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 […]

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 […]

A 500 million dollar fund is being made available for non profits in British Columbia to purchase existing housing. The fund is going to be managed and distributed through a non profit society created by the Aboriginal Housing Management Association (AHMA),the BC Non-Profit Housing Association‘ (BCNPHA), and the Co-operative Housing Federation of BC (CHF BC). […]

The BC Centre on Substance Use was established in 2017. It has a mandate to develop, help implement, and evaluate evidence-based approaches to substance use and addiction. Since 2016, British Columbia has been in a public health emergency due to deaths from illicit drug toxicity. Cheyenne Johnson, Executive Director of the BC Centre on Substance […]

Giuseppe Ganci of The Last Door Society discusses the concept of recovery capital and shares his perspective on the current state of addiction treatment options in BC.