days!

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“Loneliness is the poverty of self; Solitude is the richness of self.”             ~ May Sarton   “You don’t always need a plan.  Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens!”             ~ Shannon Pucket   “It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos.”             ~ Donna Karan  …
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Self-Care

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“If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.”             ~ Thomas S. Monson   “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”             ~ Mahatma Gandhi   “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll…
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Chocolate

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“Chocolate is like duct tape.  It can fix anything.”             ~ Happy Mind Designs   “Nothing is as alluring as a piece of chocolate you can’t have.”             ~ Nina Sandmann   “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”             ~ Linda Grayson   “Chocolate is a gift…
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Transition

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“Transition in life can offer opportunities for discovery.”             ~ Robbie Shell   “To exists is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”             ~ Henri Bergson   “I’ve always believed there are moments in our lives which can be defined as a transition between the…
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