In trying economic times, British Columbia Finance Minister Colin Hansen has made a gesture that BC’s provincial government is committed to putting more resources into children and families. Instead of purchasing himself a new pair of shoes—a pre-budget tradition for BC Finance Ministers—Colin Hansen decided to buck the trend and purchase 100 shoes for needy  […]

By all accounts, Billy didn’t stand much a chance. He grew up in a troubled home: His father, both a drug addict and alcoholic, was physically abusive to him, his siblings, and his mother. He was forced at far too young an age to protect his mother from his father’s outbursts, to be the adult  […]