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B.C.’s Community Living Crisis in the Media
Over 400 stories since April 2011!
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APRIL 2013
- News story about CLBC Stop the Cuts Group: The Tyee – April 2, 2013: People with Disabilities Mobilizing for BC Election
FEBRUARY 2013
- CFAX 1070 Victoria – February 27, 2013: On-air with Pamela McCall (10:00am)
- CKNW – February 25, 2013: Simi Sara Show (1:06pm)
- Times Colonist – February 24, 2013: Funding cuts need a road map
- Times Colonist – February 21, 2013: Developmentally disabled to feel knife of budget cutbacks, documents show
- Times Colonist – February 21, 2013: B.C. plans to slash funding for adults with disabilities
JANUARY 2013
- Kamloops Daily News – January 30, 2013: Community living workers set to strike
- Times Colonist – January 29, 2013: Campbell River mom, daughter one of first to test new Community Living BC waters
- Times Colonist – January 15, 2013: New Community Living BC policies designed to protect disabled adults
- CBC Radio 1/The Early Edition- January 15, 2013: Community Living BC: one year later
SEPTEMBER 2012
- Times Colonist – September 23, 2012: No fall sitting of the legislature delays advocacy reach for children and youth
AUGUST 2012
- CTV News – August 26, 2012: CLBC critics protest in Victoria
JULY 2012
- Times Colonist – July 27, 2012: Bonuses should not be the rule
- Times Colonist – July 26, 2012: Bosses paid bonuses ast CLBC lost way
- Prince George Citizen – July 19, 2012: Union leaders question Community Living spending
- Times Colonist – July 14, 2012: Independent review needed for CLBC
- Times Colonist – July 10, 2012: CLBC failures require a full public review
- CKNW – July 9, 2012: Bill Good Show: 8:30am – 12pm (10:36am into broadcast)
- CFAX 1070 Victoria – July 9, 2012: 8am News
- CFAX 1070 Victoria – July 9, 2012: Murray Langdon Show
- NEWS 1130 – July 9, 2012: Group urges public inquiry into Community Living BC
- Times Colonist – July 7, 2012: Community Living BC leaders given second term
- CKNW – July 5, 2012: Some CLBC board members quietly reappointed
JUNE 2012
- Vancouver Coop Radio CFRO 102.7FM – June 27, 2012: Interview RE: Bonuses to CLBC Executives
- Vancouver Courier – June 27, 2012: Clark’s Families First goes off the rails at CLBC
- CKNW – June 27, 2012: Bill Good Show: 8:30am – 12pm (10:44am into broadcast)
- Burnaby Now – June 27, 2012: MLA: Trust is gone
- Surrey Now – June 26, 2012: Families first? Let’s start with honesty
- Vancouver Sun – June 26, 2012: OpEd: Incompetence rewarded while community services deteriorate
- Peace Arch News – June 25, 2012: BC Conservatives call for Cadieux’s job
- CKNW – June 25, 2012: Bill Good Show: 8:30am – 12pm (8:36am into broadcast)
- CKNW – June 24, 2012: Cadieux to keep her job, as Clark blames the NDP for CLBC confusion
- Georgia Straight – June 23, 2012: OpEd: Mess at Community Living BC shows independent review needed
- CKNW – June 23, 2012: Cadieux admits CLBC contraversy has done damage
- NEWS 1130 – June 22, 2012: Community Living BC users not happy with senior staff raises
- Globe and Mail – June 22, 2012: Government fumbling caused Community Living BC mess
- CFAX 1070 Victoria – June 22, 2012: Radio Show 2:10pm
- Vancouver Sun – June 22, 2012: CLBC senior staff eligible for bonuses despite controversy
- CKNW – June 22, 2012: Simi Sara Show: 12:30 – 3pm (12 :50pm broadcast)
- CKNW – June 22, 2012: Bill Good Show: 8:30am – 12pm (8:35am into broadcast)
- CKNW – June 22, 2012: CLBC faces protests over executive bonuses
- CTV News – June 22, 2012: Outrage grows over CLBC pay controversy
- Times Colonist – June 22, 2012: CLBC execs could still get bonuses
- The Province – June 22, 2012: Letters: CLBC raises
- Sunshine Coast Reporter – June 22, 2012: CLBC decision raises alarm bells
- Times Colonist – June 22, 2012: CLBC bonuses call for inquiry
- Times Colonist – June 21, 2012: Letter: when is the next incentive plan?
- The Province – June 21, 2012: Letters CLBC wage hikes
- The Province – June 21, 2012: Editorial: You have to give your head a shake
- Times Colonist – June 21, 2012: Letter: CLBC executives’s raises outrageous
- CKNW – June 21, 2012: Bill Good Show: 8:30am – 12pm (8:38am into broadcast)
- CKNW News – June 21, 2012: The NDP accuse Premier of “trickery” and “word games” over CLBC controversy
- CKNW News – June 21, 2012: The leader of the BC Tories calls Premier’s defence of CLBC raises “bizarre”
- CBC radio-Canada tele – June 20, 2012: Nouvelles
- 24 Hours – June 20, 2012: Community Living BC bigwigs to keep “bonuses”
- CKNW – June 20, 2012: Simi Sara Show: 12:30 – 3pm (1:10pm broadcast)
- CBC Radio Early Edition – June 20, 2012: Download podcast for June 20/12
- CKNW – June 20, 2012: Minister responds to CLBC bonuses
- CKNW – June 20, 2012: CKNW News at 7am (7:50 into broadcast)
- The Province – June 20, 2012: Government takes heat for pay hikes to senior managers
- Vancouver Sun – June 20, 2012: Pay hikes for Community Living BC execs draw fire
- Vancouver Sun – June 20, 2012: Pay raises spark call for CLBC review
- Times Colonist – June 20, 2012: CLBC executives didn’t learn a thing
- Times Colonist – June 20, 2012: Pay hikes for CLBC bosses “disgusting,” advocacy group says
- CHBC TV – June 19, 2012: News at Eleven (23:22)
- CKNW News – June 19, 2012: Raises handed out at CLBC irk the NDP critic
- CTV News – June 19, 2012: 6 o’clock news (9:50 into broadcast)
- CTV News – June 19, 2012: 6 o’clock news: Premier defends pay raises at Community Living BC
- Global BC TV – June 19, 2012: Embattled Community Living BC pays out big wage hikes to management
- CHAN-TV – June 19, 2012: News Hour at 6pm (re: executive raises)
- Times Colonist – June 19, 2012: Agency to review findings from coroner’s inquest to “better protect seniors”
- Times Colonist – June 19, 2012: CLBC execs get raises after bonus eliminated
- Vancouver Sun – June 19, 2012: CLBC execs get raises after bonus eliminated
- CKNW News – June 16, 2012: Coroner’s inquest recommends more home visits under CLBC
- Times Colonist – June 16, 2012: Province makes disability services complaint team permanent
- Times Colonist – June 16, 2012: Inquest recommends training program, more home visits
- The Province – June 15, 2012: Joan Andrews inquest: training program, more home visits recommended
- rabble.ca – June 13, 2012: New BC welfare rules: some positive steps forward, a couple back
- Times Colonist – June 13, 2012: Caregiver had no training for disabled, inquest hears
- Times Colonist – June 12, 2012: Inquest probes bed-fall death of senior living in home-share
- Vancouver Sun – June 12, 2012: BC overhauls employment and disability assistance programs
- Vancouver Sun – June 6, 2012: CLBC changes ring hollow to parents who feel betrayed
MAY 2012
- Vancouver Sun – May 30, 2012: Child with disability faces uncertain future as adult
- Nanaimo Daily News – May 26, 2012: Advocates call for help from the CLBC
- Times Colonist – May 17, 2012: At 19, disabled still face cuts, families say
- Times Colonist – May 11, 2012: BC government to provide at least $2800 a year to young adults with developmental disabilities
- Maple Ridge News – May 15, 2012: Rally in Peace park to protect community living [editor’s note: this rally was organized by the grassroots group CLBC Stop the Cuts, not the BC-CLAG]
- Maple Ridge News – May 11, 2012: Maple Ridge rally to preserve community living [editor’s note: this rally was organized by the grassroots group CLBC Stop the Cuts, not the BC-CLAG]
APRIL 2012
- Kamloops Daily News – April 26, 2012: Mentally ill group home resident charged in Juniper Market hold-up
MARCH 2012
- Times Colonist – March 21, 2012: Developmentally delayed woman continues cycle in and out of jail
- The Province – March 9, 2012: Former Community Living B.C. director suies for being fired after dangerous-driving conviction
FEBRUARY 2012
- Burnaby Now – February 15, 2012: Taking fight to the streets
JANUARY 2012
- Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Times – January 31, 2012: Premier mends fences with recyclers
- Kelowna Daily Courier – January 31, 2012: Fix for families of disabled
- Noth Shore News – January 29, 2012: CLBC hopes new plan will regain trust
- Vancouver Sun – January 24, 2012: Patronizing approach is not paying off
- Vernon Morning Star – January 22, 2012: Agencies on edge over CLBC changes
- South Asian Link – January 21, 2012: CLBC stop the cuts rally
- Kamloops Daily News – January 20, 2012: External review needed even with new funding, Community Living says
- CFAX – January 20, 2012: Murray Langdon interview with Michael Prince RE: CLBC funding announcement
- CTV News – January 20, 2012: BC developmental disability agency gets $40M extra
- Times Colonist – January 20, 2012: Premier pledges $40 million for CLBC
- Vancouver Sun – January 20, 2012: Premier pledges $40 million for developmentally disabled
- Vancouver Sun – January 20, 2012: Community Living groping in the dark
- Vancouver Sun – January 20, 2012: Beleagered CLBC gets much needed cash infusion
- The Province – January 20, 2012: Clark’s $40m response
- CFOX 99.3 FM – January 20, 2012: BCGEU’s comment on CLBC funding increase
- CKNW News 980 – January 20, 2012: Money for CLBC may not be enough
- METRO (Vancouver) – January 20, 2012: Beleaguered agency gets $40M overhaul
- CBC TV News – January 19, 2012: Troubled BC agency gets $40 million boost
- CTV Vancouver Island – January 19, 2012: CLBC Gets $40 million to fix care
- Georgia Straight – January 19, 2012: BC government introduces plan to fix Community Living BC
- CTV News – January 19, 2012: CLBC gets $40M boost as review urges “cultural change”
- Global BC TV – January 19, 2012: CLBC gets $40 million dollar budget boost
- Canadian Press – January 19, 2012: $40M not enough for Community Living
- Globe and Mail – January 19, 2012: $40-million spending hike announced for disabled adults
- CKNW News 980 – January 19, 2012: Community Living BC gets a financial boost in a bid to fix long standing problems
- NEWS 1130 – January 15, 2012: NDP demands answers about CLBC reviews
- The Province – January 15, 2012: Dix wants internal CLBC reviews publicized
DECEMBER 2011
- Victoria Times Colonist – December 31, 2112: Curtain falls on 12 months of drama
- Global News – December 29, 2012: Premier Christy Clark in a year-end interview
- Vancouver Sun – December 23, 2011: How Premier Clark can fix Community Living BC
- CTV News – December 17, 2011: Advocate wants service access rights for disabled
- Times Colonist – December 17, 2011: Lindsay Kines’s favourite: Community Living B.C. forced to make changes
- CBC TV News – December 16, 2011: BC Premier Christy Clark shares year-end views
- Vancouver Sun – December 16, 2011: Insisting she has no regrets, Christy Clark hopes for a more positive future
- Shaw TV – December 8, 2011: Voice of BC: Protecting the vulnerable
- Vancouver Sun – December 2, 2011: Care and social strategy for the developmental disabled in demand
NOVEMBER 2011
- Revelstoke Times Review – November 30, 2011: International Day of Disabled Persons challenges all levels of government and community to include disabled persons in development
- Vancouver Sun – November 28, 2011: BC deficit expected to hit $3.1 billion this year
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 26, 2011: Official CLBC line was simply false
- North Shore News – November 23, 2011: CLBC needs more help than a flashlight
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 22, 2011: Disabled teen may be moved from jail to home
- CKNW Talk 980 – November 21, 2011: Bill Good Show: Stephanie Cadieux, Minister of Social Development (audio vault 9am) and Dawn Steele, MOMS/BC-CLAG (audio vault: 9:30am)
- The Province – November 20, 2011: CLBC admits losing sight of core values
- Canada.com – November 19, 2011: Community care crisis demands a resolution
- Vancouver Sun – November 19, 2011: CLBC admits causing families “significant stress“
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 19, 2011: Agency admits to pressure tactics
- Global News – November 18, 2011: Community Living BC reconfirms organization lost its way
- Huffington Post (Canadian Press) – November 18, 2011: Stephanie Cadieux Report: Mentally disabled BC adults won’t be forced to move from group homes
- CTV News – November 18, 2011: Small changes at CLBC are not enough
- The Province – November 18, 2011: Community Living BC strayed from “core values,” says interim report
- NEWS 1130 – November 18, 2011: Province orders review into Community Living BC
- CKNW News 980 – November 18, 2011: Changes coming to CLBC
- Vancouver Sun – November 18, 2011: Government expected to release Community Living report on potential changes to organization
- CFJC TV Kamloops – Novmember 18, 2011: Disabled cuts
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 15, 2011: Reviews boost services to developmentally disabled
- Vancouver Sun – November 14, 2011: CLBC review teams increase support in majority of closed complaints
- CBC Radio 1/Almanac – November 14, 2011: Mark Forsythe interviews Vancouver Sun reporter Denise Ryan about crisis in BC’s disability sector
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- Adrian Raeside’s editorial cartoon in the Nov. 12, 2011 edition of the Victoria Times Colonist
- Vancouver Sun – November 11, 2011: CLBC arbitrarily removes warning flags about man’s violence
- Burnaby Now & Richmond News – November 11, 2011: A history of community living
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 11, 2011: Light must shine on CLBC’s failures
- North Shore News: CLBC families not so first for Liberals
- CHBC-TV 11pm News, Kelowna: Paul Sibley, CLBC, removed from his position
- CHAN-TV: News Final, Burnaby: Paul Sibley, CLBC, removed from his position
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 10, 2011: Disabled teen stuck in jail due to lack of services, watchdog says
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 10, 2011: Les Leyne: CLBC slow to admit underfunding
- Global BC TV – November 10, 2011: Another CLBC senior manager let go
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 9, 2011: CLBC severance shows government not listening
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 9, 2011: CLBC must rediscover its roots to improve.
- Royal City Record (New Westminster) – November 9, 2011: “Families First” rings hollow
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 9, 2011: CLBC severance shows government not listening
- Burnaby Now – November 9, 2011: “Families First” rings hollow
- Vancouver Sun – November 7, 2011: Ex-chair sounded funding alarm
- Vancouver Sun – November 8, 2011: CLBC fiasco gives Clark’s family agenda big black eye
- Vancouver Sun – November 8, 2011: Former Community Living executive warned government there wasn’t enough money to help disabled adults
- Vancouver Sun – November 7, 2011: Disabled teen’s mother gets hotline runaround
- Vancouver Sun – November 7, 2011: Former CLBC Board chair hopes publicity results in money
- Vancouver Sun – November 7, 2011: Treatment of disabled saddens public
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 5, 2011: Hughes offers advice on kids’ ministry
- Vancouver Sun – November 5, 2011: Family wins battle with government to keep group home open
- Vancouver Sun – November 5, 2011: Cuts to Community Living BC are disturbing, eye-opening
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 5, 2011: Plan to close group home reversed
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 5, 2011: CLBC stumbles demand independent review
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 4, 2011: Hughes backs child watchdog’s plan
- Vancouver Sun – November 4, 2011: Toll-free CLBC hotline a ‘sham,’ parent says
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 4, 2011: Former CEO of Community Living B to get $345,000 severance
- News 1130 – November 4, 2011: Families fear the worst as group homes close
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 4, 2011: CLBC, government role needs external review
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 4, 2011: Confidence lost in CLBC, government
- Vancouver Sun – November 4, 2011: Allegations in Sun story “concerning,” minister says
- Parksville-Qualicum News – Novemeber 4, 2011: Leave it to the experts
- Nanaimo Daily News – November 3, 2011: We need a review of Community Living BC
- Vancouver Sun – November 3, 2011: Mother battles to hold on
- Vancouver Sun – November 3, 2011: Minister calls allegations regarding CLBC ‘concerning’
- Vancouver Sun – November 3, 2011: Community Living report rewritten to justify cuts
- CTV Vancouver Island – November 2, 2011: Family turns to CTV for help for disabled son
- Global TV BC – November 2, 2011: Life in turmoil
- Vancouver Sun – November 2, 2011: Her funding cut off, profoundly disabled 19-year old has nowhere to go
- Vancouver Sun – November 2, 2011: Public inquiry needed to look into Community Living
- Vancouver Sun – November 2, 2011: Mom’s attempt to beat poverty on hold
- Vancouver Sun – November 2, 2011: Woman battling cancer must also fight for autistic son
- Richmond News – November 1, 2011: Editorial Cartoon on CLBC
- Victoria Times Colonist – November 1, 2011: Growing need for CLBC review
OCTOBER 2011
- Langley Times – October 31, 2011: Move still on for Langley group home residents
- Vancouver Sun – October 31, 2011: Care cuts leave sister scrambling with aging brother’s disabilities
- Vancouver Sun – October 31, 2011: Struggle for care: Mother fights to get special-needs son back home
- Vancouver Sun – October 31, 2011: Community Living seeks to restore core values
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 30, 2011: Home care for disabled went awry, report says
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 28, 2011: CLBC has been jinxed from the start
- Prince George Free Press – October 28, 2011: Prince George girl may fall through Community Living BC cracks
- CFJC TV Kamloops – October 28, 2011: Community Living rally
- Kamloops Daily News – October 28, 2011: Parents, advocates rally against community living funding cuts
- Global TV – October 27, 2011: CLBC double dipping
- Revelstoke Times Review – October 26, 2011: Revelstoke residents feel effects of CLBC crisis
- Global TV – October 26, 2011: CLBC alleged abuse
- CTV News – October 25, 2011: Groups claim conflict of interest at CLBC
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 25, 2011: Government for some people
- Williams Lake Tribune – October 25, 2011: Better to rule with your head and your heart
- Chilliwack Times – October 25, 2011: Editorial: Criticism may lead to change
- Comox Valley Record – October 25, 2011: Cumberland Council endorses BC CLAG campaign
- Burnaby News Leader – October 25, 2011: Editorial: Not ‘family first’
- Coast Reporter – October 25, 2011: CLBC – time for a closer look
- BC Local News – October 25, 2011: A long road to community living
- Digital Journal – October 24, 2011: Op-Ed: Pressure is growing in BC for better disability support
- CBC Radio – October 24, 2011: The Early Edition: Political Panel
- Global TV – October 24, 2011: News Hour: CLBC Double Dipping
- Global TV – October 24, 2011: CLBC facing new controversy over double dipping
- The Province – October 23, 2011: Developmentally disabled squeezed
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 23, 2011: Children’s watchdog fears for young adults
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 23, 2011: CLBC should fund parent caregivers
- Vancouver Sun – October 22, 2011: Community Living BC ordered to stop giving executives bonuses
- The Province – October 22, 2011: Community Living BC bonuses still on the table
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 22, 2011: CLBC finally grabs Liberals’ attention
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 22, 2011: We still walk past those that need our help
- Montreal Gazette – October 22, 2011: Beleaguered BC group home agency to halt management bonuses
- The Province – October 22, 2011: Community Living BC bonuses on the table
- CTV News – October 22, 2011: BC Liberals scramble to mend wounded care agency
- Global BC – October 22, 2011: Minister attends CLBC’s youth transition fair amidts controversy
- Montreal Gazette – October 23, 2011: Disabled BC woman faces battle for government care
- CTV Vancouver Island – October 21, 2011: Shake up at agency caring for disabled
- Vancouver Sun – October 21, 2011: Community Living BC management bonuses to be addressed: minister
- Globe and Mail – October 21, 2011: Minister orders Community Living BC to axe bonuses
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 21, 2011: Community Living BC ordered to stop paying bonuses
- CKNW News – October 21, 2011: NDP Social Development critic not sold on action taken over CLBC bonuses
- CTV News – October 21, 2011: Minister orders end to bonuses at Community Living BC
- Vancouver Sun – October 21 2011: Community Living BC management bonuses to be addressed: Minister
- CBC News – October 21, 2011: Community Living BC bonuses cut by minister
- CKNW – October 21, 2011: Community Living BC to look at bonus structure
- Royal City Record – October 21, 2011: Criticism from within may lead to change
- Global BC – October 20, 2011: Bonuses handed out to top executives at CLBC
- Globe and Mail – October 20, 2011: MLA Randy Hawes – an unlikely backbench rebel
- Vancouver Sun – October 20, 2011: Mutiny was in the air during Liberal caucus.
- BC Local News – October 20, 2011: Hawes shows Clark what an MLA should do
- Vancouver Sun – October 20, 2011: Clark admits more must be done
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 20, 2011: Money for stadium, not for vulnerable people
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 20, 2011: Government’s treatment of disabled is shameful
- Abbotsford Times – October 20, 2011: Abbotsford MLAs lash out over treatment of adults with developmental disabilities
- CKNW – October 19, 2011: CLBC has spent thousands to try and polish its media image
- The Tyee – October 19, 2011: Government aware of CLBC’s needs, says interim head
- BC Local News – October 19, 2011: Interim CEO defends disabled care
- Abbotsford News – October 19, 2011: Community living crisis recognized
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 19, 2011: Government attacked by its own MLAs
- Vancouver Sun – October 19, 2011: Second Liberal MLA slams own government over treatment of developmentally disabled
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 19, 2011: Liberal backbencher’s barrage continues
- Burnaby Now – October 19, 2011: Hawes was losing sleep – shouldn’t we all?
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 19, 2011: Hawes shows MLAs not just playing ‘games’
- The Province – October 19, 2011: I guess I’m the ‘noise‘
- The Province – October 19, 2011: Insensitive wording
- The Province – October 19, 2011: CLBC chairwoman out of touch with reality
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 19, 2011: Hawes leads on CLBC
- CKNW – October 18, 2011: Opposition Leader buoyed by Liberal dissidents
- CKNW – October 18, 2011: Another BC Liberal MLA breaks ranks over the CLBC issue
- CBC News – October 18, 2011: Community Living BC under fire again
- The Province – October 18, 2011: CLBC should view no one as ‘outside noise’
- The Province – October 18, 2011: BC man with Down Syndrome moved to group home after fight with CLBC
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 18, 2011: CLBC review badly needed
- The Province – October 18, 2011: Liberal government rushing to staunch group home blood
- CTV VI News – October 17, 2011: Cracks in government over disabled
- The Province – October 17, 2011: Services for mentally disabled adults: government scrambling for cover
- Vancouver Sun – October 17, 2011: Liberal MLA Randy Hawes challenges his own government
- CTV News – October 17, 2011: Liberal MLA attacks own party over group home closures
- Globe and Mail – October 17, 2011: Liberal MLAs join call to end group home closures
- BC Local News – October 17, 2011: Pressure grows for disability support
- CKNW – October 17, 2011: Community Living BC controversy arrived at the BC Legislature today
- Victoria Times Colonist/Vancouver Sun – October 17, 2011: Liberal backbencher slaps own government, asks for review of CLBC
- Georgia Straight – October 17, 2011: Liberal MLA Randy Hawes questions government’s approach to community living
- CKNW – October 17, 2011: Simons: Stop closing group homes
- CBC News – October 17, 2011: CLBC Opposition Critic on CBC Almanac (12:10pm)
- CBC News – October 16, 2011: NDP calls for Community Living BC overhaul
- The Province – October 16, 2011: Independent review of CLBC needed: Dix
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 16, 2011: Thumbs up/Thumbs down
- Vancouver Sun – October 15, 2011: ‘New leadership’ sought as agency’s CEO steps down
- CKNW News – October 14, 2011: NDP reacts to CLBC firing
- Globe and Mail – October 14, 2011: Community Living BC shuffles out CEO
- CTV News – October 14, 2011: Community Living BC fires CEO after controversy
- Global TV News – October 14, 2011: Community living problems
- Top News US – October 14, 2011: 46-year old patient faces unnecessary delay for group home facility
- The Province – October 14, 2011: Acute-care bed for Down syndrome patient costing $1,000 a day: Gaffney draws support for move to group home
- Williams Lake Tribune: MLA calls for community living review
- Burnaby Now – October 9, 2011: Two thousand people are waitign for help – but group says numbers are under-estimating the size of the problem in BC
- Castlegar Source – October 9, 2011: NDP slams Liberal policy of closing group homes
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 9, 2011: Waiting list figures for disabled questioned
- Nanaimo Daily News – October 8, 2011: Editorial: Community Living BC needs to be fixed
- CTV News – October 7, 2011: BC tapped out of money for disabled
- Victoria Times Colonist blog – October 7, 2011: Does Christy Clark get it?
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 7, 2011: CLBC review is needed now
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 7, 2011: 2,800 with disabilities await help; Community Living BC sees $65-million bill to clear backlog
- CKNW Talk 980 – October 6, 2011: Bill Good Show: Faith Bodnar, BCACL/BC-CLAG (audio vault: 10:30am)
- Winnipeg Free Press – October 6, 2011: BC government says almost 3000 people with disabilities await more help
- The Q – 100.3 FM, Victoria – October 5, 2011: NEWS comments by Dawn Steele, MOMS/BC-CLAG re: Question Period in Legislature
- Victoria Times Colonist – October 4, 2011: Snag in release of statistics outlining developmental-disability waiting list; New minister wants briefing before figures made public
SEPTEMBER 2011
- Victoria Times Colonist – September 28, 2011: Bloy’s not the problem
- Vancouver Sun – September 27, 2011: Bloy finally shuffled to sidelines as Clark restructures her cabinet; Premier’s judgment would have been questioned had she stuck by his side
- Victoria Times Colonist – September 27, 2011: Clark corrects two cabinet mistakes
- The Province – September 26, 2011: Funding approved for Jenny’s care
- Vancouver Sun – September 25, 2011: Disabled Victoria woman has provincial care funding approved
- Vancouver Sun – September 24, 2011: BC failing its disabled citizens, report finds (Read the report)
- Victoria Times Colonist – September 23, 2011: Hello Harry, Get Me Rewrite!
- Victoria Times Colonist – September 23, 2011: Government stalling over disability data revealed
- Sing Tao Daily – September 22, 2011: Chinese language report on the Burnaby protest against CLBC’s cuts to a Douglas College program that provides job training for youths with developmental disabilities
- Victoria Times Colonist – September 22, 2011: Community Living BC ordered to release waiting list statistics
- French Tribune – September 22, 2011: Community Living BC being asked about waiting figures
- Vernon Morning Star – September 21, 2011: Families uneasy over relocation
- Burnaby Now – September 21, 2011: Parents protest cuts for people with developmental disabilities
- CTV News – September 21, 2011: Families protest cuts to programs for the disabled
- Global BC – September 21, 2011: Community Living BC decides to fund previously cut program
- CKNW – September 20, 2011: Community Living BC admits mistake in handling of disabled workers
- Global BC – September 20, 2011: Rally outside MLA Eric Foster’s office
- Vancouver Sun – September 20, 2011: Recycling jobs program suddenly reinstated
- Alaska Highway News – September 2o, 2011: Province, CLBC failing the disabled
- Maple Ridge News – September 20, 2011: Recycling depot jobs program extended another year
- Trail Daily Times – September 19, 2011: Province and CLBC failing disabled citizens
- Vernon Morning Star – September 18, 2011: Vernon agency fearful following job cuts
- Vancouver Sun – September 16, 2011: Needed cabinet shuffle unlikely
- Maple Ridge News – September 16, 2011: News Views: Real worth
- Paying attention (Paul Willcocks Blog) – September 16, 2011: Province, CLBC failing the disabled
- Victoria Times Colonist – September 15, 2011: CLBC in big trouble despite increase
- Victoria Times Colonist – September 15, 2011: Disabled hurt by funding crisis
- Vancouver Sun – September 15, 2011: BC to spend another $6 million on adults with developmental disabilities
- Maple Ridge News – September 15, 2011: Maple Ridge disabled program in doubt
- The Province – September 15, 2011: Funding for special-needs adults falls short of target
- Globe and Mail – September 14, 2011: BC hikes money for developmentally disabled adults
- CTV News – September 14, 2011: BC adds $6 million in funding for disabled
- Global TV BC – September 14, 2011: Community Living slashes jobs for mentally challenged adults
- Victoria Times Colonist – September 14, 2011: Community Living BC gets $6M budget lift
- NEWS1130 – September 14, 2011: BC finds funding for adults with developmental disabilities
- CKNW Talk 980 – September 14, 2011: Bill Good Show: Minister of Social Development Harry Bloy(audio vault: 10:20am)
- Victoria Times Colonist – September 11, 2011: Jenny pays a price for becoming an adult
- Maple Ridge Times – September 10, 2011: Job program cut at recycling depot
- Globe and Mail – September 8, 2011: Is Clark’s “families first” refrain past its best before date?
- The Province – September 7, 2011: We can’t compromise care of those who need it most
- CKNW News Talk 980 – September 6, 2011: The World Today (audio vault: 5:35pm)
- The Province – September 6, 2011: Community living BC cuts cause pain
- CBCV-FM – September 2, 2011: All Points West program
- Campbell River Mirror – September 1, 2011: Community living in BC: A far cry from “families first”
AUGUST 2011
- Vancouver Sun & Victoria Times Colonist – August 31, 2011: $70 million budget boost needed for developmentally disabled, advocates say
- The Province – August 31, 2011: Editorial: Program cuts hurt the most vulnerable
- CKNW 980 – August 31, 2011: Bill Good Show (audio vault: 11:00am)
- CTV News – August 30, 2011: Advocates fear cutbacks put the disabled at risk
- The Province – August 30, 2011: Special needs adults in danger of losing their homes
- Richmond Review – August 30, 2011: Families speak out over group home closures
- Vancouver Sun – August 29, 2011: Family members decry closures of group homes for developmentally disabled
- News 1130 – August 29, 2011: Special needs families upset over funding cuts
- Vancouver Observer – August 23, 2011: Disabled adults and families devastated by province’s proposed group home closures
- Langley Times – August 19, 2011: A move they don’t want to make
- Vancouver Sun – August 17, 2011: Developmentally disabled adults need housing solution
- Victoria Times Colonist – August 17, 2011: CLBC cuts hurt disabled, families
- Victoria Times Colonist – August 16, 2011: Paul Willcocks: CLBC service cuts hurt most vulnerable
- Vancouver Sun – August 13, 2011: Government misleading families over group home closures, NDP says
- Victoria Times Colonist – August 13, 2011: Disabled are being forced to move, NDP alleges
- Victoria Times Colonist – August 12, 2011: Closure of group homes shocks parents
- Global TV BC – August 11, 2011: Mother fights for best care for handicapped teenaged daughter
JULY 2011
- North Shore News – July 24, 2011: 19 and nowhere to go
- Abbotsford News – July 12, 2011: Families struggle with funding for community living programs and services
- Victoria Times Colonist – July 12, 2011: Mom fears her son may fall through safety net
JUNE 2011
- Victoria Times Colonist – June 21, 2011: Disabled hurt by weak minister
- Victoria Times Colonist – June 14, 2011: Disabled face more cuts ahead: documents
- Victoria Times Colonist – June 4, 2011: Agencies serving BC residents with developmental disabilities push back against province
- CTV News – June 3, 2011: Gov’t promises to improve disability services
- Channel A News Victoria: BC government appears ready to reinstate funding
- Victoria Times Colonist – June 1, 2011: Desperate families feel options for disabled children closing
MAY 2011
- CTV News – May 31, 2011: Special needs youth waitlisted as funding lags
- Victoria Times Colonist – May 30, 2011: Support chopped for vulnerable adults
- Yahoo News – May 27, 2011: NDP says cuts to health coverage hurting low-income disabled people in BC
- Vancouver Sun – May 26, 2011: Parents financially burdened as disabled become adults
- Channel A News – May 26, 2011: Government cut or change?
- Metro News – May 25, 2011: No place to go: caring for the mentally disabled
- Burnaby News Leader – May 24, 2011: Burnaby youth left high and dry by CLBC: MLA Corrigan
- The Canadian Press – May 23, 2011: What happens if I’m not around? mother of autistic teenager asks
- The Canadian Press – May 23, 2011: Quicklist of waiting times for services for those with disabilities
- The Canadian Press – May 22, 2011: Parents demand better care than institutions can provide for vulnerable
- Victoria Times Colonist – May 19, 2011: Families vent fury at agency for disabled
- Burnaby Now – May 18, 2011: Burnaby MLAs spar over disabled constituent’s future
- Global TV News – May 18, 2011: Health care funding (See 2nd story in News Hour video archive)
- Vancouver Sun – May 18, 2011: Concern grows that BC Liberals’ family focus is only lip service
- Victoria Times Colonist – May 15, 2011: Families first must include disabled
- Vancouver Sun – May 13, 2011: BC Liberals sorely lacking accountability – Premier Christy Clark and her hand-picked minister Harry Bloy need to shape up
- Victoria Times Colonist – May 7, 2011: Government forgetting vulnerable disabled
- Victoria Times Colonist – May 5, 2011: New Minister upsets disabled support group
- Chilliwack Times – May 5, 2011: Help may be coming – Bloy says revenues must increase before more autism funding available
- Kamloops Daily News – May 2, 2011: Family wants better care for autistic son
APRIL 2011
- Chilliwack Times – April 29, 2011: Setting them up for the future
- 24 Hours News – April 28, 2011: Disabled sister refussed funding in BC
- Victoria Times Colonist – April 27, 2011: Help is available for those in need
- Chilliwack Times – April 26, 2011: For many parents of autistic children, finding help means finding detours around the roadblocks
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