Doerthe Keilholz and Lucy Gotell report on the l ack of training initiatives upsets queer elderly community in Vancouver. Last year, Jeanette Piry lost the love of her life. She met Grace in 1956 in Hong Kong, when it was still a British colony. In the early 1970’s, the couple moved to Canada, fearing that [...]
The South Asian community is going through a cultural shift in Canada. Torn between east and west cultures, the community struggles to take care of elderly relatives at home. But an assisted care centre in Surrey is redefining traditions. More and more South Asians are opening to the idea of putting elderly relatives in this [...]
By Melanie Kuxdorf and Amy Juschka Trail B.C. is a sleepy town in the West Kootenays with an unusual claim to fame: it’s leading the battle against carbon emissions, committing to become carbon neutral by 2012.
By Ian Bickis Leigh Fox has been planting trees for eight years, in part to raise cash, in part to save the world. Like many young Canadians, he planted his way through his undergraduate degree in political science. And like many Canadians, he has traveled abroad, having done development work in Asia and Africa. When [...]
Thirteen percent of Surrey’s homeless population is under the age of eighteen. One of these is fourteen-year-old Robert Davidson, who is struggling to find shelter and stability amidst the violence of the streets in the Lower Mainland. Video produced and directed by Trevor D’Arcy, Dan Haves and Blake Sifton
By Amy Hadley. Thirty per cent of B.C.’s obstetricians are expected to retire in the next five years, says a national medical association spokesperson. Nancy Bickford, a representative of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, said she is concerned. “You don’t want to take maternity care for granted.” The latest figures indicate that [...]
By Fram Dinshaw Just when things seemed to have quietened down along the Canada Line construction corridor, businesses and residents are protesting increasing noise pollution caused by the constant drilling. Accustomed to the traffic congestion, new complaints relating to building the new transit line from Vancouver International Airport to Downtown indicate that the noise is [...]
By Amanda Stutt. Robert Weppler almost lost his life to heroin and alcohol addiction. As a former addict, he moved to Vancouver from his native Ontario because of the city’s reputation for cheap and easily accessible drugs. “The purity is up and the cost is down. In Vancouver, 100 milligrams of heroin costs $10 as [...]
Two out of five people who died of HIV/AIDS in BC between 1997 and 2005 didn’t access free health care that was available to them. For residents of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, where the rate of infection is highest, homelessness, addiction, poverty, mental health and a lack of counseling services, are continued barriers to sustainable [...]
By Cynthia Yoo By creating a carbon tax, British Columbia may have betrayed its poor in order to seed environmental change, say activists. The tax, announced in February as a means to reduce carbon emissions, was touted by the provincial Liberal government as “entirely revenue neutral.” This attempt to shift the tax burden looks progressive [...]
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