Island Voices – Island Talk

A Reminder: Subsidy to Pay MSP Premiums Available for Low-Income Seniors

Victoria – With the January 1st increase to MSP Premiums, British Columbia’s Seniors Advocate, Isobel Mackenzie, is urging seniors to check if they are eligible for full or partial payment of their monthly MSP Premium. “Some seniors are paying $900 per year for their MSP and many may qualify for a full or partial subsidy of…

“The Act of Doing Nothing is Really Quite Something”

We live in a culture of doing.   We are on constant full throttle, multitasking, carrying on four different conversations at once, thoughts flying a hundred miles an hour.  And all this busyness is a wonderful coping mechanism for not dealing with or looking at the things in our lives that need shifting.  I hear so…