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Part I: Mental Health for Children and Youth – How to Get the Help You Need

Part I: Mental Health for Children and Youth – How to Get the Help You Need

Dr. David Smith says 13 per cent of B.C. youth experience a mental health issue every year – 83,700 children under age 19.

The Parent Trip: Being in a band

A year ago, I wrote a column about starting a band. My girlfriends and I started a band to … well, to be used as an escape mechanism.
Lt. Governor joins call to adopt (with video)

Lt. Governor joins call to adopt (with video)

"What I never knew is how much they would take care of me," Judith Guichon says of her experience raising four adopted children
VIDEO: Destination BC's new ad campaign promotes province's 'Wild Within'

VIDEO: Destination BC's new ad campaign promotes province's 'Wild Within'

In a new, 3-minute YouTube video, B.C.'s tourism bureau kicks off its Super, Natural British Columbia campaign...
Cities want authority to break car windows

Cities want authority to break car windows

Only police and SPCA constables have authority to enter cars or other private property to free an overheated dog
Why You Should Stay In a Hostel In Europe, Not a Hotel

Why You Should Stay In a Hostel In Europe, Not a Hotel

Cities like Lisbon, Budapest, and Krakow have turned to hosting clean, stylish hostels to entice frugal young travellers.
Watch Black Press newsrooms take the hilariously hope-filled Ice Bucket Challenge

Watch Black Press newsrooms take the hilariously hope-filled Ice Bucket Challenge

The viral fundraiser – which has raised over $100 million for ALS research and awareness – has been completed by several newsrooms to date
VIDEO: Canadian Tire, Leonardo DiCaprio head north for the Ice Bucket Challenge

VIDEO: Canadian Tire, Leonardo DiCaprio head north for the Ice Bucket Challenge

Olympians Kaillie Humphries, Charles Hamelin, and Hayley Wickenheiser assisted Canadian Tire, while DiCaprio challenged Stephen Harper...
Farm market coupon program expands

Farm market coupon program expands

Seniors, pregnant women and low-income family members who take a free food preparation course get $15 a week

The Parent Trip: Mexi-Kook

You know when you’re going through something unpleasant and someone tells you to go to your happy place?