InnerChange Foundation

great announcement http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/announces+additional+funding+risk+youth/11427785/story.html

B.C. MLA announces additional funding for at-risk women B.C. MLA for Vancouver False Creek Sam Sullivan announced an additional $250,000 in provincial funding for crisis help for at-risk women at Covenant House.

thank-goodness we have METL to shed light: http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/canada/britishcolumbia/story/1.3262821

CBC My Region - B.C. child protection service unsafe and in crisis: report B.C.'s child protection service is in crisis, a new report from Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond states. Growing up in B.C. - 2015/Office of the Representative of Children and Youth

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/interest+therapeutic+psychedelic+drugs+rise+says+research+review/11348508/story.html

Interest in therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs on the rise, says research review Research in Vancouver on psychedelic drugs as a possible treatment for mental illness is part of a worldwide renaissance of the formerly sidelined area. “The door to research has opened and many have walked through,” says Mark Haden, board chairman of the Multidisciplinary Association fo…

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/homemade-he**in-close-to-reality-say-canadian-researchers-1.3082971

Homemade he**in close to reality say Canadian researchers Researchers say they can use genetically engineered yeast to turn simple sugars into powerful opiates.