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You can’t make gingerbread with only ginger. A New Year’s resolution based on willpower alone is a like a single ingredient cake recipe — not very tasty. To create lasting change that transforms your...
Today I received an extraordinary email from Canucks fan Ward Grant. In case you missed seeing him interviewed on TV, Ward is the man who started Vancouver’s “Wall of Hope” – after feeling so angry...
It’s project go time. The girls of Emerald and Asperity units in the Burnaby Youth Custody Center (BYCC) have created community projects and the projects have turned into innovative initiatives....
Once a week I run a program out of the youth custody centre in Burnaby. I work with a group of girls who experience a wide range of life challenges; most of these challenges relate to some form...
When is enough really enough? Three young women under 22 years of age, three different cities in the Lower Mainland, less than a month apart and all casualties of extreme violence. What is happening...
Prompted by the mysterious illness his family kept dying from, an intellectual skeptic investigates alternative healing and finds it isn't the nonsense mainstream media keeps claiming it to be.