Cheyenne Johnson, executive director of the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, discusses the Road To Recovery Initiative set to roll out at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.

This spring, new research into the lived experience of evictions in Canada was released. Commissioned by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, it was the largest study of its kind ever done in the country. People First Radio spoke with lead author David Wachsmuth, Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance, and Associate Professor of Urban […]

Carmen Lavoie had been interested in the end of life process for a while. But the social work professor at Vancouver Island University says it was her own cancer diagnosis that really made things come into focus. Now, Lavoie is getting set to launch a new end of life doula Course this fall. On top […]

Kix Citton, executive director of the Nanaimo Brain Injury Society discusses aspects of brain injury in the community which may fly under the radar.  

The Cultivating Abilities Program from the Nanaimo Foodshare is well underway. It’s a 19 week program for people who self identify as having a disability (diverse ability). Participants are trained in agriculture, the food industry, and employability skills. People First Radio’s Joe Pugh paid a visit to the Five Acres Farm in Harewood to learn […]

In conversation with Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes, Canada Research Chair in Person-Centered Care in Addictions and Public Health, and a professor at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.

Patrick Cools, drug checking technician, and Destiny Herman, operations coordinator, both with the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Mid Island Branch, talk drug checking in Nanaimo. The service is offered at the CMHA’s overdose prevention site on 250 Albert St.

Piotr Burek, research assistant and graduate student with Substance Drug Checking in Victoria, discusses what can drug checking tell us, what its limitations are at the moment, and what are we seeing in the drug supply right now.  

In her new memoir Chronic Conditions, University of Windsor professor Karen Engle wanted to explore using language to “capture what it’s like to be in a body that appears to work from the outside, when its internal systems operate through an ad hoc assemblage of garbled messaging, reroutings, and shaky foundations.” Engle has been dealing […]

Victoria has a new community led crisis response team. It started a gradual rollout earlier this year, and is designed to respond to mental health emergencies in the community avoiding police involvement wherever possible. It’s being operated by AVI Health Services. Dreanna Picard, an experiential crisis response worker with the team, and Lacey Mesley, its […]