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Town Talk: Luncheon generates $700,000 for pancreatic cancer clinic

September 27, 2019 admin bc cancer agency, Books, Cancer, cannabis, cannabis innovation, cannabis small business, canuck place, family & child, local arts, local business, local health, local news, medicine matters, music

Credit to Author: Malcolm Parry| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:00:20 +0000

The recent sixth-annual Hope Couture luncheon reportedly raised more than $700,000 to help the B.C. Cancer Foundation fund a pancreatic cancer rapid-access clinic.

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Travel for childbirth 'terrifying and traumatic' for Bella Coola moms

September 16, 2019 admin family & child, local health, local news, Pregnancy, vancouver coastal health, Williams Lake, Women, women's issues

Credit to Author: Denise Ryan| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 01:21:45 +0000

Since 2008, when Vancouver Coastal Health cut maternity services at Bella Coola General Hospital, pregnant women in the community must travel to Williams Lake a month before their due date.

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Vaping more popular than ever with B.C. teens despite medical horror stories

September 13, 2019 admin education issues, family & child, HEALTH, local news

Credit to Author: Randy Shore| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:55:57 +0000

One B.C. study found that the number of junior high school students who tried vaping increased by 50 per cent last year

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Town Talk: Netherlands dance troupe lures Ballet B.C.'s Emily Molnar

September 6, 2019 admin Celebrity, family & child, fashion & beauty, Festivals, local arts, local business, local health, movies, music, Parenting, Theatre

Credit to Author: Malcolm Parry| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:00:03 +0000

GOING DUTCH: Last year, Netherlands native Otto Tausk succeeded British-born Bramwell Tovey as Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s music director. Then, as what the Dutch might call tit voor tat, Nederlands Dans Theater snagged Regina-born Ballet B.C.’s artistic director, Emily Molnar, to lead its 27- and 18-dancer companies. Former Ballet B.C. dancer Molnar has steered the once-moribund […]

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Back-to-school is big business for B.C.'s lice busters

August 30, 2019 admin British Columbia, Chilliwack, education, education issues, family & child, fashion & beauty, HEALTH, local health, local news, Parenting, vancouver

Credit to Author: Glenda Luymes| Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 00:38:34 +0000

Who you gonna call when your kid comes home with lice?

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Daphne Bramham: B.C. addictions minister targets province's 'wild, wild West' recovery houses

August 23, 2019 admin addiction, b.c. coroners service, BC, BC government, British Columbia, columnists, Drugs, family & child, fentanyl, HEALTH, local health, local news, overdose, politics

Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 00:53:54 +0000

Opinion: This week the province took the first steps toward bringing some order to the chaos and overturning years of neglect

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Daphne Bramham: Child-abducting mom thrives in Japan as exec at Danish multinational

August 16, 2019 admin Canada, children, columnists, Crime, family & child, Japan, Kidnapping, local news, men, national, parent traps, Parenting, police, politics, relationships, Women, World

Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 23:00:31 +0000

OPINION: Chie Kawabata is now v-p of a large Danish pharmaceutical firm’s Tokyo office. Does the company have a responsibility to protect the child? Apparently not.

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Panel calls for better suicide prevention services for youth in B.C.

August 15, 2019 admin family & child, local news

Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:33:36 +0000

The panel reviewed 111 suicides between Jan. 1, 2013, and June 30, 2018

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Daphne Bramham: Labyrinthine path to addiction recovery needs a fix

August 13, 2019 admin addiction, BC government, british columbia politics, columnists, Crime, Drugs, family & child, fentanyl, fraser health, HEALTH, local news, men, national, overdose, politics, Women

Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 22:58:59 +0000

OPINION: It’s an indication of how dysfunctional B.C.’s treatment system is that funding for one girl’s recovery only materialized after her story was on the front page.