In The King of Jam Sandwiches, author Eric Walters gets personal. The story follows 13 year old Robbie, but it’s heavily informed by Walters’ own childhood. It deals with themes like mental illness, poverty, and foster care, and won the Governor General’s Literary Award for young people’s literature in 2020. Walters, a Member of the […]

If you’re on a low income, and have been living in the same building for years, what happens to you if that building gets torn as part of a new development? It’s a question Brian Doucet has been trying to answer. Doucet is the Canada Research Chair in Urban Change and Social Inclusion, and an […]

Because TikTok has so many younger users, alcohol companies aren’t allowed to advertise on it. But as Dr. Jessamy Bagenal recently wrote in British medical journal The Lancet, there are a number of non-traditional ways that liquor could be being promoted to youth on TikTok. She spoke with People First Radio to share what these […]

"We all have a role in calling for accountability from platforms"

Earlier this year a group of tenants got together at Nanaimo’s Mount Benson Legion Branch for a mini town hall event. The goal was to come up with community based solutions, for ways to better support tenants who are vulnerable because of age, income, or disability. The meeting was organised by local media outlet The […]

In conversation with Ary Maharaj of the National Eating Disorder Information Centre(NEDIC). More information about can be found on NEDIC’s website, https://nedic.ca/

MySafe Society is one of several safer supply pilot projects in British Columbia. It provides around 130 people in the province with a prescription supply of Dilaudid – hydromorphone tablets that are taken orally. Dilaudid is an opioid that is sometimes used to treat pain. The prescriptions are intended to allow people who had been […]

Rebekah Young, Head of Inclusion and Resilience Economics at Scotiabank, discusses a recent column in which she called on Canada to double its social housing stock.

"Having some stress in your day also means that you're having more interactions with humans, and that there's also more positive events with other humans, and that good things happen"

On January 16, Nanaimo City Council declared the overdose prevention site on 264 Nicol Street a nuisance property after receiving a report from city staff detailing social disorder surrounding the site. The site is run by the Nanaimo Area Network of Drug Users (NANDU), and the designation means that the city can impose cost recovery […]