“I grew up in what was originally a miner’s house on Jingle Pot Road, across the street from the Miners Park subdivision where, in the 1980’s, I delivered newspapers on Coal Tyee Trail and Black Diamond Drive”
Black Diamond Dust is a multi-site art exhibition which considers the coal mining industry that Nanaimo was built upon, an industry that both formed and fragmented communities through economic development, racial segregation and labour inequity, and served as the foundation of global industrialization. It runs until December 13, 2014.
If the extent of human suffering were used to decide which diseases deserve the most medical attention, then depression would be near the top of the list. More than 350 million people are affected by depression, making it one of the most common disorders in the world. It is the biggest cause of disability, and as many as two-thirds of those who commit suicide have the condition.
