Category: News
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Could you survive on $18 of food for a week?, asks Welfare Food Challenge
By: Sam Smith For Metro Published on Mon Oct 24 2016 If there was one lesson for volunteers who participated in the Welfare Food Challenge — a week-long annual experiment which officially ended Sunday — it’s that living off of $18 for a week’s supply of food is not, well, fair. “$18 a week is…
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Bella Bella diesel spill containment ‘far from world class’: Heiltsuk Chief
By: Sam Smith For Metro Published on Sun Oct 23 2016 Eleven days after the sinking of the tugboat Nathan E. Stewart — spilling an unknown amount of its stored 220,000 litres of diesel fuel into sensitive waters 20 km west of Bella Bella, B.C. — nearby Heiltsuk Nation decried that the small community is…
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B.C. woman fights for ‘constitutional right’ for legal representation in Mental Health Act detention
By Sam Smith for Metro News A B.C. woman who was involuntarily detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act for more than a month has challenged the B.C. Supreme Court to help secure her legal aid in time for her Mental Health Review Board hearing on August 23, otherwise she potentially faces several more…
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