Posted On: Thursday, August 13th, 2026
PAN-PLDI (Positive Leadership Development Institute) will be hosting an in-person Communications Training Weekend in Vancouver, Friday November 6th to Sunday November 8th 2026! The training will take place at the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel (1180 W Hastings St.) over three days at a pace to support learning and connection. Day 1: Friday… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Written by Marc Seguin Every summer, rainbow flags appear across Canada. Streets fill with parades, festivals, drag performances, community gatherings, and celebrations of queer joy. Pride Season offers a visible reminder of how far 2SLGBTQIA+ communities have come in the fight for recognition, equality, and human rights. But what happens after the parade ends and… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
On Thursday, September 17th from 9:30 to 11:00 AM PT, PAN and CanHepC will be co-hosting a webinar to share key findings from the BC Hepatitis Elimination What We Heard Report (also available here along with other provincial reports) and create space for dialogue about what those findings mean in practice. The session… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, June 29th, 2026
Happy Pride Season! Across Canada, Pride Season officially takes place from June to September; when 2SLGBTQIA+ people and their allies come together to highlight the resilience, celebrate the talent, and recognize their communities’ contributions. Although special attention is put on the Pride during the summer months, they happen throughout the year in many communities…. Read more »
Posted On: Friday, June 19th, 2026
Written by Emily Taylor-Lariviere Books are more than just entertainment — they train us in the art of being human. When we read, hear, or watch stories we are practicing empathy and expanding the ways we can emotionally understand one another. In honour of National Indigenous Month and Day 2026, I’d like to take some… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, June 9th, 2026
For added information, visit BC Government Your Voice page PharmaCare regularly reviews drugs to decide whether to cover them. PharmaCare considers the drug’s safety, how well it works, how much it costs, and how it compares to other, similar drugs. Another consideration is input from people with experience using the product under review and/or with… Read more »
Posted On: Tuesday, May 26th, 2026
Thrive is a project led by PAN in partnership with a team of peer leaders, researchers, service providers, and public health partners. The Thrive project focuses on improving STBBI outcomes for people who use drugs, including those who have experienced criminalization and/or incarceration in smaller urban, rural, and remote (SURR) communities around BC. One of… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 30th, 2026
From April 23-26, the 35th annual Canadian Association of HIV Research (CAHR) conference was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, “Under open skies: Rising to meet unprecedented challenges in the HIV response.” Hundreds of conference attendees, including people living with HIV, community-based organizations, researchers, academics and allies from across the country gathered for Canada’s premier HIV-focused event… Read more »
Posted On: Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
Research and evaluation both offer opportunities for learning and community building in meaningful ways. We see research and evaluation like two different trees with different origins that are intertwined in methods and analysis yet also separate in what they can tell us. We see this relationship as beneficial to both evaluation and research. Read more about… Read more »
Posted On: Monday, April 27th, 2026
You are invited to join a virtual capacity building event on Thursday, May 21 from 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM Pacific Time to hear from community-based and peer-led sex work organizations as well as the HIV legal network to gain a landscape view of sex work in BC in 2026. Registration is at the bottom… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
Skills for better community conversations Since 2006, the Positive Leadership Development Institute has delivered its Core “Who Am I As a Leader?” training. Later, it expanded to deliver its Communications and Governance training modules. Now, PLDI is excited to tell you about the launch of its newest training module: Facilitation. In this article we will… Read more »
Posted On: Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
April 14th will mark the 10th anniversary of the Province of B.C.’s declaration of a public health emergency due to the poisoned drug supply. We are all called upon to remember the 19,000 people who have died from the toxic drug supply since 2014 – and to reflect on the reality that these were preventable… Read more »
