Personal/Lap Blankets

A cozy lap blanket for TV watching is a small, easy-to-handle throw — usually fleece, sherpa, weighted, or heated — sized to cover your lap and shoulders while you sit on the couch or in a recliner, rather than a full bed-sized blanket. It’s the difference between “warm enough” and actually wanting to stay on … Read more

Let’s be honest: airline blankets have always been a gamble. Sometimes they’re serviceable. More often, they’re a thin sheet of polyester that does approximately nothing against a cabin air vent blasting cold air from Winnipeg at 35,000 feet. If you’ve ever wrapped yourself in one and still shivered through a red-eye from Vancouver to Toronto, … Read more

There’s a quiet challenge that doesn’t get nearly enough attention in Canadian senior care: staying warm while seated. Whether your loved one is in a nursing home in Winnipeg, using a wheelchair at a Vancouver assisted living facility, or simply reading by the window of a Toronto condo on a blustery February afternoon, staying warm … Read more

Picture this: it’s mid-January in Ottawa, the temperature outside is plummeting to -25°C (-13°F), and despite your building’s heating system working overtime, your office cubicle still feels like a refrigerator below the desk. Sound familiar? If you’ve ever spent a Canadian winter afternoon struggling to focus because your legs are freezing, you already know that … Read more