Mental Health Crisis Support
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Air Filters
- Aller Air
www.allerair.com - IQ Air
www.iqair.com
- Aller Air
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Air Testing
- Air Quality Solutions
1-844-247-8378
airqualitysolutions.ca - Verify Air Quality Testing
905-208-8887
verifyairqualitytest.ca
- Air Quality Solutions
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Chemical Free Home
- My Chemical Free House
www.mychemicalfreehouse.net
- My Chemical Free House
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ERV & HRV Systems
- Air Quality Dunrite
airqualitydunrite.com
- Air Quality Dunrite
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Housing
- Supportive Housing
www.ontario.ca/page/ministry-municipal-affairs-housing - Independent Living Resource Centres
www.ilc-vac.ca - North Yorkers for Disabled Persons
www.nydp.ca - Bellwoods Centres For Community Living
www.bellwoodscentres.org - Muskoka Tiny Homes
muskokatinyhomes.com - 211 Ontario
211ontario.ca
- Supportive Housing
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HVAC System Installers
- Air Quality Dunrite
airqualitydunrite.com
- Air Quality Dunrite
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Mattresses
- Obasan
obasan.ca - Naturelle
naturelleorganicbeds.ca
- Obasan
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Mold Remediation
- Stellar Environmental
stellarenvironmental.ca - Addressing mould in your home
- CCOH Mould Resource
www.ccohs.ca/topics/hazards/health/mould/
- Stellar Environmental
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Water Filters
- Brondell: water filter, shower head, tub filter
brondell.com
- Brondell: water filter, shower head, tub filter
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Zero to Low VOCs Paint
- ECOS Paints
ecospaints.net - AFM Safecoat Zero-VOC Paint
www.thegreendesigncenter.com - Durosoy
www.ecosafetyproducts.com - Green Planet Paints
www.greenplanetpaints.com - Benjamin Moore
www.benjaminmoore.com/ - Sherwin Williams Harmony
www.sherwin-williams.com/ - Valspar Simplicity
www.lowes.com/
- ECOS Paints
Disability Services
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Disability Services
- Abilities (cross-disability magazine)
www.abilities.ca - Ontario Disability Service Program (ODSP)
www.mcss.gov.on.ca - The Inter-University Disability Issues Association (IDIA)
www.idia.ca - Canadian Association of Professionals with Disabilities
www.canadianprofessionals.org - The Canadian Centre on Disability Studies (CCDS)
www.disabilitystudies.ca - The Canadian Abilities Foundation (CAF)
abilities.ca - Vibrant Healthcare Alliance
www.vibranthealthcare.ca - ARCH Disability Law Centre
archdisabilitylaw.ca
- Abilities (cross-disability magazine)
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Employment and Disabilities
- Join Opportunity Information Network (JOIN)
www.joininfo.ca - ACCES Employment
www.accessemployment.com - Workplace Essential Skills Partnership (WESP)
www.ccrw.org - Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW)
www.ccrw.org - WORKink
www.workink.com - Wilkie, Cara and David Baker (2007). Accommodation for Environmental Sensitivities: Legal Perspective. Canadian Human Rights Commission.
www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/sites/default/files/legal_sensitivity_en_1.pdf
- Join Opportunity Information Network (JOIN)
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Income Assistance
- Employment Insurance
www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei.html - Canada Pension Plan Disability
www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/disability/benefits/index.shtml - The Income Security Advocacy Centre
incomesecurity.org - Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) (Provincial)
https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-disability-support-program - Employment Insurance Sickness Benefits (Federal)
https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei/ei-sickness/apply.html - Canada Pension Plan Disability (Federal)
https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/publicpensions/cpp/cpp-disability-benefit.html - Disability Tax Credit (Federal)
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individuals/segments/tax-credits-deductions-persons-disabilities/disability-tax-credit.html
- Employment Insurance
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Legal Services
- Legal Aid
www.legalaid.on.ca - Human Rights Commission
www.ohrc.on.ca - ARCH, A Legal Resource Centre for Persons with Disabilities
archdisabilitylaw.ca - Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)
www.cleo.on.ca
- Legal Aid
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Legal/Rights/Policy
- WSIB
www.wsib.ca - Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety
www.ccohs.ca - Environmental Working Group (search for safe products, guides)
www.ewg.org - Scent-Free Workplace Policy Fact Sheet
www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/hsprograms/scent_free.html - Canadian Centre for Housing Rights
housingrightscanada.com
- WSIB
Personal
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Chemicals
- Chemical Free Gal
chemicalfreegal.com - Dispatches from the chemical edge (Blog/Info/Advocacy)
chemical-edge.com
- Chemical Free Gal
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Less Toxic Products
- Guide to Less Toxic Products (by the Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia)
www.lesstoxicguide.ca
- Guide to Less Toxic Products (by the Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia)
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Masks
- I Can Breathe! Masks
i-can-breathe-masks.myshopify.com
- I Can Breathe! Masks
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Scent Free Products
- Ambrosia
ambrosia.ca - Loblaws
loblaw.ca - Whole Foods
wholefoodsmarket.com - Nature's Emporium
naturesemporium.com - Healthy Planet
healthyplanetcanada.com - Organic Garage
organicgarage.com - Scent Free Resource Sheet
eastbaymeditation.org/resources/fragrance-free-at-ebmc/#toggle-id-6
- Ambrosia
Mental Health
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Cognitive Distortions
- 50 common cognitive distortions—A giant list of ubiquitous cognitive distortions. Psychology Today
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-practice/201301/50-common-cognitive-distortions
- 50 common cognitive distortions—A giant list of ubiquitous cognitive distortions. Psychology Today
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Coping
- Mindfulness & Trauma Recovery
davidtreleaven.com - Amelia Hill (coping, illness, change)
ameliahill.com - Managing Grief & Loss
grief.com - Centre for Loss
www.centerforloss.com - Grief Yoga
griefyoga.com
- Mindfulness & Trauma Recovery
Other Organizations
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Advocacy
- Ecojustice.ca (Advocacy—health, community, environment)
ecojustice.ca
- Ecojustice.ca (Advocacy—health, community, environment)
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Organizations
- Electromagnetic Safety Alliance
emsafetyalliance.org - Electromagnetic Safety AllianceMCS-Canada
mcs-canada.weebly.com - Environmental Sensitivities Coalition of Canada
environmentalsensitivities.org - Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia
www.environmentalhealth.ca - Science and Environmental Health Network
www.sehn.org - Environmental Health Centre—Dallas
www.ehcd.com - Environmental Justice Foundation
ejfoundation.org - Bioneers: A Revolution from the Heart of Nature
bioneers.org - Near-North Enviro-Education Centre
www.nneec.ca - Solve ME/CFS
solvecfs.org - C4ST
c4st.org - The Electrosensitive Society
- Electromagnetic Safety Alliance
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Support Groups
- National ME Action Network (Canada)
www.mefmaction.com
- National ME Action Network (Canada)
Health
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Care
- Seeking Care for the Chemically Sensitive in Ontario
chemical-edge.com/es-mcs-in-ontario
- Seeking Care for the Chemically Sensitive in Ontario
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Chemicals
Duncan, David Ewing (2006). The Chemicals Within Us. National Geographic www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/chemicals-within-us
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Dental
- Rooted Dental
www.rooteddentalto.com
- Rooted Dental
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Environment & Health
- Planet Thrive (online magazine/community—environmental health conditions)
planetthrive.com - Wing, Steve. (2005). Environmental Justice, Science, and Public Health. Environmental Health Perspectives. 10.
www.brown.edu/research/research-ethics/sites/brown.edu.research.research-ethics/files/uploads/Environmental%20justice%20-%20Steve%20Wing.pdf - Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment. 2010. Advancing Environmental Health in Child Care Settings: A Checklist for Child Care Practitioners and Public Health Inspectors. Toronto, ON: CPCHE.
https://policywise.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Advancing-Environmental-Health-in-Child-Care-Settings-A-Checklist-for-Child-Care-Practitioners-and-Public-Health-Inspectors-1.pdf - Environmental Health—What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You (Dr. Riina Bray, speaking at Near North Enviro-Education Centre)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nouifTpn09M
- Planet Thrive (online magazine/community—environmental health conditions)
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Environmental Sensitivities
- Gustafson C. (2016). William Rea, MD. Investigating Environmental Sensitivities May Resolve "Uncurable" Illness. Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.), 15(1), 24–26.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818065/ - Dr. William Rea—List of publications (environmental sensitivities, mold, etc.)
www.researchgate.net/profile/William-Rea-2 - Marshall, Lynn, Alison Bested, John Molot, Kathleen Kerr and Riina I. Bray. (2011) Environmental Sensitivities - Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Status Report: Advances in Knowledge, and Current Service Gaps. Environmental Health Clinic, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto.
www.womenscollegehospital.ca/assets/pdf/environmental/ESMCSStatusReportJune22011.pdf - Wilkie, Cara and David Baker (2007). Accommodation for Environmental Sensitivities: Legal Perspective. Canadian Human Rights Commission.
www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/sites/default/files/legal_sensitivity_en_1.pdf - Sears, Margaret. (2007). The Medical Perspective on Environmental Sensitivities. Canadian Human Rights Commission.
www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/sites/default/files/envsensitivity_en.pdf - Sears, Margaret. (2007). The Medical Perspective on Environmental Sensitivities. Canadian Human Rights Commission.
www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/sites/default/files/envsensitivity_en.pdf
- Gustafson C. (2016). William Rea, MD. Investigating Environmental Sensitivities May Resolve "Uncurable" Illness. Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.), 15(1), 24–26.
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Fibromyalgia, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis & Chronic Fatigue
- Canadian Fibromyalgia guidelines
rheum.ca/resources/publications/canadian-fibromyalgia-guidelines/ - Dr. Eleanor Stein (general resources & education)
www.eleanorsteinmd.ca - CFS/ME Self Help
www.cfsselfhelp.org - ME-pedia (via MENetwork)
me-pedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_MEpedia - Marshall, Lynn, Alison Bested & Riina Bray. (2004). Tools to Treat Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and multiple chemical sensitivity.
www.researchgate.net/publication/242763639_Tools_to_Treat_Chronic_fatigue_syndrome_fibromyalgia_and_multiple_chemical_sensitivity - Bested, A. & Marshall, L. (2015). Review of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: an evidence-based approach to diagnosis and management by clinicians. Reviews on Environmental Health, 30(4), 223-249.
- Bateman, Lucinda & Alison Bested, Hector Bonilla & Bela Chheda (et al.) (2021). Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Essentials of Diagnosis and Management. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 96.
- Friedman, Kenneth J. (2019). Advances in ME/CFS: Past, Present, and Future. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 7, pp 131.
- Bested, Alison. (2018). Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic fatigue syndrome: Insights & advances in care. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 24, 32-33.
- Larrimore, C., Ramnot, A., Jaghab, A., Sarduy, S., Guerrero, G., Troccoli, P., Hilton, K. & Bested, A. (2019). Understanding Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue
- Syndrome and the Emerging Osteopathic Approach: A Narrative Review. The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 119(7), 446-455.
https://doi.org/10.7556/jaoa.2019.081 - Ruth Lavergne, Donald Cole, Kathleen Kerr and Lynn Marshall. (2010). Functional impairment in chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and multiple chemical sensitivity. Canadian Family Physician, 56 (2), 57-65.
https://doi.org/10.7556/jaoa.2019.081 - Hu, Howard and Cornelia Baines. (2018). Recent insights into 3 underrecognized conditions: Myalgic encephalomyelitis-chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and environmental sensitivities-multiple chemical sensitivity. Canadian Family Physician, 64, 413-415.
- Cuesta, Almudena, Álvaro Garciandía, Cristina Quintana and Marta Iglesias. (2021). Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Illness Experiences. Clinical Nursing Research, 30(1), pp. 32–41
- Living with chronic illness
medium.com/no-end-in-sight - Time for Leadership: Recognizing and Improving Care for those with ME/CFS, FM and ES/MCS Government of Ontario Task Force on Environmental Health – Phase 1 Report (2017)
www.health.gov.on.ca/en/common/ministry/publications/reports/environmental_health_2017/task_force_on_environmental_health_report.pdf - Time for Leadership: Recognizing and Improving Care for those with ME/CFS, FM and ES/MCS Government of Ontario Task Force on Environmental Health – Phase 1 Report (2017)
www.health.gov.on.ca/en/common/ministry/publications/reports/environmental_health_2017/task_force_on_environmental_health_report.pdf - No End In Sight (living with chronic illness)
noendinsight.co - Invisible Not Broken (chronic illness)
open.spotify.com/show/3Jx6qPsGmXWk4APuTO1UiF?si=96bee294df454165
- Canadian Fibromyalgia guidelines
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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
- Learning About MCS (Abilities.ca)
www.abilities.ca/top-stories/learning-about-multiple-chemical-sensitivity - Alison Johnson’s Books and Documentaries on MCS
www.alisonjohnsonmcs.com/ - Seriously "Sensitive" to Pollution: Environmental Health: Living in a Polluted World
seriouslysensitivetopollution.org - Lipson, Juliene. (2004) Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: Stigma and Social Experiences. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pp. 200–213.
- Molot, John, Margaret Sears, Lynn Marshall and Riina Bray. (2021) Neurological susceptibility to environmental exposures: pathophysiological mechanisms in neurodegeneration and multiple chemical sensitivity. Reviews on Environmental Health
- Winder C. (2002). Mechanisms of multiple chemical sensitivity. Toxicology Letters, 128(1-3):85-97.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11869820/ - Gibson, Pamela Reed. (2002). Understanding and Accommodating People with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities in Independent Living. Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU)
www.ilru.org/sites/default/files/MCS%20FINAL.PDF - Marshall, Lynn, Alison Bested, John Molot, Kathleen Kerr and Riina I. Bray. (2011) Environmental Sensitivities - Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Status Report: Advances in Knowledge, and Current Service Gaps. Environmental Health Clinic, Women’s College Hospital, Toronto.
www.womenscollegehospital.ca/assets/pdf/environmental/ESMCSStatusReportJune22011.pdf - Gibson, Pamela Reed. (2002). Understanding and Accommodating People with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities in Independent Living. Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU)
www.ilru.org/sites/default/files/MCS%20FINAL.PDF - Chemical Sensitivity Podcast
www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org
- Learning About MCS (Abilities.ca)
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Prescription Drug Assistance
- Trillium Drug Program
- innoviCares (reduces some prescription drug costs)
innovicares.ca - RXHelps (reduces some prescription drug costs)
www.rxhelp.ca - Pfizer Originals (Patient Assistance Program)
www.pfizeroriginals.ca/assistancecard
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Symptom Management Resources
- EFT (tapping, article)
www.thetappingsolution.com/chronic-pain-relief/ - EFT tapping
- Restorative yoga for exhaustion
https://youtu.be/UkQ1fEAbZzE - Yoga for chronic fatigue
https://youtu.be/8Up9pPROnJ0 - Deep Relaxation
https://youtu.be/ZsL72WDNYI8 - Gentle yoga for beginners
https://youtu.be/GdOV5uCtxlM - 20 minute gentle stretch yoga
https://youtu.be/tXD7hzUpk8g - 10 minute morning stretch
https://youtu.be/T41mYCmtWls - Yoga Nidra for Inner Peace and Healing
https://youtu.be/AEiC6Cnmi9I - Guided Self Reiki Session
https://youtu.be/quniup9ZADk - Distance Reiki for Insomnia and Sleep Problems
https://youtu.be/NdZPErWLigo - Reiki body scan for sleep
https://youtu.be/rkp8R-HlTYk - Guided Reiki Meditation for Deep Sleep
https://youtu.be/quniup9ZADk - Reiki Sleep Meditation—Ocean Sounds
https://youtu.be/G0CdoC0IFl0
- EFT (tapping, article)
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Testing
- The DNA Company
thednacompany.com - Mosaic Diagnostics
mosaicdx.com/test/mycotox-profile/
- The DNA Company
Transportation
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Transportation
- AVS
accessiblevehicleservices.com - Call A Service Inc./Harmony Hall Centre for Seniors
www.call-a-service.com - Dignity Transportation Inc.
www.dignitytransportation.com - Wheelchair Accessible Transit
www.wheelchairtransit.com - Wheel-Trans
www.wheelchairtransit.com
- AVS