Parents can help kids head back to school on the right foot

If you're a parent, you can do a lot to help your children get the best possible start to school this September. You can prepare them for the first day, help them be safe and healthy, and even reinforce their study habits by doing your homework - paying bills, balancing your chequebook or immersing yourself in a book - while they do theirs. [read more]

School start-up supplement doubled

The new school year can be an exciting time, but it’s also an expensive time for families – particularly those on income assistance. That’s why the Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance has doubled the school start-up supplement this year to help families on assistance with the cost of back-to-school supplies. [read more]

If you’ve ever tried for months to find a job with no success, you’ll appreciate the value of the new B.C. Employment Program for people on income assistance. It provides personal job coaching and other support – to develop an eye-catching resume, to practise and perfect interview skills, to upgrade skills – that offers new hope to 15,000 British Columbians a year. [read more]

Better health found in e-library

Your doctor will never set foot inside this library. Researchers and health-care students will never rifle through its stacks of scholarly papers. But that's just fine with the people and organizations behind this collection of more than 14 million articles and abstracts, which is improving care for patients by bringing the most up-to-date knowledge to health professionals by way of their computers. [read more]