Fight back; these cuts do lasting harm
Times Colonist (Victoria)
Oct 2 2009 
By: Jody Paterson

I've kept a rough list of the B.C. programs and services lost as a result of government cuts this fall. Maybe there's still nothing on the list that affects your family, but the odds are getting slimmer all the time.

A remarkably broad swath of British Columbians will be affected by the funding cuts being carried out by the provincial government and its five health authorities right now.

The cuts are coming fast and furious in all directions, with neither a plan nor an understanding at any level of what it's all going to mean when the dust settles. Without a word of public discussion, vital social programs and supports that British Columbians have counted on for years are vanishing.

Our province will end up wearing the scars of these cuts for decades. We need to shake ourselves out of our respective silos and make it stop….

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