Background Paper: Drug Trafficking, Substance Use, Immigrants and Refugees
Despite decades of global drug control efforts, primarily led by the US throughout the 20th century and more specifically in…
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HNC Feature: Where Social Connection Becomes Care
How we navigate our homes, relationships, and communities evolves as we age across the life course. This beautiful digital storytelling…
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Recap workshop: Understanding burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma
May 7, 2025 online With Presenters: Dr. Yaya de Andrade and Ana Pavon As part of VCST’s Interconnectedness Initiative, on…
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An interview with Charito Gailling
We see housing as critical infrastructure for “multi-solving” in the midst of multiple overlapping crises, like climate change, rising social…
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Living Together 2025 Symposium Wrap-Up
In May 2025, Hey Neighbour Collective gathered over 200 incredible people for two days of learning, connection, and collective action….
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An interview with Dan Levitt
In this short clip, Dan Levitt, BC’s Seniors Advocate, explains why collective action and a shared sense of responsibility are…
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Beyond Gender with Caleb Arring
In case you’re wondering, it’s arrrring, like a pirate. I know Caleb from business. And winning. And awesomeness. He’s from…
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Follow us on Instagram at @CanLyme_Canada
If you’re looking to follow a great Instagram channel on Lyme disease, be sure to follow us, @canlyme_canada, for informative…
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Aging with Exercise
Our modern society has become very good at keeping people alive. Over the past few decades the life expectancy in…
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People with greater emotional intelligence are better at spotting misinformation
The global proliferation of social media, the 24-hour news cycle and consumers’ ravenous desire for news means that today, misinformation…
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Interactive data shows income inequality and impact of racism on black boys
It’s easy for some to imagine that the US is the land of opportunity. After all, it’s a common narrative….
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Some COVID-19 online resources that might be helpful
World Health Organization COVID-19 , Health Canada’s Coronavirus daily update , Employment and Social Development Canada: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ,…
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Why a little chaos might be good for us
This interview with Shankar Vedantam is brilliant. Tim Harford tells us a little about his research and his book, Messy:…
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Ming Kuo, reality testing, and the benefits of natural environments on our mental health, and immunity
Hidden Brain is a great podcast. And this episode where Shankar Vedantam interviews Ming Kuo is one of my favourites….
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Yale professor Dr Laurie Santos takes us through the latest scientific research on happiness: The Happiness Lab
Dr. Laurie Santos is one of the founders of the Gi Joe Fallacy, and also the professor at Yale with…
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Science of us: I Now Suspect the Vagus Nerve Is the Key to Well-being
This is a great read on the nervous system and especially breathe and the vagus nerve. I liked this idea…
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How to practice emotional first aid | Guy Winch at TED
Guy Winch does an amazing job in this TED talk pointing out the disparity between our attention and cultural fixation…
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Making the Links 2018 Summary Report, now live!
After a few months of careful integration, the SHIFT team is thrilled to announce that the Making the Links Summary Report is now available. If you were one of the 180+ attendees who joined us at the Laurel Packinghouse in November…
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The Usefulness of Grief: Ambiguous Loss & How to be Present with Those Grieving
This article by Sound Options is a very good summary of some key dynamics in family grieving. From asynchronous grieving,…
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Arbutus Physiotherapy & Health Centre
We help high performance athletes, folks recovering from injuries, and seniors managing chronic pain. We work with people who want…
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It’s not all about the wobbly bits
I had an easy 40 minute run today as part of my half-marathon training schedule. I like easy runs, it…
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Articles about the protection of unethical behaviour of psychologists
“Protecting Psychologists who Harm; the American Psychological Association’s latest wrong turn”, an editorial by Roy Eidelson Ph.D, read it →…
