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January, 2012

• B.C. Liberals' patronizing approach to helping developmentally disabled adults is hard to budge, report says - By Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun January 23, 2012
• Helping people with developmental disabilities - By Christy Clark, Vancouver Sun January 24, 2012
• New funding to CLBC - CBC early edition, Interview with Doug Woollard & Faith Bodnar January 20
• Developmental Disabilities gets boost CBC Radio on the Island - Interview with Faith Bodnar, January 19
• Adam Stirling's Comment - CFAX 1070 January 20th, 2012
• Premier pledges $40 million for developmentally disabled - Times Colonist January 20
• Clark's $40m response - The Province January 20
• Community Living groping in the dark - Vancouver Sun January 20
• Money for CLBC may not be enough CKNW(AM980) Shane Woodford 1/20/2012
• Beleaguered agency gets $40M overhaul METRO VANCOUVER January 20
• CLBC Gets $40 Million to Fix Care January 19
• $40M not enough for Community Living Canadian Press - Jan 19
• $40-million spending hike announced for disabled adults Globe and Mail Jan. 19
• CLBC funding: small step in the right direction - BCGEU Press Release: 19 Jan '12
• Families 'lost faith: ' Dix' - The Province, January 16
• NDP demands answers about CLBC reviews - News 1130, January 15

December

• Voice of BC with Vaughn Palmer - Protecting the Vulnerable, December 8, 2011
• 20 Memorable stories of 2011 - Victoria Times Colonist, December 31, 2011
• How Premier Clark can fix Community Living BC - Vancouver Sun, December 23, 2011
• Advocate wants service access rights for disabled - CTV, December 17, 2011
• Lindsay Kines's favourite: Community Living B.C. forced to make changes - Times Colonist, December 17, 2011

November

• Les Leyne: Official CLBC line was simply false - By Les Leyne, Times Colonist November 26, 2011

• CLBC adrift since core values were stripped by legislation - By Lorraine Ward, Vancouver Sun November 25, 2011

• CLBC only acts under media spotlight - By Julie Flatt, Times Colonist November 23, 2011

• CLBC needs more help than a flashlight - By Elizabeth James, Special to North Shore News November 23, 2011

• Community care crisis demands a resolution - By Faith Bodnar, The Daily News November 19, 2011

• CLBC admits losing sight of core values - But critics say beleaguered agency has no answers on how to tackle its failures - By Cassidy Olivier, The Province November 20, 2011

• Agency admits to pressure tactics - By Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist November 19, 2011

• CLBC admits it pushed too hard to get clients out of group homes - By Lindsay Kines, timescolonist.com November 18, 2011 12:06 PM

• Community Living B.C. board reconfirms organization lost its way - BY JONATHAN FOWLIE, Global TV, VANCOUVER SUN Friday, November 18, 2011 12:00 AM

• Government expected to release Community Living report on potential changes to organization - By Jonathan Fowlie, Vancouver Sun November 18, 2011

• Home agency sues government - By Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist November 17, 2011 7:25 AM

• CLBC review teams increase support in majority of closed complaints - By Jonathan Fowlie, Vancouver Sun November 14, 2011

• We are all responsible for the treatment of the disabled - Vancouver Sun November 14, 2011

• Light must shine on CLBC failures - By Dawn Steele, Times Colonist November 11, 2011

• A history of Community Living - By Tracey Young, Burnaby Now November 11, 2011

• Why we should be concerned about community living - By Paul Malette, Times Colonist November 10, 2011

• CLBC slow to admit underfunding - By Times Colonist (Victoria) November 10, 2011

• Developmentally disabled teen stuck in jail because of lack of services: watchdog - By Lindsay Kines, Postmedia News November 10, 2011

• CLBC must rediscover its roots to improve - By Anne Nikon, Times Colonist November 9, 2011

• Ex-Chair sounded funding alarm - By Denise Ryan, Vancouver Sun November 9, 2011

• CLBC board chair hopes publicity results in money - By Lois Hollstedt, Vancouver Sun November 7, 2011

• CLBC fiasco gives Clark's family agenda big black eye - By Keith Baldrey, Special to Surrey Now November 8, 2011
  

• Disabled teen's mother gets hotline runaround - By Denise Ryan, Vancouver Sun November 7, 2011

•  Treatment of disabled saddens public - By Dawn Steele, Vancouver Sun November 7, 2011 Re: Community Living BC series, ongoing

•  Treatment of disabled saddens public - By Anita Dadson, Vancouver Sun November 7, 2011

•  Treatment of disabled saddens public - By Karen Williams, Vancouver Sun November 7, 2011

• Family wins battle with government to keep group home open - By Lindsay Kines, timescolonist.com November 5, 2011

•  Cuts to Community Living BC are disturbing, eye-opening - By Tessa Nicholl, Vancouver Sun November 5, 2011

•  CLBC will pay $345,000 in severance to former CEO - By Lindsay Kines, Postmedia News November 5, 2011

•  NDP MLA Nicholas Simons visits Occupy Vancouver and discusses severance for Community Living B.C. CEO - By Matthew Burrows, November 5, 2011

•  CLBC stumbles demand independent review - By Paul Willcocks, Times Colonist November 5, 2011

•  The NDP are crying foul over a big severance package for the former CEO of CLBC. - CKNW - 11/4/2011

•  Families fear the worst as group homes close - Renee Bernard Nov 04, 2011 17:15:54 PM

• CLBC, government role needs external review - By Maria Squance, Times Colonist November 4, 2011

• Allegations in Sun story 'concerning,' minister says - By Jonathan Fowlie, Vancouver Sun November 4, 2011

• Confidence lost in CLBC, government - By Dawn Steele, Times Colonist November 4, 2011

• CLBC report rewritten to justify cuts - By Jonathan Fowlie, Vancouver Sun November 3, 2011

• Woman battling cancer must also fight for autistic son - By DENISE RYAN, Vancouver Sun November 2, 2011

• Family Turns to CTV for Help for Disabled Son - CTV news, Posted on November 2, 2011 by alee

• Mom's attempt to beat poverty on hold - By Denise Ryan, Vancouver Sun November 2, 2011

• Public inquiry needed to look into Community Living BC - By Michael J. Prince, Vancouver Sun November 2, 2011

• Her funding cut off, profoundly disabled 19-year-old has nowhere to go - By Denise Ryan, Vancouver Sun November 2, 2011

• Growing need for CLBC review - Times Colonist November 1, 2011

October

• Children's watchdog fears for young adults, By Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist October 23, 2011
• Disabled B.C. woman faces battle for government care, By Lindsay Kines, Postmedia News October 23, 2011
• BC social development ministry introduces new client support team, Denise Ryan, Vancouver Sun, Oct. 21, 2011
• Community Living B.C. ordered to stop paying bonuses, Lindsay Kines, Vancouver Sun, Oct. 21, 2011
• Community Living B.C. bonuses cut by minister, CBC News, Oct. 21, 2011
• Bonuses handed out to top executives at Community Living BC, Global BC, Oct. 21, 2011
• Clark admits more must be done, Lindsay Kines, Vancouver Sun, October 20, 2011
• Opinion: Mutiny was in the air during Liberal caucus, Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun, Oct. 21, 2011
• Government aware of CLBC's needs, says agency's interim head, Andrew MacLeod, the Tyee, October 19, 2011
• News Hour - Community Living problems, Global TV, Oct. 13, 2011
• Acute-care bed for Down syndrome patient costing $1,000 a day, Frank Luba, the Province, October 14, 2011
• Placement dispute keeps man with Down syndrome in hospital, Lindsay Kines, Vancouver Sun, Oct. 14, 2011
• CLBC Review is needed now, Times Colonist editorial, Oct. 7, 2011
• 2,800 with disabilities await help, Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist, Oct. 7, 2011
• B.C. government says almost 3,000 people with disabilities await more help, Canadian Press, Oct. 6, 2011
• Snag in the release of statistics outlining developmental-disability waiting list, Times Colonist, Lindsay Kines, Oct 4, 2011
• Still Waiting for Waitlists, Times Colonist, Lindsay Kines, Oct. 3, 2011

September

• Bloy's not the problem Times Colonist Editorial, September 28, 2011
• Disabled woman has provincial care funding approved By Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist, September 25, 2011
• Government stalling over disability data revealed By Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist September 23, 2011
• Families fight for services By Jennifer Moreau, Burnaby Now, September 23, 2011
• Hello Harry, get me a rewrite, Times Colonist Blog, September 23, 2011
  
• Bloy finally fesses up By Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist, September 16, 2011
• Disabled Hurt by Funding Crisis, Editorial by the Times Colonist, September 15, 2011
• Funding for special-needs adults falls short of target By Ian Austin, The Province September 15, 2011
• Community Living B.C. gets a $6M budget lift, by Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist, September 14, 2011.
• CKNW Radio call in show about CLBC Funding Crisis. Show begins at 33:50. Sept. 10, 2011. With guests Faith Bodnar, family member and advocate Andrew Latta and James Cavalluzzo (BCGEU).
• Jenny pays a price for becoming an adult. By Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist September 11, 2011
• Is Clark’s ‘families first’ refrain past its best before date? By Rod Mickleburgh, Globe and Mail, Sept. 8, 2011
• "Group home closures pass around residents like human batons": Letter by Beverly & Bill McCheyne and letter from Barbara Der Vancouver Sun September 6, 2011
• Community Living B.C. cuts cause pain, By Cheryl Chan, The Province September 6, 2011

August

• $70 million budget boost needed for developmentally disabled, advocates say Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist, August 31, 2011
• BC Families Scrambling to Find Housing for Developmentally Disabled Children CKNW Bill Good Show, August 31, 2011 (6:23 into clip)
• Advocates fear cutbacks put the disabled at risk CTV, August 30, 2011
• Family members decry closures of group homes Vancouver Sun, August 30, 2011
• A move they don't want to make Langley Times, August 19, 2011
• Developmentally disabled adults need housing solution, Vancouver Sun, August 17, 2011
• Social service cuts hurt most vulnerable, Times Colonist, August 16, 2011
• Group home closures shock, horrify families Vancouver Sun, August 12, 2011
• The crisis in B.C.'s community living sector
  Letter by Alana Hendren on behalf of the Community Living Action Group, Vancouver Sun August 11, 2011

July

• 19 and nowhere to go, North Shore News, July 24, 2011
• Families struggle with funding for community living programs and services, Abbotsford News, July 12, 2011

June

• Disabled face more cuts ahead, Times Colonist, June 14, 2011
• Sooke Mom adds voice to critical chorus, Sooke News Mirror, June 8, 2011
• Desperate families feel options for disabled children closing Times Colonist, June 1, 2011

May

• Special needs youths waitlisted as funding lags CTV News, May 31, 2011
• Support Chopped for Vulnerable Adults- Victoria Times Colonist May 29, 2011
• No place to go: Caring for the mentally disabled
  Canadian Press video 25 May 2011
• Parents financially burdened as disabled become adultsVancouver Sun letter May 26, 2011
• Disabled youth left high and dry by CLBC: MLA Corrigan, Burnaby Now May 24
• 'What happens if I'm not around?' mother of autistic teenager asks
• By Michael Tutton, The Canadian Press, May 24, 2011
• QuickList of waiting times for services for those with intellectual disabilities
  Canadian Press - May 23, 2011
• QuickFacts for story on care of those with intellectual disabilities
  The Canadian Press – May 22, 2011
• Funding agency for disabled attacked for cuts to programs. Vancouver Sun May 19, 2011
• Global News May 18, Report on CLBC Funding Crisis(Near beginning)
• Burnaby MLAs spar over disabled constituent's future. Burnaby Now May 18, 2011
• Families first must include disabled
  Times Colonist May 15, 2011
• Opinion: B.C. Liberals sorely lacking accountability
  Vancouver Sun May 13, 2011
• Disabled sister refused funding in B.C.
  24 Hours April 28, 2011