Author: Roy Summerhayes

BC’s Seniors Advocate is asking 30,000 users of HandyDART how well the service is helping them meet their transportation needs.

October 1st is the United Nations-declared “International Day of the Older Person.” The theme this year is ageism, a prejudice that the UN describes as the most socially-normalized form of discrimination worldwide.

  “There’s something special in the water of the Salish Sea,’ Governor Inslee said yesterday, and we agree,” said Laurie Gourlay in a letter to the Washington State Governor and BC Premier today.

Isobel Mackenzie, Seniors Advocate for BC, released a report today highlighting results of BC’s first ever province-wide survey of home support clients and their family members.

After 12 years Seniors 101 continues to evolve and respond to the needs of our users.

 With the world in mind a local campaign has begun on Canada’s west coast to have the Salish Sea declared a World Heritage Site. 

The Cowichan is one of its most productive rivers on the west coast. It is the heart and soul of the Cowichan Valley. Without it agriculture, the wine industry, tourism, hundreds of industrial jobs,  fishing and the traditional way of life of the first nations would cease to exist as we know it.

It’s really exciting to see things picking up again. This year, we are getting so many reports about an upswing in the economy and everywhere we go “SOLD” signs are proving that the real estate market is booming. Tourism BC predicts the biggest influx of tourists in years. It’s been a long time coming, but […]

This weekend we are supposed to contemplate how lucky we are to live in British Columbia. That’s the theory, anyway.

The Presidential election campaign that is currently underway in America is truly frightening.