Kerri Isham of Power Up Education speaks about an upcoming full day workshop exploring the issue of sex trafficking on Vancouver Island.

The New Brunswick Health Council, along with the Government of New Brunswick’s Department of Health and Education & Early Childhood Development released the results of the most recent student wellness survey. It was completed by more than 40 000 students from grades 6 through 12, which is more than 75 percent of the eligible population. […]

Alina Pete is a cartoonist from the Little Pine First Nation in Saskatchewan. Their short graphic novel Brain Gremlins chronicles their experience with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Brain Gremlins appears in Through The Labyrinths of the Mind, a graphic novel anthology dedicated to mental health. It was released earlier this year by Vancouver publisher Cloudscape Comics […]

Seeing a superhero dealing with schizophrenia inspired writer Bevan Thomas to create a new project. He and publisher Cloudscape Comics brought together a group of 11 artists, each of whom would explore their own experiences with mental health and mental illness in a graphic novel anthology called Through The Labyrinths of the Mind. In addition […]

Stanley Q Woodvine wanted to bring back a lost tradition to the recycling depot he uses – Free Hot Dog Day. First though, he needed to find a Barbecue. Woodvine has been without a home since 2004. He maintains a blog and has a sizable twitter following, and for a number of years excerpts from […]

Joseph Kakwinokanasum is a Cree-Austrian storyteller and writer from the James Smith Cree Reserve.  He also goes by the moniker Starblanket Storyteller. Kakwinokanasum is preparing for the release of his first novel, My Indian Summer, which comes out later this September. It’s a journey decades in the making. The Starblanket Storyteller spoke to People First […]

When talking about housing affordability, a lot of conversations centre on the issue of supply. Yushu Zhu of Simon Fraser University thinks that we need to focus on How we build housing, rather than just how much housing we build. Zhu argues that the way we analyze dwellings can be too focused on economics, and […]

Scientists often use animals to help us learn about ourselves. One important thing to keep in mind when studying lab rats, is, well the fact that they’re in a lab – and not their natural environment. What’s the impact of that? Kelly Lambert is a professor of Behavioural neuroscience at the University of Richmond, and […]

M-J Milloy is a research scientist at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and an epidemiologist by training. He was part of a team that did research into how and whether drug users avoided harm reduction measures during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. The researchers compared results across a number of North […]

Excerpts from Nanaimo’s event to mark International Overdose Awareness Day, held in Maffeo Sutton Park August 31 2022. Speakers include Sarah Lovegrove, MP Lisa Marie Barron, MLA Sheila Malcolmson, Lenae Silva, and Aimee Chalifoux.