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Venerable Sik Yin Kit on end of life care: Our #1 most-listened-to PFR podcast in 2017

November 30th, 2017 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Venerable Sik Yin Kit on end of life care: Our #1 most-listened-to PFR podcast in 2017)

Carlyn Zwarenstein on pain and opioids: Our #2 most-listened-to PFR podcast in 2017

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Looking for action to change British Columbia’s child poverty story

November 22nd, 2017 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Looking for action to change British Columbia’s child poverty story)

people first media mixcloud“Poverty negatively affects children’s physical, emotional and social development. We need to look after our most vulnerable: no child in BC should be limited because of poverty.”

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Police chief: “I want you to do whatever it takes so that you are well”

November 21st, 2017 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Police chief: “I want you to do whatever it takes so that you are well”)

abbotsford police mental healthMental-health advocates are praising a British Columbia police chief for his leadership after he made an impassioned plea for first responders to take care of their mental well-being

Abbotsford Police Chief Bob Rich made his comments toward the end of a 25-minute speech on Sunday at a ceremony honouring Constable John Davidson. The Abbotsford traffic officer had been responding to a report of a stolen car two weeks ago when he was killed in a daytime shootout that has numbed the Fraser Valley community and drawn the province’s first responders together in mourning.  Read the rest of this article at The Globe and Mail…

Image: DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS

16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence begins November 25th

November 20th, 2017 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence begins November 25th)

people first media mixcloudThe 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign begins on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women November 25th and ends on International Human Rights Day December 10th

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