In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction takes a panoramic yet highly intimate look at the widespread and perplexing human ailment of addiction
Dying With Dignity: Expanding end-of-life choices
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A 2012 Angus Reid poll showed that 80% of Canadians support the right of terminally ill patients to have medical assistance to die. Similarly, an Environics Institute poll released December 2013 found Quebec residents are more likely than other Canadians to support medically assisted death. The poll found that nearly four in five Quebec residents said they approved of allowing a terminally ill or severely disabled person to end their life.
Dying with Dignity Canada (DWD) is a Canadian organization devoted to improving quality of dying and expanding end-of-life choices for all Canadians.
Trixie Hennessey: BC’s eating disorders awareness week
January 29th, 2014 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Trixie Hennessey: BC’s eating disorders awareness week)The beginning of February marks the start of the Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness (PEDAW) campaign. On this week’s People First Radio broadcast on January 30,2014, we feature interviews with people from different aspects of this important work.
Trixie Hennessey is the program coordinator of the Woodstone Residence, a residential treatment program for young women, located on Galiano Island.
She will tell us about their history and programs.
Deborah Grimm: BC’s eating disorders awareness week
January 29th, 2014 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Deborah Grimm: BC’s eating disorders awareness week)The beginning of February marks the start of the Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness (PEDAW) campaign. On this week’s People First Radio broadcast on January 30,2014, we feature interviews with people from different aspects of this important work.
Deborah Grimm is one of the founders of the Looking Glass Foundation, which will be holding its tenth anniversary gala this year.
From a small group of parents of children with eating disorders to an effective fundraiser, educator and provider of residential treatment, Deborah chronicles the history of the Looking Glass Foundation. http://lookingglassbc.ca/
Blake Woodside: BC’s eating disorders awareness week
January 29th, 2014 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Blake Woodside: BC’s eating disorders awareness week)The beginning of February marks the start of the Provincial Eating Disorders Awareness (PEDAW) campaign. On this week’s People First Radio broadcast on January 30,2014, we feature interviews with people from different aspects of this important work.
Blake Woodside M.D is the director of the inpatient eating disorders program at the Toronto General Hospital and professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
His specialty is the treatment of eating disorders in adults and his research covers a wide range of topics related to eating disorders.
AIDS Vancouver Island shares its stories to break stigma
November 26th, 2013 | Posted by in uncategorized - (Comments Off on AIDS Vancouver Island shares its stories to break stigma)HIV and AIDS have been with us for thirty years but stigma and its effects continue to create harm
VICTORIA, BC—While this year’s UNAIDS World AIDS Day theme, ‘Getting to Zero’, aims to achieve zero new HIV infections and zero AIDS deaths, it is the goal of getting to zero stigma that is often hardest to attain. Advancements in treatment and broader access to testing have made the first two ‘zero’ goals within reach on Vancouver Island. However, for a coalition of storytellers who are living with HIV in the capital region, stigma remains a harmful and dominant force. (more…)
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