People First Radio
By Vancouver Island Mental Health Society
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People First Radio is a weekly one-hour radio broadcast to educate and raise awareness about issues related to health and wellness — with a particular emphasis on topics related to mental illness and mental health, homelessness and housing, and addiction, harm reduction and recovery.
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Exploring the history of a Saskatchewan mental hospital
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May 24, 2026 |
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Retired judge turned busker shares stories from cross Canada tour
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May 16, 2026 |
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“Street Dr. Jill” talks influencing on homelessness and healthcare
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May 07, 2026 |
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Nanaimo supportive housing site celebrates 10 years
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May 01, 2026 |
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Crafting a high school curriculum on homelessness
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Unpacking 10 years of a public health emergency
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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VIU researcher looking at intersection between local government and overlapping crises
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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“Finding a passion…really can save your life” – autobiographical Boy Player hits the stage in Nanaimo
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Nurse, UVic PhD student looking at chronic pain and sexuality
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Drug user group co-hosting its first author talk in Nanaimo
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Mountain Muscox providing support for people who’ve experienced trauma in the backcountry
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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“We’re all working hard, I’d like people to know” – Rethinking Drinking panelist shares story
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Checking the levels on music industry mental health
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Victoria company aims to translate in patient treatment experience to online format
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Hungry stories project looking to spark solutions on food insecurity
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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A visit to the Ethics Bowl
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Victoria filmmaker’s Mildlife aiming to avoid tropes in depicting disability
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Nanaimo stage show explores emotional journey of an artist
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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After lifetime in resource industries, island resident reflects on sustainability
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Friends found group offering free pet care for those in addiction treatment
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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A visit to 1030 Old Victoria Road
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Medical psychiatrist explores interaction between generative AI and psychosis
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Reflections on a changing relationship with the gym
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Play set in dementia care home seeks to make space to talk about memory loss
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Cowichan Valley exhibit brings local artists together to explore mental health
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Breaking down conditional approval of drug to treat Alzheimer’s
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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Aging out of care focus of Senate Human Rights Committee report
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Western prof talks relationship anarchy
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Talking the model for a planned sober supportive housing site in Victoria
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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Nanaimo supportive housing planned for those aiming to minimize substance use
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Ukrainian family’s story of moving to Nanaimo inspires children’s book
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Victoria volunteers offer listening ear to strangers
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Colwood Mayor talks model bringing family doctors to the community
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Pediatrician calls for improved response to youth opioid use
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Nurse practitioner shares how experience of addiction informs his practice
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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U.K. researcher calls for improved support around weight gain after mental illness diagnosis
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Patty Douglas talks ‘Unmothering Autism’
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Researcher looks at culture around autism and Applied Behaviour Analysis
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Documentary shares lived experience of self injury
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Exploring opioid agonist treatment with a pair of addictions medicine doctors
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Concordia prof calls for more intentional relationships with our phones
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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White Cart Memorial puts focus on grief and homelessness
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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The interplay between pet and human mental health
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Historians explore the links between disability, history, and power
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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First United calls for end to pet bans, other reforms for renters in law reform platform
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Comox Valley resident shares healing journey following cancer diagnosis
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Vancouver Island author explores inter-generational trauma in debut novel
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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‘Most Canadians are annoyed by this’ – doctor raises concerns around sports gambling ads
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Research insights into women’s experiences of intimate partner stalking
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Firsthand experience of opioid addiction, recovery shared at Parksville IOAD event
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Report examines youth gambling and gaming in B.C.
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Sleep Country Canada co-founder shares experience of cocaine addiction, recovery
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Lawyer Nicole Letourneau shares experience recovering from alcohol addiction
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Francis Baptiste using music to share ‘Lived Experience in East Vancouver’
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Trevor Botkin drawing on experiences in recovery to bring peer support to construction
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Lawyer and former psychiatric nurse shares experiences with severe clinical depression
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Observations from more than a decade working in the women’s shelter system
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Release from jail into homelessness highlighted in new report
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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How crochet helped Michael Sellick through tough times
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Authors raise concern about corporate capture in the ‘psychedelic renaissance’
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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New research from Victoria aims to improve healthcare for people with brain injuries
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Sharing a first hand account of a mental health related hospital stay
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Victoria CRCL team aims to provide community led crisis response
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Youth led Oceanside group bringing kids together to create change
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May 30, 2025 |
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Carleton prof offers summer reading picks on wellness
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May 26, 2025 |
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Study provides insights on life without friendship
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May 23, 2025 |
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A critical perspective on involuntary care
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May 16, 2025 |
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A mom’s journey with video game addiction in the family
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May 09, 2025 |
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Nanaimo highschooler who volunteers with seniors wins $100,000 scholarship, hopes to become family doctor
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May 05, 2025 |
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‘The Stigmacrusher’ talks lived experience of bipolar, and ‘unmasking mental health’
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May 03, 2025 |
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Opal Dar overcoming physical, emotional, and financial barriers as a critically ill artist living below the poverty line
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Victoria addictions doctor speaks at pop-up OPS
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Retired CFL star Andrew Harris returns to Nanaimo for fireside chat on mental health
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Ethnobotanist Leigh Joseph says there’s benefit for everyone in deepening our relationships with plants
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Evelyn Thompson-George on sharing her father’s story surviving residential school
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Exploring the intersections of poverty and the justice system in Quebec
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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A perspective on labeling and mental illness
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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U.K. barrister argues against landlords
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Nanaimo doctors hoping Social prescribing can help provide ‘the connection cure’
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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PBO says basic income framework would reduce poverty rate by 40%
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Longtime Victoria resident wants people to feel like stakeholders
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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A mom’s journey to helping others following family trauma
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Researcher raises concerns over Ontario’s approach around online gambling
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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The Sound of a Pandemic explores Victoria teen’s first symphony
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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One youth’s journey from volunteer to co-chair of the board of Kids Help Phone
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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The plan to end chronic homelessness in Manitoba
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Stories from an unsanctioned overdose prevention site launch in the Comox Valley
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Victoria residents remember brothers, start new group for people grieving loss of siblings
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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The impact storage can have for those living on the street
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Using chess to help youth in Alberta’s justice system
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Victoria research project led to charity helping with low cost prosthetics
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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A personal experience of ECT
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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A cultural history of shock treatment
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Success as a driver of visible homelessness?
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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“There is a space for you” – finding an environment to thrive
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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“You are worth more than what you are at any given moment” – Isaiah Neil shares his story
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Restorative justice in the Cowichan Valley
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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A story of six plus decades of sisterhood
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Addiction medicine doctors talk treatment south of the border
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Taking stock of AI companion bots
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Psychologist flags trend of social media inspired self-diagnosis
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Three sisters share memories, perspectives, from growing up with a loved one with schizophrenia
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Clinical psychologist Jonathan Stea on mental health and the wellness industry
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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A young man’s journey from getting help to mental health advocacy
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Debriefing Nanaimo’s International Overdose Awareness Day Event
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Stories from International Overdose Awareness Day in Nanaimo and Victoria
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Author rowing up Salish Sea struck by decency, empathy, of others on the water
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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The long road to an EDS diagnosis
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Nanaimo development converts office space to living space
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Researcher says evidenced backed drug use prevention programs ready for schools
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Brandon Kirk creating space to share stories of life beyond addiction
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Victoria’s Uni 101 program brings campus experience to people facing barriers
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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On ‘seeds of hope’ and grad from a parent’s eyes
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Research suggests people want to connect with old friends, hesitate to make first move
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Individuals taking action to address homelessness in Yellowknife
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Capturing the experience of OCD in a video game
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Using social media posts to help diagnose psychosis related conditions?
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Researcher calls for regulation as way out of toxic drug crisis
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Exploring brain injury – part 2
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Exploring brain injury – Part 1
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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‘Our goal is always that they get to go back home’ – perspectives from a foster parent
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Charlie Cavanagh talks mental health in elite sport after retirement from boxing
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Oecanside group coming together to create big impact for local charities
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Writer Matthew Heneghan shares story of recovery
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Homesharing non-profit Happipad aims to fill empty bedrooms
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Evaluating Ottawa’s rules around alcohol
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Vancouver clothing brand founder’s ‘stubborn’ commitment to inclusivity and sustainability
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Guy Felicella headlines speakers at community dialogue in Nanaimo
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Youth led non-profit born from Sunday making sandwiches
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May 31, 2024 |
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Parksville’s Earl Blacklock recognized for expanding counselling services on Vancouver Island
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May 27, 2024 |
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Mapping out evictions across B.C.
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May 24, 2024 |
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Comox Valley organization turns shipping containers into homes
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May 20, 2024 |
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Victoria ‘cafe classroom’ providing opportunities to youth who face barriers
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May 19, 2024 |
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Monday Lunch Together using food to help people move forward
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May 17, 2024 |
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Chatting AI therapy apps
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May 13, 2024 |
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Victoria’s Red Cedar Cafe turning potential food waste into meals
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May 11, 2024 |
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Sensory processing disorder from a parent’s point of view
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May 10, 2024 |
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Supportive housing tenant shares thoughts ahead of move into new Nanaimo building
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May 06, 2024 |
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Training people who’ve experienced homelessness to be walking tour guides
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May 03, 2024 |
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Qualicum Beach artist Amarii shares his journey to signing with Kolossal Records
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Stepping back up after a traumatic injury in the line of duty: Laurie White’s story
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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The emotional impacts of harm reduction work
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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8 years of a public health emergency in B.C.
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Talking school social media lawsuits
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Turning medical records into poetry
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Talking Tailgate Toolkit – substance use education in construction
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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U of A student shares experience with psychosis
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Exploring screen depictions of mental health and mental illness
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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A view of prison from the inside
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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‘It’s a microcosm of the world’ – Canadian prison experiences
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Would you exercise more for a dollar a day?
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Housing and homelessness in Finland
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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“Do I fit in with this collective group of disabled people?”
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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‘We’re not talking about units, we’re talking about people’s lives’ – chatting supportive housing
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Report says BC child poverty rate up for first time in years
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Port Hardy set to launch situation table
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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A family doctor shares his experiences with ADHD
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Reflections from a night on the streets of Campbell River
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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‘Street feet’ impacting vulnerable people through wet winter
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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‘Turn off the tap’ – addressing homelessness prevention
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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One year after finding housing, Guelph man shares experience of homelessness
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Here with you – a mom’s journey through love, family, and addiction
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Elite youth athlete mental health
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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The Best Place
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Lawyer raises concerns over RTA changes for supportive housing
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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BC’s public drug use legislation and the courts
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Nanaimo Family Life Association to take over operating Unitarian Shelter
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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The Trauma Informed Lawyer
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Academic success to support behavioral and mental health
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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‘There is hope’ – sharing supports for people in poverty
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Exploring languages, accents, and accentism
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Are myths fostering inaction on poverty?
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Blinging in the new year in support of mental health
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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‘Everyone who’s in here is happy’ – a visit to Coco Cafe
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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ICU doctor explores the links between the opioid and housing crises
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Catching up on VIU’s first end of life doula course
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Navigating media in times of crisis
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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A new end of life guide from the BC Humanist Association
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Personal stories of addiction and treatment shared at Parksville public hearing
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Chrystal Toop’s journey to Blackbird Medicines
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Remembering Jan Coleman
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Death educator Susan Srigley on why we need more conversations about dying
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Talking mental health history with Matt Smith
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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When My Ghost Sings, Recovery following stroke and memory loss
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The Whistler Housing Authority: a model to help with Canada’s housing crisis?
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Bouncing back living with bipolar and psychosis – Victoria Maxwell’s story
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Coming together to protect ecosystems on private land
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Meaning and purpose ‘will sustain you’ – reflections on recovering from heroin addiction
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Exploring a backlash against harm reduction
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The criminal justice system on trial
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Re-Threading Madness to change the conversation around mental health
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Escaping from a rabbit hole of online grief
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Jacking out – lessons from a year offline
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Masculinity in relationships
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Responding to prejudice with poetry
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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What happened when a UBC study offered $7500 to People experiencing homelessness
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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‘The villain in this story is poverty’ – talking drug toxicity in Nanaimo
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Insights into rural and remote mental health
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Nanaimo marks International Overdose Awareness Day
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Canada’s first federal housing advocate talks housing as a human right
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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A visit to The Village
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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“I love telling stories” – Bennet Caffee on taking his experiences with bipolar to the stage
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Lucky Casanova: a legacy, on cassette!
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Exploring Canada’s housing history
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Victoria Australia’s road to acknowledging harms in the mental health care system
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Stuff, space, and dispossession while precariously housed
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Rates of Involuntary psychiatric admission on the rise in BC
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Grieving mom shares message in front of B.C. legislature after nearly 900 KM run
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Road to Recovery Initiative aims to provide blueprint to for addictions care system in BC
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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The Lived Experience of Evictions in Canada
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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The new end of life doula course coming to VIU, and the taboo around discussing death
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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‘A silent epidemic’: what you need to know about brain injury
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Cultivating abilities program growing more than just crops
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Exploring person-centered care in addictions and public health
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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A visit to Nanaimo’s drug checking site
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Substance Drug Checking
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May 29, 2023 |
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Using language to convey the sometimes hidden experience of living with chronic pain
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May 26, 2023 |
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Victoria’s new community led crisis response team
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May 25, 2023 |
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Following up with the CMHA on new emergency mental health crisis response teams
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May 25, 2023 |
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Supportive housing providers hoping to change systems and attitudes
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May 12, 2023 |
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A punk journey through mental health
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May 11, 2023 |
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Stigma felt by family members of those with serious mental health conditions
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May 08, 2023 |
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Rollerblading across Canada in support of mental health awareness
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May 02, 2023 |
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How online courses can keep student mental health in mind
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Jordan Reems is bringing his late brother’s music, and journey, to the stage
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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“The best part of recovery is that you don’t have to do it alone” – in conversation with Natalie Senik
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Why are there so few walk-in clinics in the mid island region?
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Operation Freedom Paws
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Tydel Foods: making sure low income seniors in Chilliwack don’t go hungry/The Superette – Nanaimo’s best kept secret?
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Hopping in the ocean everyday in support of people experiencing eating disorders: Swim to Eat
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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How historically accurate medieval recreations led to free hot showers for anyone in need: The Wiseland Humanitarian Association
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Inside-Out: Natasha Karod
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Inside-Out: Joey Cramer
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Inside-Out: Joanne Falvai
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Beyond Blame: helping men move past abusive behaviours
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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“The most enjoyable scholastic experience I’ve ever had” – A student perspective on VIU’s Psychedelic Assisted Therapy program
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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MDMA assisted therapy for chronic pain
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Psilocybin assisted therapy: “People think it’s all about a pill, or all about a mushroom, but it’s not”
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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“The world wants to see you succeed” – educating others about schizophrenia
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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What is the Systems Planning Organization?
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Nanaimo gathers to talk solutions to the toxic drug crisis
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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The LSD Rescue Service
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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The Transgressive Woman: gender, class, alcohol and drugs
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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“Medicinal Purposes” – pharmacists and liquor in Victorian Canada
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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“For me to survive meant I had to get old fast.” Author Eric Walters on getting personal in The King of Jam Sandwiches
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Building better: person centred solutions in the housing crisis
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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“Embracing the non traditional” – TikTok and alcohol advertising
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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TikTok and public health: the big questions
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Coming together to find ways to support tenants with vulnerabilities
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Eating Disorders: “as diverse as the people they affect”
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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MySafe Society – a safer supply pilot project explained
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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“The long term economic outlook depends on bringing everybody along”: why one of Canada’s big banks put out a report calling for more social housing
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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The benefits of some daily stress
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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NANDU nuisance designation: In conversation with Sara Edmondson
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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NANDU nuisance designation – in conversation with Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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AHMA discusses the new 500 million dollar fund for BC non-profits to buy exisiting housing
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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In conversation with the Executive Director of the BCCSU
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Recovery Capital
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Sending a health and social response to health and social emergencies: Peer Assisted Care Teams
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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An update on the first psychedelic assisted therapy cohort at an accredited Canadian University
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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What to know about panic attacks and panic disorder
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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How Canada defines poverty: the Market Basket Measure
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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A visit to Boundary Supportive Housing
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Sheila Malcolmson discusses her new portfolio of Social Development and Poverty Reduction
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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A new supervised consumption site, and the potential impact on NANDU
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Blood Tribe’s day treatment program takes home award for innovation in mental health care
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Housing and health for older LGBT Canadians
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Checking in on Canada’s housing strategy
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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KIDTHINK wins award for innovation in mental health care
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Displacement City
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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En Francais – T’as ta place et des jeunes proches aidantes
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Soldiers In The Arts – Confronting post traumatic stress through improv
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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“Just the beginning of a conversation,” Cherokee Bent on receiving BC’s Award for Innovation in Mental Health and Addictions Care
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Taloyoak’s CWC Mary Ugyuk Sutherland wins Nunavut’s award for Innovation in Mental Health and Addictions Care
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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“We’re treating beer with beer” – The St. John’s Status of Women Council’s Managed Alcohol Program
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Care for the caregiver: bringing low barrier ACT to those caring for people with dementia in New Brunswick
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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A Mentally Safe Minecraft Server for youth in Saskatchewan
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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“Born out of a community identified need,” Supporting Wellbeing connects land based programming with tailored mental health training
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Narratives around work and mental health
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Work, loneliness, and burnout
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Let’s Talk Housing – BC Housing’s podcast creating conversations on the affordability and homelessness crises
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Tsqelmucwilc: we return to being human again – sharing the stories of survivors of the Kamloops Indian Residential School
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Our Anxiety Stories
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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From John Howard to Connective – a new name for a Nanaimo non-profit
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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A full day workshop to combat ‘sex trafficking in our backyard’
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Symptoms of anxiety and depression up, sleep, substance use down according to New Brunswick student wellness survey
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Brain Gremlins – Alina Pete illustrates their experience with obsessive compulsive disorder
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Labyrinths of the Mind – graphic novels and mental health
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Free Hot Dog Day
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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The Journey of the Starblanket Storyteller
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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How we build housing vs. how much housing we build
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Driving rats, Saskatoon raccoons, and our own brains
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Harm reduction avoidance in year one of Covid – Vancouver and other cities in NA
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Excerpts from International Overdose Awareness Day in Nanaimo
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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More than 2200 Hectares of territorial land transferred to the Wei Wai Kum First Nation
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Mental health difficulties within psychology
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Bringing together private property owners to protect and preserve the ecosystem
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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The SABE Peace Walkers – Community safety rooted in Indigenous teachings
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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Nanaimo’s new Community Safety Officers
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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En Francais: La chaleur, la violence, et le baseball
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Nanaimo’s 7-10 Club Society still searching for a home, providing meals to go
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Take a Hike! An alternative, outdoor oriented education program for vulnerable youth
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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Providing firsthand perspective through The Homeless Idea Podcast
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Fighting back against eco-anxiety
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Remembering Dave
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Nanaimo’s affordable housing strategy
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Suzette Shaw talks tokenism in work against poverty and homelessness
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Tackling myths about homelessness to tens of thousands on TikTok
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Exploring transgender creativity and mental health
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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Getting to tomorrow – Nanaimo discusses solutions to the drug poisoning crisis
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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When MPs lose their jobs
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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‘Game jams’ to support addiction recovery
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Digital health and play in healthcare
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Therapy to go: mental health care apps
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Housing co-ops, what they are and how they’re doing
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Overcoming anxiety to stand up for the Fairview Forest
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Taken Away By The Green Butterfly – A Critical Autobiographical Narrative Study of Shock Therapy
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Buddy Up: How to start and continue real conversations with pals you might be worried about
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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New Infinity – Navigating ‘a labyrinth of closing doors’
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Surviving Opioids – And turning the experience into a game to educate others
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May 28, 2022 |
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Basic income in Canada: addressing costs and common concerns
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May 26, 2022 |
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Food Prescriptions: What we need to keep in mind about a new dish on the medical menu
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May 24, 2022 |
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Tower 25 – A personal story of homelessness, addiction, trauma, and recovery
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May 21, 2022 |
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Stigma Free Society
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May 18, 2022 |
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Following up with the DULF about Health Canada’s rejection letter
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May 15, 2022 |
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Reducing the stigma around dementia
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May 12, 2022 |
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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau on mental health and empathy
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May 07, 2022 |
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Affordable housing (and housing affordability) in New Brunswick
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May 06, 2022 |
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A response to the UBCM: municipalities and housing supply
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May 05, 2022 |
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The UBCM on housing
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May 05, 2022 |
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Hoarding: What it is, how to help, and myths and misconceptions
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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A Visit to Project Rise
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Penny Gurstein on housing affordability
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Rent Banks and how they keep people housed
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Our thoughts and mental states
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Towards a cultural shift in sport
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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A new cannabis and mental health course for youth
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Music Therapy
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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The Drug User Liberation Front
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Minister Sheila Malcolmson on Complex Care
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Reconciliation Social Work
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Mental health in agriculture and free access to counselling for producers in BC
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Caretoons: anxiety and a time travelling pizza
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Older Adults Eating Well Together
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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The WHO looks into evidence on the pandemic and mental health
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Mental Health First Aid
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Mental Illness in the Family: Sibling Experiences
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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“Not the Person I Used to Know” – A Study of Caregiving to Older Adults with Depression
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Mallory Woods on turning the challenges they faced growing up into a passion for supporting youth mental health
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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The Aboriginal Housing Management Association’s British Columbia Urban, Rural, and Northern Indigenous Housing Strategy
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Dr. Shannon Dames on Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Former paramedic Jeff Smith on PTSD and a new non profit to help first responders
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Author and pain patient Carlyn Zwarenstein on matters of substance
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Proposals for decriminalization of illicit drug use
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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BC’s Chief Coroner on illicit drug toxicity related deaths in the province
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Moving from GDP to a well being economy
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Head Impacts in Canadian Varsity Football
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Nanaimo city councillor Erin Hemmens on the city’s role in and efforts towards addressing homelessness
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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14 years, 724 episodes. People First Radio producer and presenter Kevin Midbo steps into retirement
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Bell Let’s Talk: A Catalyst for Support and Self Disclosure, or Corporate Greed?
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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‘Finding The Right Door to knock on’ – Accessing mental health care support in BC
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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Curiosity rather than judgment – Lois Peterson on her book Shelter, and her perspective on homelessness
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Feb 04, 2022 |