Dying, caregiving and grieving are three of life’s greatest challenges, and the Community Hospice is ready to help
Nanaimo Community Hospice has been serving the community for over 30 years, and was Canada’s first community-based nonprofit charitable Hospice. The organization believes that the dying should experience dignity and peace, their caregivers should get the help they need, and their friends and family should be supported in their grief. (more…)
A new book capturing the images of some of the west coast’s most admired authors and poets has been launched
A new book called 111 West Coast Literary Portraits features rare portraits of emerging, mid-career and well-known writers who have lived in British Columbia, accompanied by excerpts of their writing. Photographers Barry Peterson and Blaise Enright began photographing writers in 1998, travelling the Coast and Gulf Islands seeking the famous and infamous. They took pictures of writers in their personal spaces, intimate portraits of B.C.’s best, most honoured, as well as emerging, literary talent. (more…)
If you’d like to invite Eric Harper to bring his award-winning music into your home, you can join his house concert tour
Award-winning guitarist Eric Harper has plans for 2013—and you could be a part of those plans. He says: “I’d love to do a House Concert Tour but I’m in need of House Concert hosts. Basically, someone who’s willing to host a concert in their living room just for the sake of having live music in their home. If you, or anyone you know, would be interested in hosting a House Concert* please let me know. I want to start the tour in January 2013. But all the planning has to start now.” (more…)
Author and educator Jackson Katz advocates the ‘bystander approach’ to sexual and domestic violence prevention
Jackson Katz is a social theorist, educator, and anti-sexism activist who says that gendered understandings and behaviour are heavily influenced by media and popular culture. Katz is a major advocate of the ‘bystander approach’ to gender violence and bullying prevention. (more…)
Stories and reflections encourage and support readers in living vibrantly through wholeheartedly embracing life’s challenges
Gail Boulanger is a coach and counselor for “vibrant living” in Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island. She says that vibrant living infuses our lives with energy and enthusiasm just as sun infuses the day with light and warmth. But Gail also says that vibrant living rests on a foundation of healthy grieving. (more…)
The City of Nanaimo has had emails and Facebook posts with concerns about supportive housing projects studied and summarized
The planning for social housing in Nanaimo—as in cities and towns in many parts of Canada—has been accompanied by concerns from neighbours in areas where the facilities will be built. NIMBYism is common, but so are fears (whether real or not) about what impacts social housing projects might have on neighbourhoods. (more…)
