$1.6 M donated to St. Paul’s mental-health program for youth
The Province
The donation will go to fund St. Paul’s Inner City Youth Mental Health Program, which has an integrated outreach team that helps youth with mental illness overcome obstacles to wellness.
Giving is the greatest gift of all
Richmond Review
Natalie Meixner, president and CEO of the Richmond Hospital Foundation, talks about one special donation the hospital has received this Christmas.
Missing women report calls for regional policing, points to “blatant errors” by police
Vancouver Sun
BC Attorney-General Wally Oppal today released 1,400-page report, entitled “Forsaken. Among the 63 recommendations made within the scope of the inquiry, Oppal also made two additional recommendations: the need for a 24-hour drop-in centre in the Downtown Eastside, and the need for a shuttle bus along Highway 16 in Northern B.C., where many vulnerable women have disappeared while hitchhiking.