Joseph Segal, president of Kingswood Capital, on why he and his wife, Rosalie, chose to donate $12 million to a new mental-health and addiction treatment centre at Vancouver General Hospital.

01.26.2015 Joseph Segal on donating $12 million for mental-health care

Angel Strehlen, a health-care support worker, on the stigma and fear she encountered while helping her son, diagnosed with schizophrenia, access mental-health services in Vancouver.

10.29.2014 Angel Strehlen on mental-illness stigma

Chris Trotchie of Surrey describes what it feels like for him to spend time in solitary confinement. He was interviewed on the phone from North Fraser Pretrial Centre on his first morning out after one month held in administrative segregation.

09.26.2014 Chris Trotchie on one month in solitary confinement

Edmonton Institution inmate Chris Brazeau describes his time in solitary confinement. Story: bit.ly/1CM5rcq .

02.20.2014 Edmonton Institution inmate Chris Brazeau on solitary confinement

Listen to Travis Lupick on CBC Radio's On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko talk about rising numbers of overdose deaths, harm reduction, and the suggestion that the government's response has been "nothing but criminally irresponsible".

09.01.2016 Travis Lupick on CBC Radio with Gloria Macarenko: B.C. overdose deaths

18.08.06 Travis Lupick on CKNW w/ Jon McComb: B.C. overdose deaths

Travis Lupick is an award-winning journalist based in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the author of "Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction." He works as a staff reporter for the Georgia Straight newspaper and has also written about drug addiction, harm reduction, and mental health for the Toronto Star and Al Jazeera English, among other outlets. For his reporting on Canada’s opioid crisis, Lupick received the Canadian Association of Journalists’ prestigious Don McGillivray award for best overall investigative report of 2016 and two 2017 Jack Webster awards for excellence in B.C. journalism. For "Fighting for Space," he received the 2018 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. He has also worked as a journalist in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Bhutan, Peru, and Honduras. Follow him on Twitter: @tlupick.