Canadian Massage Therapist Association

10/29/2026

🇨🇦 Massage Therapy Awareness Week 🇨🇦

✅ Registered Massage Therapists develop treatment plans based on their patients' needs, conditions and preferences
✅Registered Massage Therapists are integral partners in inter-professional healthcare teams
✅Continuing education and professional development is a requirement for Registered Massage Therapists

To learn more about RMTs in Canada, and to learn more about the work we're doing to support our member associations, visit our website:

Physiotherapy, chiropractic, and psychotherapy are all exempt from GST/HST. Massage therapy — the same regulated health care, often in the same clinic — is still taxed.

10/27/2026

🇨🇦 Massage Therapy Awareness Week 🇨🇦

What can you do to celebrate Massage Therapy Awareness Week?

You Can End the Tax.

The federal budget will be announced on November 5. This is our chance to make sure our message is heard.

Visit our website to send a letter to your MP and follow up with a phone call to make sure they hear you. This is an affordability issue for patients across the country.

https://crmta.ca/make-massage-therapy-tax-free/

🇨🇦 CMTA's member associations are:

NLMTA - Newfoundland Labrador Massage Therapists' Association
Prince Edward Island Massage Therapy Association
Massage Therapists' Association of Nova Scotia
ANBMT
Registered Massage Therapists' Association of Ontario
Massage Therapy Association of Manitoba Inc.
Massage Therapist Association of Saskatchewan
Registered Massage Therapists Association of British Columbia

10/26/2026

🇨🇦 Massage Therapy Awareness Week 🇨🇦

This week, October 25 - 31, we're recognizing and celebrating the important role Registered Massage Therapists delivering healthcare services in Canada.

To Registered Massage Therapists across the country, thank you.

Better Care, Together.

Prince Edward Island Massage Therapy Association
NLMTA - Newfoundland Labrador Massage Therapists' Association
Massage Therapists' Association of Nova Scotia
ANBMT
Registered Massage Therapists' Association of Ontario
Massage Therapy Association of Manitoba Inc.
Massage Therapist Association of Saskatchewan
Registered Massage Therapists Association of British Columbia

10/23/2026

Calling all RMTs - and patients - from coast to coast to coast!

NEW CODE, SAME MESSAGE - BUT NOW WE HAVE A DEADLINE

The federal budget will be released on November 5. This means now is our chance to make our voices heard. And it's time the federal government fixed this.

This poster has a NEW QR code that will take your patients to our letter-writing tool. Post it in your waiting rooms, on your information boards, and set a poster on your reception deck - make it easy for your patients to join us. And share this poster on your socials so your colleagues can make it available to their patients, too.

You Can End the Tax

Registered Massage Therapists' Association of Ontario
Massage Therapists' Association of Nova Scotia
Massage Therapist Association of Saskatchewan
Massage Therapy Association of Manitoba Inc.
NLMTA - Newfoundland Labrador Massage Therapists' Association
Massage Therapists' Association of Nova Scotia
ANBMT
Registered Massage Therapists Association of British Columbia

10/22/2026

Next week is the week - Massage Therapy Awareness Week in Canada! 🇨🇦

Join Alexsandra (Sandy) Koropas, RN, Certified Diabetes Nurse Educator, for "Diabetes & Metabolic Disease: What RMTs Need to Know".

Date: Oct. 29, 2026
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 CT

Free to attend!
Register here: https://crmta.ca/marketing-resources/

Better Care, Together.

Registered Massage Therapists' Association of Ontario
Massage Therapists' Association of Nova Scotia
Massage Therapist Association of Saskatchewan
Massage Therapy Association of Manitoba Inc.
Prince Edward Island Massage Therapy Association
NLMTA - Newfoundland Labrador Massage Therapists' Association
ANBMT
Registered Massage Therapists Association of British Columbia

10/21/2026

Next week is the week - Massage Therapy Awareness Week in Canada! 🇨🇦

Join Justin Monton, CLT, OT Reg. (MB), for "Lymphedema & Lipedema: Clinical Considerations for Massage Therapy".

Date: Oct. 27, 2026
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 CT
Free to attend!

Register here: https://crmta.ca/marketing-resources/
Better Care, Together.

Prince Edward Island Massage Therapy Association
NLMTA - Newfoundland Labrador Massage Therapists' Association
Massage Therapists' Association of Nova Scotia
ANBMT
Registered Massage Therapists' Association of Ontario
Massage Therapist Association of Saskatchewan
Registered Massage Therapists Association of British Columbia

10/20/2026

Next week is the week - Massage Therapy Awareness Week in Canada! 🇨🇦

Join Carolyn R. Weiss, MSc, DC for her session "Concussion: Clinical Considerations for RMT Practice".

Date: Oct. 26, 2026
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 CT

Free to attend!

Register here: https://crmta.ca/marketing-resources/

Better Care, Together.

Registered Massage Therapists Association of British Columbia
Massage Therapy Association of Manitoba Inc.
Massage Therapist Association of Saskatchewan
Registered Massage Therapists' Association of Ontario
ANBMT
Massage Therapists' Association of Nova Scotia
NLMTA - Newfoundland Labrador Massage Therapists' Association
Prince Edward Island Massage Therapy Association

10/19/2026

Next week is the week - Massage Therapy Awareness Week in Canada! 🇨🇦

Our colleagues at the Registered Massage Therapists' Association of Ontario have a great session planned - and its open to all of you:

Explore how abuse and relational trauma can affect the brain, body, and nervous system, and how this understanding can support more informed, trauma-responsive care in massage therapy practice.

Take part in Melanie Lévesque’s More Than Muscle Tension: Understanding the Physiology of Abuse in RMT Practice webinar.

Date: Oct. 27, 2026
Time: 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

As part of Massage Therapy Awareness Week, this webinar is free to attend!

REGISTER: https://www.rmtao.com/226779

And don't forget to also check out CMTA's national education series: https://crmta.ca/marketing-resources/

Better Care, Together.

10/15/2026

Calling all RMTs from coast to coast to coast!

It's time we ask your patients and clients to advocate for Tax Exemption for Massage Therapy - because this is about them, and affordability. And it's time the federal government fixed this.

This poster has a QR code that will take your patients to our letter-writing tool. Post it in your waiting rooms, on your information boards, and set a poster on your reception deck - make it easy for your patients to join us. And share this poster on your socials so your colleagues can make it available to their patients, too.

You Can End the Tax



Massage Therapy Association of Manitoba Inc.
Registered Massage Therapists' Association of Ontario
Massage Therapists' Association of Nova Scotia
Massage Therapist Association of Saskatchewan
Registered Massage Therapists Association of British Columbia
ANBMT
NLMTA - Newfoundland Labrador Massage Therapists' Association
Prince Edward Island Massage Therapy Association

10/14/2026

Better Care, Together.

October 25 - 31 is Massage Therapy Awareness Week in Canada, and we are recognizing and celebrating the important role Registered Massage Therapists hold in interdisciplinary healthcare.

RMTs from across the country are invited to join our national education series - because great care doesn't happen in isolation. Registration is open!



Registered Massage Therapists Association of British Columbia
Massage Therapist Association of Saskatchewan
Massage Therapy Association of Manitoba Inc.
Massage Therapists' Association of Nova Scotia
ANBMT
Registered Massage Therapists' Association of Ontario