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‘Write me soon. Stay safe’: A story of Canada’s opioid crisis, told in letters from prison - The Globe and Mail

Mr. Daniels's full name was Albert Joseph Daniels. His Cree name was Little Buffalo that Runs Against the Herd. His mother and sisters called him Manie – little man – because he was the only boy in the family. Story continues below advertisement He was torn away from his home on Saskatchewan's Peepeekisis First Nation to be educated in church-run residential schools, emerging scarred by sexual and physical abuse. For years, he would cross the street to avoid passing a Catholic church. A skilled outdoorsman who liked to fish for pike and hunt deer, beaver, bear and moose, he fell into a pattern of drinking, drug taking and fighting that kept him behind bars for most of his adult life. Pictures in an album show Mr. Daniels as an adult; a tattoo on Ms. Barber's back, below, shows him as a child. Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail Moira Barber, his common-law wife for 13 years, met him when she was dealing drugs in Guelph, Ont., and needed someone to collect money for her. She asked for the hardest, meanest dude in town. But Mr. Daniels had another side, Ms. Barber says. He was a keen artist who sometimes drew tattoos for a living. He loved roughhousing with her grandchildren, rolling around with them gleefully until the long hair that stretched down his back was a tangled mess. Mr. Kell grew up in London, Ont., 90 minutes down the 401 highway from Mr. Daniels. He started using drugs when he was a teenager. Before long, he was dealing cannabis and injecting hard stuff. As he puts it now, he would keep using until he ended up in the back of a police car. Between some 20 incarcerations, he tried over and over to get clean. He suffered several overdoses, coming close to death. In Spencer Kell's dining room, angel and devil portraits drawn by Mr. Daniels hang behind him. Blair Gable Mr. Kell and Mr. Daniels forged their friendship during two stints sharing a cell at Maplehurst. On the range at "the Hurst," they won resp...
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-write-me-soon-stay-safe-a-story-of-canadas-opioid-crisis-told-in/

Doug Ford's office calls Randy Hillier's allegations 'outright lie' - CTV News

I didn't feel that I could speak," she said, adding that she believed too much power was centralized within the premier's office. "I'm not the only one that thinks that and I'm glad that people are starting to see it." NDP legislator Taras Natyshak wrote Ontario Provincial Police Interim Commissioner Gary Couture on Monday, calling on the service to investigate Hillier's allegations of illegal and unregistered lobbying. "These, among other allegations disclosed in the letter, are disturbing, first-hand indications that illegal activities may have taken place, or may be ongoing," he said. Interim Liberal leader John Fraser called on Hillier to come forward and provide more information on his allegations to province's integrity commissioner. Green party Leader Mike Schreiner said the Tory caucus has now lost two members who stood up for their constituents and were punished for doing so. "We're elected to represent our constituents, put our constituents first, not to be a member of a high-priced pom pom squad for the premier," he said. Let's block ads! (Why?)...
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/doug-ford-s-office-calls-randy-hillier-s-allegations-outright-lie-1.4342262

Bane, Jean Hypes - NRVN News

Jean Price Hypes Bane has departed this life to go to her final home with the Lord. Born October 19, 1925 in the family home in the Sinking Creek Valley of Craig County, VA, Jean was the only daughter of Laura Beatrice Trenor and James Watson Hypes. She graduated from Maywood High School and then earned a BA degree in Mathematics from Radford State Teachers College and an MEd in Counseling from Radford College. Jean began a life-long career with the school systems. She taught math at Covington High School and Pearisburg High School where the Class of 1960 captured a piece of her heart as a special group of students. She finished the last twenty-four years of her career as a guidance counselor at Giles High School in Pearisburg, VA. She married William Doak Bane, Sr. of Pearisburg, VA on August 14, 1948; they had seventy fulfilling years of marriage. They were blessed with two children and a life-long career together of remodeling the old family home at Cedar Grove Farm. Jean had a rich and active church life beginning with her acceptance of Jesus Christ as her Savior at Old Bethel Methodist Church in Sinking Creek, Craig County. After her marriage she served in numerous roles as a member of Walkers Cr...
https://nrvnews.com/bane-jean-hypes/

Bereaved Families of Ontario - Cornwall to close - Standard Freeholder

We are no longer able to operate the office unless we got some miraculous funding between now and May 31," said Gisele Roy, program co-ordinator.The inevitability of death is an awful thing to think about, which is why people are pretty good at putting it out of their minds almost all of the time. It's a defence mechanism that allows everyone to live their lives without being in constant state of existential dread, or obsessing about how they would go on if one of their parents, spouse, friends or even their children died.Being able to put such thoughts aside is likely good for everyone's mental wellbeing. But that intentional blindness to something that will impact everyone eventually likely did not help the organization dedicated to helping people deal with those impacts."We are getting overlooked. Grief and death are not popular topics. People want to avoid talking about that," said Roy with a rueful chuckle. "We have sent out so many applications (for grants); we've contacted service clubs, insurance companies, legal firms about all kinds of applications and all kinds of activities and fundraisers."There were many other factors that behind the closure, ranging from a Facebook fundraiser that only attracted one donor, to a lack of government support, and even Scotiabank's decision to end its years-long program of sponsoring charitable events by promising to match donations. The beginning of the end seems to have come in late 2014, when the United Way / Centraide of SD&G decided it would no longer be funding the group as it was increasingly using the funding to cover operating costs, not programs.Even at the time, there was worry the decision would cause BFO to close. But it didn't; BFO managed to scrape by for several years through cost-cutting efforts, the occasional good fundraiser such as the Ghost Walk, and the dedication of its volunteers.Related Ghost Walk For Charity raised $16,500 this year Bereaved Families of Ont-Cornwall lights up Memory Tree Ghost Walk for Charity in Cornwall is bigger and better In doing so, it continued to offer its telephone helpline, its one-on-one support sessions, a lending library, and multiple support groups out of its small Montreal Road office. The impact of its work could be at its annual Christmas Memory Tree at Cornwall Square mall, which never failed to attract hundreds of people. But they also never managed to recover from the loss of the United Way funding.Roy said no one is to blame for the si...
https://www.standard-freeholder.com/news/local-news/bereaved-families-of-ontario-cornwall-to-close/wcm/7d4a2b91-abc5-4447-8394-67dd70513b13

Becoming a seafarers' chaplain was not exactly his retirement plan - CatholicPhilly.com

It’s only three years that I’ve been doing this, but it feels like 10 years — in a good way,” Deacon Athaide, 69, told The B.C. Catholic, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Vancouver, while on board a Japanese coal carrier at Westshore Terminals in Delta. The two dozen crew members on this ship are from the Philippines and have spent months away from their families, religious customs and country. “For the seafarers, it’s a paradox. In order to look after their families, they leave their families,” the deacon said. They may make anywhere from US$12,000 to 150,000 a year, but even those on the lower end of the scale are grateful for the job, since it’s often more than they would make back at home. Being stuck on a ship thousands of miles from home, and at times waiting an entire month to set foot on land, is a daily challenge for seafarers. Deacon Athaide boards these vessels to offer prayers, rosaries, ship blessings, a listening ear, and a free ride out of the port to a nearby mall or church. As a deacon, he can’t celebrate Mass or hear confessions, but he can invite a priest on board, or bring Communion and lead a service. He also drops off day-old treats donated from a local bakery and, on special occasions, like Christmas, gives away thousands of gift-wrapped hats, scarves, jackets and chocolate bars. Deacon Dileep Athaide, second from right, a chaplain from the Archdiocese of Vancouver, British Columbia, chats with crew members aboard a Japanese coal ship March 15, 2019. (CNS photo/...
http://catholicphilly.com/2019/03/news/world-news/becoming-a-seafarers-chaplain-was-not-exactly-his-retirement-plan/