… wimpier spotted owl cousins. The other fake news protest was a more serious matter. An outfit calling itself the B.C. Health Coalition brought two “survivors” of blood transfusions to warn of the danger posed by a “pay-for-plasma” company that wants …
Category: New Westminster, BC
Woman with disability blames lack of home care on B.C. health authority funding inequities
Barbara Yost has multiple sclerosis and says the 84 hours a month of home-support services that she gets amounts to “minimal care”. A woman confined to a wheelchair, in New Westminster, B.C., blames the provincial health authority’s funding formula for a lack of home-care services in the Fraser Health Authority .
Difference Makers: Building self-esteem and changing lives, one…
The idea that a new hairstyle or a foot rub could be life-changing might seem farfetched, but for the founder of a local organization that provides free makeovers and self-care services to people living in poverty, these simple acts have gone on to make big impacts. Caroline MacGillivray is the founder and executive director of Beauty Night , a Vancouver-based organization that she started 16 years ago, after a chance encounter with a woman she met while volunteering at a Downtown Eastside drop-in centre.
Longtime opioid users motivated by fear of withdrawal
John Lenec remembers the song “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” going through his head moments after he slipped off a detox centre bed and began convulsing on the floor. It had been six hours since his last hit of heroin.