Lace it up for kids
Robson Reading Series with Dr. Gabor Mate
For over ten years Gabor Maté has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, schizophrenia, mental ill-ness, Hepatitis C, HIV and, in many cases, all four. But if Dr. Maté's patients are at the far end of the spectrum, how many of us are also struggling with addiction?
Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, work, food, sex, gambling and excessive inappropriate spending: what is amiss with our lives that we seek such self-destructive ways to comfort ourselves? And why is it so difficult to stop these habits, even as they threaten our health, jeopardize our relationships and corrode our lives?
Location: The Lillooet Room (301) at the Chapman Learning Commons
ISSA presents
Ψintergrate
IntSci's 1st Annual Winter Dance
Time: Friday Oct 17th, 9pm
Location: Canvas Lounge 99 Powell Street Downtown
Tickets on Sale now!!!
See IntSci Office (LSK 464) or see any ISSA exec for tickets!
Join our facebook group at:
http://www.facebook.com/inbox/#/event.php?eid=33858377044&ref=mf
Also check out the UBC Events website for adding the event to your calendar:
http://www.calendar.events.ubc.ca/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo
Announcement
Criag Mewis, our Sports representative is looking for people to join the ISSA Urban Challenge, Gladiator, Storm the wall and other event teams. If you are interested, please email Craig at craig@ubcissa.com
Keep checking the website for future info.
Welcome '08 BBQ
The IntSci Student association (ISSA) want to officially Welcome you back to the new school year with an outdoor BBQ.
This will be a great chance for you to reacquaint with old friends, meet new, other fascinating IntSci students, as well a perfect opportunity to chat with your mentor!
There will be free food and drinks, Great door prizes, plus music and entertainment.
When: 12:30 -2 P.M. Sept 16th 2008
Where: LSK Front Lawn + IntSci Lounge
B.C. drug injection site legal, court rules
In a surprise ruling, the court supported Vancouver's experimental supervised injection clinic and halted federal attempts to close the facility.
Judge Ian Pitfield said Insite should be allowed to remain open for a year even without a federal exemption from current drug laws.
ISSA had organized the INSITE Conference on Thursday, March 6th 2008, which was a great initiative towards getting the limelight on INSITE`s achievement, and how politics had manipulated and suppressed the scientific research done on the effectiveness on INSITE.
More information at http://www.communityinsite.ca/
News Source: National Post - Wednesday, May 28th 2008
Archived 2007-2008 events are here.
For more information about ISSA, and it`s upcoming events, keep checking www.ubcissa.com .





