David Salzano, Senior Compliance Officer with the BC Securities Commission, delivered a strong message to all members who attended the March meeting: know yourself and know your advisor. He offered a list of fraud warning signs and suggested that doing your own research (into the advisor and the offering) was key. “If you don’t understand…
Originally retired to Shuswap at Eagle Bay, Joyce & Florian finally saw the light after 14 years there and moved to Nanoose in 2008. Prior to retirement, they farmed in the Virden area of Manitoba for 25 years and then owned their own kitchen/bath business for seven years. Florian is an avid golfer and Joyce…
Our February 2013 speaker, Lori Amdam from Vancouver Island Health Authority, had attendees’ rapt attention as she described the differences between delirium and dementia. In her comparison of the two “Ds”, she illustrated how distinctly different the two are by highlighting the key difference: time. Delirium is a sudden change in cognition, function and behaviour,…
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…
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…