Toby Hinton

Hinton Hits Home

The graphic videos and photographs that accompanied Sgt. Toby Hinton’s presentation at the January 2013 meeting had many members covering their eyes.  Striking images, many from his Odd Squad Productions, portrayed the trauma that drugs have on the physical appearance of the addicts that Toby meets daily on his beat through Vancouver’s Down Town East…

Toby Hinton

Video: This Cop’s Gun

Sergeant Toby Hinton — beat cop, producer/director, judo instructor, lecturer and co-founder of Odd Squad Productions (OSP) will be speaker at the first meeting of the new year on Tuesday 2 January. His work on the Vancouver Police Department’s (VPD) Drug Education and Enforcement Team as well as leadership in OSP, a non-profit charitable organization…

Arthur Black

Arthur Black Headlines Annual Meeting

If you are unfamiliar with the photo at left, you will surely  recognize the distinctive voice that hosted Basic Black from 1983 to 2003 on CBC radio. According to his webpage, Arthur Black “guarantees belly laughs or your money refunded” so….get ready for a side-splitting meeting. Weird Houses and Weird Wheels, on the Life TV…

MV Africa Mercy

Mercy Ships

The National Director of Mercy Ships Canada, Tim Maloney, is soft-spoken but absolutely passionate about his subject.  He started his talk at the October meeting by saying that he lives his life according to the following axiom: have hope, take risks and seek harmony in all things.  He and Don Stephens, the founder of Mercy…