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A Closer Look is the blog of Jody Paterson, a Victoria, B.C. writer and communications strategist with a passion on the side for street issues. She writes every Friday in the Victoria Times-Colonist and posts the columns on this site.
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Chong's food bill tough to swallowTough economic times are a particularly sensitive time to be learning that our political leaders think belt-tightening doesn't apply to them.Admittedly, news of elected officials pushing the limits on how much of...
aggregated: 7 weeks 8 hours ago | 8 views
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It's still the back of the bus for mental health servicesAlan Campbell couldn't believe the kind of care and support his wife received after being diagnosed with breast cancer five years ago. The speedy treatment. The kind words. The follow-up calls ...
aggregated: 9 weeks 4 hours ago | 7 views
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Mental-health cuts take aim at those unable to fight backPlease don't tell me that the people in charge of services on the Island for people with mental illness really think that it's us to blame for the sad condition of mental-health services. Dr. R...
aggregated: 10 weeks 7 hours ago | 7 views
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I've been hearing from lots of concerned family members around B.C. responding to my June 11 column on the major changes afoot for British Columbians with developmental disabilities. The push is on for an end to the group-home model for people with m...
aggregated: 10 weeks 2 days ago | 8 views
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Trouble inside VIHA?Check out this intriguing series of letters and opinion pieces from doctors and VIHA directors, all published in the Times Colonist in the past month. I've started with the June 9 editorial that got things rolling, followed by the...
aggregated: 10 weeks 3 days ago | 8 views
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B.C. families need to fight for group homesI remember the exact moment I started to look at people with mental handicaps in a completely different way. It was 1985, not long after the province had closed the huge institution for retarded people...
aggregated: 11 weeks 5 days ago | 6 views
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Lessons from BP tragedy: Trust is not an optionAs barrel after barrel of oil pours into the Gulf of Mexico, poisoning every living creature that comes in contact with it, I feel again a creeping dread at how little we know about the things we say yes...
aggregated: 13 weeks 3 hours ago | 7 views
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Can Trackside Gallery be reborn?(Here's a link to a Barry Barr photo of Trackside art)Not so long ago, Esquimalt's Trackside Art Gallery was being feted far and wide as an extraordinary achievement.A dark and crime-filled little lane transformed into...
aggregated: 15 weeks 5 hours ago | 5 views
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Living dark in a white worldIt's a weird feeling to be travelling in countries where virtually every face is dark-skinned, yet all the images on billboards and TV advertising are resolutely white. Even the storefront mannequins and baby dolls are blo...
aggregated: 16 weeks 2 hours ago | 4 views
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Travel a reminder of how much we all have in commonBeing able to travel isn't always an option for people, for all kinds of reasons. It costs money and time, after all, two things that most of us never have enough of to begin with. My early adulthood...
aggregated: 16 weeks 6 days ago | 4 views
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