Tulani Ackerman’s cross-B.C. trek nears a destination point, but will Victoria listen?
On July 1st, 2010, the StEps movement hit the road to walk and bike throughout British Columbia in an effort to gather stories and ideas about challenges faced by the provincial education system. The goal is to promote communication between students, parents, teachers, administrators, community members, and the provincial government. We first spoke with Prince Rupert teacher Tulani Ackerman, who founded StEps for Students, on July 1st, the day she began her cross-B.C. travel. (more…)
Can one person make a difference? When we write a cheque to a charity or volunteer at a food bank, we’re part of the solution—aren’t we? Author Lawrence Scanlan went looking for answers to those questions. He selected twelve different charitable organizations and spent a month in each, and what he discovered during his year-long odyssey was the new face of philanthropy—its players, its politics, its undeniable satisfactions and its fundamental perils. 
Nanaimo has an abundance of fruit, nuts and vegetables growing in backyards and farmers fields throughout the region. Often gardeners and farmers grow more than they can use or share and the surplus goes to waste. Nanaimo Community Gardens’ gleaning program works to help respond to hunger and poverty in the community by coordinating gleaning efforts to share food that would otherwise go unused. But 
AIDS 2010, the international conference on HIV/AIDS occurring this week in Vienna, Austria, highlights the critical connection between human rights and HIV, a dialogue begun in earnest during a similar conference in Mexico City in 2008. The conference also coincides with a major international push for expanded access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. 
Recent research has found that the practice of hatha yoga has had a positive impact on the psychological health of women who have survived breast cancer. 