Today I started the Welfare Food Challenge. For one week, my food budget is only $18. The welfare food challenge is organized by Raise the Rates, a coalition of community groups that focuses on issues facing the less fortunate and homeless in British Columbia. Day 1. [...]
I want to tell you a personal story about our healthcare system. My 4-year-old daughter, Athena, was born with a medical condition affecting her left hand. As a baby, she could not crawl or use her left hand. She required multiple surgeries at B.C. Children’s Hospital. Because of this [...]
I’d say she was about 10-years-old, but that’d be a guess: she didn’t know her actual age. Memona was a brave little girl, larger than life. She showed very little fear, her tiny heart hardened in the war torn Afghan village that was her home. I was point man (in front) on the patrol the […]
I never could have imagined that two little bear cubs would find their way into the hearts of British Columbians, hibernating away in our hearts and minds while I fought off the giant of bureaucracy. But they did! The public saw them for what they were, a little brother and sister just wanting [...]
