ACT teams of police, social workers and health experts have trimmed hospital visits and jail time for the mentally ill
As B.C.’s mayors called on the province to reopen long-term residential beds for the most severely addicted and mentally ill, those behind an innovative policing and health care model in Victoria and Vancouver say their approach could be copied by other communities. Read the rest of this article at The Vancouver Sun…
Nanaimo filmmaker Paul Manly has been visiting communities and hearing from individuals affected by mining projects in El Salvador and the tactics of Investor State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) used by mining companies
On September 10, 2014, dozens of organizations from Canada, El Salvador and around the world confronted Canadian-Australian mining company Oceana Gold, whose subsidiary is suing the nation of El Salvador for $301 million (USD). El Salvador’s offence was refusing to a grant a permit to a gold mine that would contaminate 60 per cent of the population’s drinking water.
The Council of Canadians, the Latin American Solidarity Network, the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network and others planned to descend on the company’s Toronto headquarters to present a letter from people affected by the decision. The letter demands that the company withdraw the lawsuit.
B.C. New Democrats say citizens living near the Mount Polley disaster are facing fall rains and winter setting in without even knowing what the plans are for the massive cleanup effort that is needed
“The scale is hard to imagine,” wrote Peter Moskowitz at Vice.com, “…gray sludge, several feet deep, gushing with the force of a fire hose through streams and forest—coating everything in its path with ashy gunk. What happened on [August 4, 2014] might have been one of North America’s worst environmental disasters in decades, yet the news barely made it past the Canadian border.”
A breach in the Mount Polley mine tailings dam released water and mine tailings into pristine Quesnel Lake. The spill has been called one of the biggest environmental disasters in modern Canadian history. But now, it seems, just over a month later, that news about Mount Polley is barely making it to British Columbians, let alone any farther.
The HeroWork Society helps non-profits renovate community infrastructure at a fraction of the normal cost and time—with modern-day versions of an old-fashioned barn-raising
When Victoria’s Threshold Housing Society received the donation of a $725,000 four-unit apartment building to help house homeless youth, they turned to renovations phenom Paul Latour and his ground-breaking HeroWork initiative for help. The building, located on Davie Street in the South Jubilee neighbourhood, could house up to 8 youth, but needed to be brought up to code, furnished and made user-ready.
Victoria’s Our Place expands hours, add programs for homeless, poor http://t.co/hSC2hqgepB pic.twitter.com/lyhCytEIIb
— peoplefirstradio (@peoplefirstrad) September 21, 2014
Work in progress: Saskatoon man sheds former life of drugs, gangs and violence http://t.co/a5pLesi8sJ pic.twitter.com/HbUbP7qpp4
— peoplefirstradio (@peoplefirstrad) September 20, 2014
