Author Archives: Cam Dore

Boston Children’s Hospital doctors believe Justina Pelletier’s disorder is mental, not medical. (Photo: Boston Children’s Hospital) A Connecticut teenager at the center of a yearlong medical dispute and custody battle involving two major hospitals and the state of Massachusetts reportedly was headed to foster care Monday despite her parents’ objections, according to news reports. Justina […]

About $32 million and an apology will go to former residents of the Rideau and Southwestern Regional Centres, after an emotional scene in court Monday Tim Alamenciak / Toronto Star Order this photo An Ontario judge has approved the settlement reached in the cases of Rideau Regional Centre and Southwestern Regional Centre, two institutions where […]

  A delegate passes between two signs on day one of the Liberal Party’s biennial convention in Montreal. Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes Lee Berthiaume  Published: February 23, 2014, 10:09 am Updated: 13 hours ago MONTREAL — Federal Liberals have passed a controversial resolution calling for the de-criminalization of medically-assisted suicide during their policy convention […]

On February 20 to 23, Special Olympics BC basketball players from all over the province will take to the court at the BC Games for the first time ever.The Mission 2014 BC Winter Games will include a Special Olympics Basketball division for the first time at this event, featuring seven teams of SOBC athletes ages […]

Special Olympics Basketball makes its debut at this year’s BC Winter Games in Mission. Published: February 22, 2014 2:00 PM Updated: February 22, 2014 3:51 PM by Alex Butler Black Press ********** Vancouver Island-Central Coast took on North West on Saturday in Special Olympics basketball at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, and […]

Posted on: January 28, 2014 – 12:52pm Provincial Ombudsperson Kim Carter released today her office’s latest report Time Matters: An Investigation into the BC Employment and Assistance Reconsideration Process. The report identifies that the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation was not meeting its own legislated requirements to complete reconsideration decisions within specified time […]

Extreme Air Park disparages mother 2:09 Autistic boy’s mother is livid RAW 3:05 The mother of an autistic child is livid with a Langley, B.C., theme park after she received a crude email in response to a complaint she made about the park’s admission policies. Kelly Moonie, left, says she has never had a problem with […]

Tessa Schmidt ‘ecstatic’ about return of wheels By Viviana Zanocco, CBC News Posted: Feb 17, 2014 4:55 PM PT Last Updated: Feb 17, 2014 4:58 PM PT ► Tessa Schmidt will get wheelchair 2:12 The Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation has reconsidered a decision to deny a replacement power wheelchair to a disabled woman. […]