Prescription Drug Drop-Off day helps people get rid of outdated, unused prescriptions If you have some old, unwanted prescriptions in your medicine chest that you’ve been wanting to get rid of, the RCMP and Canadian pharmacists remind you of a way to dispose of those unwanted prescription drugs. This Saturday is national Prescription Drug Drop-off [...]
By David Suzuki The David Suzuki Foundation is launching the 30×30 Nature Challenge today — a national campaign to get Canadians outside for 30 minutes a day for 30 days during May. “I urge Canadians to join the 30×30 Nature Challenge,” said David Suzuki, award-winning broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. “Commit [...]
Organ donation patient living full life, refuses to miss out on anything Darvy Culleton was 30 years old when he received the best Christmas gift ever in his life at the Vancouver General Hospital. “It was a double lung transplant,” Darvy says. “I was in pretty rough shape before that – my life was brutal.” [...]
Cst. Tad Milmine speaks in honour of Jamie Hubley, a 15-year old boy who killed himself because he was bullied Cst. Tad Milmine of the North Vancouver RCMP spoke with a group of North Van high school students recently, and offered a personal anti-bullying message to the 550 grade 10 and 11 students at Handsworth [...]
Iceland app makes use of information from Book of Icelanders You meet someone, there’s chemistry, and then come the introductory questions: What’s your name? Come here often? Are you my cousin? In Iceland, a country with a population of 320,000 where most everyone is distantly related, inadvertently kissing cousins is a real risk. A new smartphone [...]
With construction wrapped up at the end of 2007, Skelhp House’s first house party was the next task We wanted to build with local materials, and with people who knew how to assemble them with the same love of task that went into the architecture of Skelhp House. It made sense to look for a [...]
With construction wrapped up at the end of 2007, Skelhp House’s first house party was the next task We wanted to build with local materials, and with people who knew how to assemble them with the same love of task that went into the architecture of Skelhp House. It made sense to look for a [...]
Easter tradition evolves as children grow By Kelly McKenzie It’s my late husband’s fault. Little did he know that his two simple trails would blossom into a 20-year Easter tradition between the two families. On the morning of the first occurrence, I awoke to a sunlit bedroom and the sensation of John falling into [...]
BC seniors can expect new locations in First Nations communities as well The United Way’s Better at Home program is adding 38 new locations to its network, more than tripling its size in a move that will help BC’s seniors. Expansion will take Better at Home to some remote locations including several in First Nations [...]
Anti-bullying app makers claim to have prevented 11 suicides Beacon Staff Reporter A new smartphone anti-bullying app called TipSoft has found a user-friendly, confidential way for students to provide information to authorities regarding bullying, drugs, weapons, potential suicides, and other issues at school. The TipSoft app allows administrators to easily manage incidents in a single cloud-based application. Some [...]