loriculbert
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Journalist, mother, volunteer, cyclist, skier, hockey fan, wine sipper. Author of articles on disadvantaged kids & vulnerable women.
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I've written many stories about the toxic drug crisis, & they were all tragic, but this one was the hardest. I knew Sidney & her family. What happened to her is so wrong. If you have a child in university or college, you should read this & push for change.
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BREAKING: Squamish Nation announces longterm plans to develop 350 acres in North Van, West Van, Squamish & Sunshine Coast, saying its high-density Sen̓áḵw project at Kits Point is "just the beginning" of housing & industrial plans for their lands.
#VanRE
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Breaking: The
#COVID19
outbreak at Lynn Valley Care Home has been declared over. It was the first care home hit by the virus in Canada and the first COVID death in Canada occurred there March 8. It has now had no new cases for 28 days.
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NEW: In response to our story on the failed medical response to Sidney McIntrye-Starko’s overdose in a University of Victoria dorm, the BC gov will announce today pursuing more changes demanded by the 18-year-old’s parents, Postmedia has learned.
#bcpoli
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1/6 Details to keep in mind as Holborn tries to convince
#Vancouver
city hall that it can't afford to build the promised social housing at Little Mountain:
- Holborn agreed in 2008 to pay $334M, but didn't pay a cent to the province until 2013, when it made a $40-million deposit.
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There has been much (understandable) debate about the editorial in the
@VancouverSun
endorsing the Conservatives. To be clear, that opinion belongs to the paper’s owners, not its employees -or at least not this one. Reason
#1
: as a reporter I am to be unbiased covering
#elxn2019
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My son just came home from his first 2.5 hour Grade 11 class at
@HandsworthHSS
. He said all kids wore masks in class, as did the teacher. This is encouraging. Hope it continues.
#COVID19
#education
@NVSD44
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Hey
@vrbo
you cancelled my party's accommodations (which we booked a year ago) in Hawaii just 11 days before our trip. It's now 6 days to our flights and you still won't help us find new rooms. This is terrible
#CustomerService
. Please help us! We are desperate.
#travel
#tourists
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Best of luck to
@carolejames
in her retirement. Tipping my hat to all your many years of public service.
#bcpoli
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We could only tell this story by getting access to the 911 recording, which is impossible for journalists in Canada. It makes me wonder how many other cases in this country have failed medical responses that we simply don't know about.
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Driving home from my son’s Hockey game tonight, the 8:30 news led with Bianca’s big win, hurricane Dorian, and then the racist column published today in the newspaper where I work. That is gutting for me to hear. Much worse to the people we’ve insulted with those senseless words.
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Every person touched by the
#overdose
crisis will grieve differently. Roya and Ramin courageously decided to share their daughter Sufia’s tragic story in an effort to help others. It was so kind of them to meet with me and photographer Arlen Redekop.
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My son has been building a rink in our
#NorthVancouver
backyard for days. That's paid off for him & his little sis on this
#Snowpocalypse2020
day off school.
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6/6 All these details were secret for years, until
@danfumano
and I uncovered them through a series of investigations, with the help of dogged advocates and furious former tenants who had been unjustly removed from their homes in this once-thriving community.
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Ward & I were among the new kids in the
@VancouverSun
newsroom in the late 1990s. We went out on many news assignments. He was friendly, funny & great at his job. How unfair to have a stroke at 50 & die at 55. He deserved more time to take more pics. RIP
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Sidney’s parents are angered by the lack of accountability from the university.
“It is inconceivable that eight years into the opioid public health emergency, a student can die from an overdose on a campus when witnesses called for help immediately,” her mother said.
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I really enjoyed interviewing all the people quoted in this feature about doing their important, yet low-paying, work during a pandemic. Just wanted to thank them for taking time out of their busy lives to share their stories.
#COVID
ー19
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So much
#COVID19
news that I missed the announcement yesterday that BC gov will extend
#fostercare
$ & services for youth past their 19th birthdays while this crisis lasts. Great news, & maybe the beginning of permanent change for vulnerable teens
#bcpoli
@FirstCallBC
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The parents I spoke with for this story were very thoughtful - appreciated the care their kids got at
@BCChildrensHosp
, but were so alarmed by the long waits & overcrowding. They're asking what government is doing to fix this crisis?
@adriandix
#healthcare
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After the tragic death of University of Victoria student Sidney McIntyre-Starko, I looked at naloxone availability & emergency response at other universities & colleges: the rules are inconsistent & should be regulated.
#BCPoli
#SidneyShouldBeHere
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I just signed up to pay a small monthly fee to help the
@NorthShoreNews
(my community newspaper) during this difficult time. Reliable
#journalism
is so important during this health pandemic. If you are able, please consider supporting your local newspaper. Thank you!
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For that reason, I don’t think reporters should be seen to be endorsing any particular party. It was important to me to make this distinction clear to all the voters and candidates I’ve interviewed during this campaign.
#elxn2019
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Newspapers need more readers like this woman who emailed me about one of my stories. I thanked her for continuing to read the paper. This is what she wrote back to me:
Lori: I would give up my washer/dryer before I gave up my daily newspaper. Please keep writing!
#journalism
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3/3 finally thank you to the people on twitter who have shown kindness to the local journalists in our newsroom — we were as shocked by this column as everyone else and we appreciate your support.
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So I got to spend 3 days this week in Port McNeill & Port Hardy. Residents shared incredible stories of hardship & community support during the forestry strike. I tried to do their stories justice here.
@robshaw_vansun
@GabyWickstrom
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And there were more stories by us, as well as other media organizations, about this crazy deal that wiped out 238 subsidized homes for families in 2009, and so far only contains 53 social housing units today.
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Sidney’s case has national implications. There are 2M post-secondary students in Canada, & many students are told to call campus security for emergencies.
On many campuses, access to naloxone is not easy.
“That leaves us very frightened for other students,” said father Ken Starko
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This is a heart-breaking development. Tough to see a newspaper that my colleagues and I love, have to reduce the print version by one day. But we will still keep writing, so please keep reading. Thank you.
#journalism
The Vancouver Sun will no longer publish a newspaper on Mondays
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The family is also upset about the 911 call-taker.
“My daughter is no longer here to tell me how she was exposed to fentanyl,” her mom said.
“But we believe catastrophic failures by both the University of Victoria & the 911 operator contributed to Sidney’s preventable death.”
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Thank you for being so passionate about this story & for sharing it widely. If you want more info, please visit the parents’ website, which includes a letter campaign to bring about change.
I've written many stories about the toxic drug crisis, & they were all tragic, but this one was the hardest. I knew Sidney & her family. What happened to her is so wrong. If you have a child in university or college, you should read this & push for change.
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Today is the first day in
#BritishColumbia
to book
#Covid_19
vaccines for children, and I just got an app't for my 10-yr-old daughter for next Sunday. Grateful for BC's organized rollout of vaccines. Excited for her to get immunized.
@adriandix
@VCHhealthcare
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“When we realized she was going to die we knew something had gone horribly wrong,” Sidney's mom said.
The life of the witty, artistic, and kind-hearted teen ended on Jan. 29, when her organs were harvested for donation.
“My daughter’s death was entirely preventable.”
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The plan 30 yrs ago was for low-income apts to be built on 6 lots among high-end condos to create a mixed community in Yaletown. Today affordable housing will be on just 3 lots. What happened?
@joanneleeyoung
#vancouver
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The
@bcndp
plan to attack the
@bcliberals
and leader
@Wilkinson4BC
on the campaign trail today over the Liberals' sale of "surplus" gov land. Some background reading on this.
#bcpoli
#BCelxn2020
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@NightShiftMD
Seeing an apology on Twitter is so refreshing! Thanks for all the work you do, both in the hospital and in the media.
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2/3 To the people my newspaper has hurt, I offer my deepest apologies. I had nothing to do with that column or its publication, but I still feel the need to say sorry.
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After writing countless stories about a lack of services for youth aging out of care, it feels really great to write a good-news story about promised help for these vulnerable young people.
@AuntLeahs
@FirstCallBC
@RCYBC
@kamloops_a
@MitziDeanBC
@FBCYICN
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I will sign off with a few photos of beautiful Sidney, a first-year science student at the University of Victoria who loved dancing, reading and her family & friends.
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Update: Sufia’s parents Roya & Ramin so appreciate the support they received since their story came out yesterday. Twitter can be full of judgment & vitriol, but the responses to this story have been sympathy & a big demand for change. Thank you.
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One of my favourite things about working at
@VancouverSun
&
@theprovince
is the amazing photo archives. Check out this 1971 photo of former premier Mike Harcourt that we ran in today’s paper.
#bcpoli
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Amazing to see 100 people out protesting the still-incomplete sale of Little Mountain and the still-unfinished promised social housing at the site.
#socialhousing
@nickeagland
@fumano
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Spent some time this week in False Creek South to see why residents were so hopping mad about
#Vancouver
city hall’s redevelopment plan. They hope their opposition will lead to more affordable homes in unaffordable Vancouver.
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1 in 5 BC kids continue to live in poverty, says annual report by
@FirstCallBC
. "We are disappointed to see an increase of over 7,000 children under the age of 6 who were poor compared to 2017." And this, sadly, will be tough to fix during the
#COVID19BC
slow down.
#bcpoli
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Would love to hear what people think about this story. On the one hand, the B.C. gov't raised $800M by selling off public land. On the other hand, that land is now gone and we don't have an infinite supply.
#BCpoli
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Our latest attempt to provide more answers about the secret sales deal and the lack of new
#socialhousing
at Little Mountain. With
@fumano
#vanpoli
#bcpoli
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3/6 So Holborn still owes millions for the land it "bought" in 2008, and doesn't have to pay up fully until Dec. 31, 2031 (8 more years!) - part of its original agreement when it bought the former social-housing property from the province.
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4/6 But Holborn will never pay the province the full $334M, as it is allowed to subtract from that bill the costs of building the social housing units. AND B.C. Housing is lending Holborn $ to construct social housing at the same low interest rate it gives to non-profit agencies.
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Just looking at the
@bcliberals
press release on this
#BCvotes2020
campaign announcement, and all the promises have to do with police and courts. I see nothing on housing, addictions or mental health....
"We need to end these lawless tent cities," says
@Wilkinson4BC
today. But sounds like we'll have to wait for platform doc for concrete plans about where he will find housing for all these people.
#BCvotes2020
@bcliberals
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I've been working for nearly 4 weeks now with the talented
@fumano
on a crazy, complicated story that is finally (after many edits by our lawyer!) set to run in Saturday's
@VancouverSun
. Hope you read it & we'd love any feedback. Here's a little teaser photo.
#bcpoli
#journalism
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Worried about clean air in your kids' schools? We tried to get updated information about which
#BritishColumbia
schools have updated ventilation systems, & plans to update the rest.
#education
#COVID19
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No details yet about # of houses or industrial projects. Most of the land (250 acres) are on the North Shore. And as with Sen̓áḵw, the nation controls development over these lands, not the municipalities. This is a continuation of major developments by First Nations in Vancouver
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Sidney’s friend who shared her love for Percy Jackson came to the hospital to say goodbye. She whispered in Sidney’s ear.
“I described the plot of the newest episode of the Percy Jackson series...& reminded her of various things that we did when we were little, or goofy memories"
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Our first story:
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2/6 Holborn has paid a bit more since then for the property that's subdivided into 12 pieces, but not much: that's because it doesn't have to pay for each portion of land until a building permit is approved by the city. So far, it has only built one building on 1 piece of the lot
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Some very courageous people shared some very sad stories with me. Thank you to them. And to
@momsstoptheharm
,
@ugm
,
@FreeOfViolence
for introducing them to me. May solutions come very soon.
#bcpoli
#overdose
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5/6 Because of "uncertainty" over when building permits would be issued, Holborn has been allowed to discount the amount of each dollar owed by more than 3 per cent per year since 2013, leading to a reduction of several millions of dollar on its final tab.
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Former Georgia Straight editor
@charliesmithvcr
starts new online media outlet focusing on
#arts
in
#Vancouver
, esp those involving underrepresented artists.
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This is so sad. So many victims from Canada, and so many of those from North Vancouver and other parts of Metro Vancouver.
#Iran
#planecrash
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BC "is in talks" to start buying nasal spray naloxone - an easy-to-use version of the overdose-reversing medication, rather than the hard-to-use type that requires injection by needle. Ontario & other provinces have nasal, which bystanders are more willing to use in an emergency
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We tried in this story to show how this political debate over funding a compassion club has impacted the lives of people who received safe supply from it during an overdose crisis.
@DULFBC
@VANDUpeople
@katiederosayyj
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So grateful to
@GregGowe
's family for speaking with me at such a difficult time. And so in awe of Greg, who dedicated his life (since his May 2019 diagnosis) to fighting his own disease while also fighting so hard for a cure.
#EndALS
@ALSAction
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Sidney’s parents also want major change re: medical emergency response & naloxone availability on campuses. Post-secondary Minister
@lisabeare
is meeting this week w/ university & college presidents to discuss naloxone on campuses, which right now varies widely.
@uvic
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BC housing minister
@selinarobinson
was a surrogate mom years ago. Her story & the modern surrogacy debate.
#bcpoli
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.
@vancouversun
instant debate poll: more people liked
@AJWVictoriaBC
, less liked
@christyclarkbc
&
@jjhorgan
#BCdebate2017
#bcelxn17
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A quick update on the ongoing Little Mountain saga, where destroyed social housing hasn't been replaced for more than a decade. We keep trying to find out why, but still don't have all the answers. With
@fumano
.
#vanpoli
#bcpoli
@DavidChudnovsky
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Our second:
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Wow.
@bcliberals
will up
#Disability
&
#Welfare
rates? They said no when
@tracysherlock
& I wrote about
#poverty
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Looking for British Columbia parents & teachers to discuss masks and any other
#COVID19
concerns in schools, for
@VancouverSun
&
@theprovince
story. lculbert
@postmedia
.com
#bced
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Edgemont village getting ready for the second annual
@HandsworthHSS
Grade 12 parade. Finding a safe way to celebrate during COVID.
#Graduation2021
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This is such sad news. Just interviewed
@carolejames
yesterday with
@fumano
. Regardless of your political stripes, she is a nice person, a hard worker and it was great to see a female finance minister. I hope her health remains strong.
BC Finance Minister Carole James, who has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, announces she will remain Finance Minister but won’t seek re-election.
#bcpoli
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Long read: Over today, tmrw & Sat in
@VancouverSun
&
@theprovince
we tell the story of the first 3 months of
#COVID19
in BC. Thanks to all the people who spoke with us for this narrative. With
@robshaw_vansun
@joanneleeyoung
& Randy Shore.
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At
@queensu
to see my daughter graduate with a global development degree. Love this school, where i graduated in 1990 along with many friends. Now I’m the proud mama of Ainslie!
#graduation2023
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ICYMI: This is great news for former youth in care. These youth were getting insufficient gov support when
@tracysherlock
& I started writing about this issue a decade ago, & the BC NDP deserves kudos for these types of improvements -- to give them hope.
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A GoFundMe has now been set up for the 13 firefighters from the 24-member Wilson's Landing Fire Dept who lost their homes in the Kelowna-area wildfires, but kept on fighting the flames.
#WildFires
#firefighters
#kelownafire
A special thanks to these firefighters for taking time this week (when they were working loooooong days) to describe their harrowing moments on the front lines of these fires.
#WildFires
#firefighters
#Kelownafire
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Thru-out the COVID pandemic,
@fumano
& I have cont'd to get emails from people worried about the other crisis impacting 1/3 of Metro Vancouverites: skyrocketing condo insurance. We've now updated that story. Thanks to
@EliReport
for the new, exclusive data
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More desperately needed housing for women and children coming to
#Vancouver
’s Downtown Eastside. The goal is to help keep babies with their moms.
@ugm
#women
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Despite the
#Vancouver
's Downtown Eastside being hit hard by overdose deaths and
#coronavirus
, its nice to see a few silver linings. This new
@WISHvancouver
shelter will hopefully help many women who can use some kindness & support.
#bcpoli
#vanpoli
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@0fGoad
I hope no one you love needs help and doesn’t get it. Then you’ll understand their pain.
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.
@VancouverSun
readers raise valid concerns about the racist column published in our paper, for which our editor has apologized and promised to investigate how it got published in the first place.
#journalism
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@guyfelicella
Thanks for the shout-out, Guy. The story has been very popular on the Vancouver Sun's website. Hopefully the possible solutions resonate with people.
It's an excellent book by
@danya_fast
of the
@BCCSU
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AND BC will “consult with stakeholders” about making CPR training mandatory in high school curriculum, as it is in Ontario, Alberta, Quebec and Manitoba. This will teach a generation of youth how to rescue breathe or perform chest compressions on a victim until help arrives.
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Has a school or school property been sold in your community? Did you agree with the sale? Was the $ used to help education in your area?
#bcpoli
#education
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Thanks so much
@NNA_CCJ
Congrats to all the finalists in every category. So wonderful to be able to celebrate & support
#journalism
in Canada
@fumano
@katiederosayyj
@DouglasTodd
Congratulations
@loriculbert
@katiederosayyj
@fumano
@RobertFife
@stevenchase
@acoyne
@jgriffiths
@TorontoStar
@thenarwhalca
@VancouverSun
@theprovince
@globeandmail
More details at
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Congrats to my colleague
@robshaw_vansun
for his win and my friend
@fabulavancouver
for her nod in the biz category at the
#WebsterAwards
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My lastest story on the growing campaign to bring simple-to-use nasal spray naloxone to BC to more easily save lives during the toxic drug crisis.
#BCpoli
#SidneyShouldBeHere
@sarahblyth
@guyfelicella
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UPDATE from prov:
Will buy "10s of 1000s" of nasal naloxone in coming weeks. Not a big # for prov w/ 5M people, but gov promises more to come.
Aiming for mandatory CPR training in high schools by Sept.
Meeting Tuesday w/ post-secondary presidents to discuss overdose response.
NEW: In response to our story on the failed medical response to Sidney McIntrye-Starko’s overdose in a University of Victoria dorm, the BC gov will announce today pursuing more changes demanded by the 18-year-old’s parents, Postmedia has learned.
#bcpoli
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NEW: Premier David Eby has announced the province will hold a coroner's inquest into Sidney's death. That was one key demand by her parents.
I've written many stories about the toxic drug crisis, & they were all tragic, but this one was the hardest. I knew Sidney & her family. What happened to her is so wrong. If you have a child in university or college, you should read this & push for change.
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Moms Stop the Harm is such an incredible group of women. Despite their grief, they push for change to save other mothers from experiencing similar losses.
#harmreduction
@momsstoptheharm
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We are soon launching a series of stories in the
@VancouverSun
about drug treatment in BC, where the fentanyl
#Overdose
crisis is severe. Here is the first instalment.
#bcpoli
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My Grade 10 son and his friends are doing the epic triple crown on the north shore today. At least it isn’t raining!
#northvancouver
#biking
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While it's great that Vancouver will get 650 new affordable homes on 3 False Creek lots (a deal first announced when
@kennedystewart
was mayor), remember the original 1989 promise by Concord after buying the Expo Lands was for SIX lots for low-cost housing.
#Vancouver
#housing
News Release: New housing agreement would deliver more than 650 affordable homes in False Creek North:
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