Victoria Wednesday, December 19, 2018 2:30 PM With the winter holidays almost here, the Office of the Fire Commissioner and Emergency Management BC offer some fire safety advice to help ensure a happy and fire-safe holiday season for all British Columbians. Decorating Keep combustibles such as trees, wrapping paper and decorations away from heat […]
December 2018 Dear B.C. Self Advocacy Community and Supporters, Holiday greetings from Community Living BC (CLBC)! Here are important CLBC updates: New CLBC board members Inclusion BC and CLBC three-year plan to increase inclusive housing New CLBC Welcome Workshops New Strategic Initiative Advisors Self Advocate Net website and Speakers Bureau Public Guardian & Trustee program for former […]
So, continuing with the parts of my eBook Common Sense a Disabled Woman’s Perspective, here are the next two points. Enjoy, and as always your feedback is welcome. #2 Don’t just Listen to Me Hear Me! This is related to the first piece of common sense but very different. The key difference between the […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2018 TORONTO, ON – The Council of Canadian Academies’ (CCA) issued a landmark report last week that makes clear why medical assistance in dying (MAiD) must be restricted to those at the end of life. Their analysis shows that if Parliament were to repeal the end-of-life criterion in the current law, […]
It is sometimes hard to Christmas shop for Joe because when I’m in a store or mall, he’s usually beside me. We do a lot of this together. He gets to do his during my work hours, because he has time to wander the shops, but me, not so much. Gotta be careful that there […]
So this happened yesterday. Background: My doctor is fully aware of my distrust of the medical system and in accessing health services. He has never challenged or doctorsplained away any of my concerns or fears. He knows I come with a long and vast history of interactions that were disrespectful because of, first, my weight […]
He may have been about 14 or 15 years old, out with a bunch of his friends. They were a noisy bunch, banging into each other as they walked, laughing loudly, and generally being boys drunk on their own testosterone. I’m not fond of groups of teens, they so often see me as an easy […]
I rounded the back of the car and pushed myself up the cut curb. I think the crunching of salt under my tires caught his attention and he looked over at me. The school’s principal waved and commented on the mild night, I did too. He didn’t break his gait when he saw me, he […]
She is upset. Very upset. She sits down to talk to me during the morning coffee break. She is attending a conference wherein am presenting to staff at an agency in the morning and will be presenting to people with disabilities they serve in the afternoon. I usually prefer doing it the other way round […]
Have you ever had a behaviour that you wanted to get rid of, an impulse you wanted to control or a goal you wanted to achieve? Have you ever tried everything for change but find that you keep making the same bad decision over and over and over and over again? That’s me. Right now. […]
