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mmalone0 · 7 years ago

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Initial Impressions

So I have been asked to start a blog to record how my exchange goes by the Dean of my homeschool. To give you all some background, I am studying a Bachelor of Design in Graphics through the Academy of Design Australia. I have come to Vancouver, Canada to spend two quarters studying at La Salle college, which used to be the Art Institute. This is my first time blogging so I hope it doesn't become too boring.

My exchange here was necessary for me because my Permanent Residency card was about to run out and I need to renew it. The exchange all came together really quickly and I didn't have a full two weeks to get everything together. I finished my exams on the 21st of June and then left Australia on the 1st of July to Arrive in Canada the same day (time travel!).

I am lucky to have lots of friends in this country because I used to live here for many years. My friend Katie picked me up from the airport, late as usual for her, and brought me back to her place where she had a free room while she was waiting to find a new room mate. I wasn't planning to live with Kate, because the rent was a little higher than I thought I could make work, but when I got here and remembered how beautiful the view is, I couldn't say no to living here. So finding a place to live short notice became the easy task!

Since I arrived on Canada day, my first night was celebrating and fireworks all over the city which we could watch from the deck outside my room! Canada was celebrating me getting back home. Not really but it sounds good! After my first night I had a day or two to settle in because the semester started on July 3rd, but my first class was the Tuesday the day after.

Coming from the Academy where all classes are between 9am and 6pm (for the longer ones), I have class Tuesday which is scheduled from 6:30pm to 10:30pm. My instructor is super nice and let us decide to have the class from 6-10 instead so that we can leave a little earlier. My other two classes are 1:30-5:30pm on Thursday and Friday. I like having classes so spread but it does make it harder to find a job which will work around that.

My classes are Art Direction, Ethics, and Foundations of Electronic Production. I only have three this quarter which is nice for workload but I don't know what my next quarter will look like. Before I get into describing my classes, I will tell you about the other struggles. Finding a job was tougher because of my schedule. It took me about three weeks, which has eaten away all of my measly savings, but I am working at a company which I worked for previously. My first day is today! It could have been a week ago but I had a big project which I wanted the day to prepare for.

Ok, so the classes! After my first class in each of them I was panicking! I thought that the workload seemed massive and the amount of work that we would be producing would be very crazy, but the stages are more manageable than my first impression. I also thought that I was very far behind the rest of my classmates when I started because of the discussions and the way they seemed to shrug off the pressure. My first submission was the very next week and I was embarrassed to show my work, but I soon discovered that I was not at all behind and I shouldn’t have worried at all!

My school in Australia is very theory based and we generally have one main assignment brief each class, each semester. We learn a lot and then at the end of the semester we have exams to test what we have learned. Here, only one of my classes has an exam and its a mid-term! We create a lot more work here and its all to create portfolio pieces! Another comparison I have is that my instructors in Australia talk a lot about how competitive the industry is over there because of the large number of Designers. Over here, the industry is huge and designers are in demand which is amazing for me because I plan to move here at the completion of my degree!

OK! Art Direction! This is the first class of my week each week. This class we learn about being an Art Director. My first assignment was to direct a photographer to create three magazine covers to match a current food magazine. I chose the magazine Prosto, which is a Russian food magazine, and has a wonderful messy cover style. I encourage you to look it up and I will add my covers as soon as I can figure out how! We had to create our covers as mockups using found images from the internet to show to our Photographer, which was another member of our class who we chose by picking names from a hat. We had a few in class exercises about photographing food and consistency. The photoshoot was to take up a whole class and we had to bring in the food we were to photograph along with all our backgrounds, props, and of course our camera and any gear we needed to be the photographer for someone else. My photoshoot went amazingly well and I got the exact shots I wanted because I prepared really well and I had a fantastic photographer! That all gets handed in today for class.

Ethics is a theory class. We talk about ethics, morals, and how they should influence decisions. It is the most boring of my classes on paper but its actually a really interesting class and the discussions are really engaging. This week is my mid-term and then it’s all small written papers and one final large written essay. I should mention now that in all classes we are graded on participation as well as our work, which means that we have to participate in discussions and show up on time to every class.

My final class each week is Foundations of Electronic production. This is the class which I was warned about because it has the highest workload but so far I am finding it comfortable. My first assignment here is to rebrand a destination or town. I have chosen Nelson, BC where I used to live. We have a lot that we have to create, but the largest part of the assignment is to create the branding guidelines. We have to make this professional and well written which will be the hardest part. The other assignments for this class will also be big. This class has a lot of in class work which needs to be created within the small amount of time we have in class. This adds a lot of pressure but helps to generate ideas quickly which we can refine later at home for the homework.

All of the instructors that I have here are amazing! They are very helpful and understanding. The campus is so much nicer than the temporary campus that the Academy has. There is also a lots of interesting courses offered on the campus, which is neat to look around. Music production, Culinary, Video game production just to name some of them.

All in all, I’m having a good time and learning a lot. Living with Kate is super awesome! We have been floating on a small lake a couple of weekends, we watch baseball, have poker nights, and nights in watching TV. There is a lot of good options for food and many which are really cheap! Living in the city, means I can find just about anything I want and usually pretty cheap. I’m getting lots of sun, which is fixing my vitamin D deficiency, and I’m getting my Canadian life back on track. I will try to keep this blog updated as much as possible with impressions and work!

Thanks for reading

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erraticfairy · 5 years ago

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Podcast: Family on the Run: A Story of Delusional Disorder

When Pauline Dakin was 10 years old, her mother took the family into hiding to escape imminent danger. Fifteen years later, Pauline was told that they were on the run from the mafia.

At first, accepting of this explanation, Pauline’s doubts grew until she could no longer deny the truth: that there was no danger and she was being misled. Join us as Pauline shares how she came to this heartbreaking conclusion.

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Pauline Dakin is the bestselling author of Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood, a Canadian bestseller and winner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction.

For many years, Pauline was a trusted voice on health and medical issues as the national health reporter for CBC News. Her reporting and documentary work has been recognized with many regional, national, and international awards. She is a three-time recipient of fellowships from the National Press Foundation in Washington and is a fellow of the MIT/Knight Science Journalism program on medical evidence in Cambridge, Mass. She currently teaches journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax, N.S., Canada.

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Announcer: Welcome to the Psych Central Podcast, where each episode features guest experts discussing psychology and mental health in every day plain language. Here’s your host, Gabe Howard.

Gabe Howard: Hello, everyone and welcome to this week’s episode of the Psych Central Podcast. And today I will be talking with Pauline Dakin who is the bestselling author of Run Hide Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood which tells the true story of her mother’s misguided belief that their family was in constant danger. Her book also won the prestigious Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction last year. Pauline, welcome to the show.

Pauline Dakin: Thanks for having me, Gabe.

Gabe Howard: Well it’s an amazing story. Normally I say hello, thank you for being here, it’s wonderful, and we make pleasantries but I want to jump in. I became aware of you by reading I believe a New York Times article on your book and I just I absolutely had to know more. First off, can you tell us just maybe like a brief synopsis of what the book is about and then we’ll get into the details.

Pauline Dakin: Ok, well my brother and I grew up with some very strange things happening. Twice my family disappeared. So it was me, my mom, and my brother and twice we moved away without telling anybody and started a new life. And of course, my brother and I would always say why what’s going on with the why is everything always so secretive? Everything we were always told you can’t talk about this. Don’t talk about that. And the answer was always well when you’re older I’ll tell you. And then when I was 23 my mom and a longtime family friend named Stan Sears met me in a motel room halfway between where I was living in my mom was living and they sat me down and told me that the reason for all our strange behavior and disappearances was that we’d been on the run from the mafia and that my dad was involved in organized crime. So you know and it seemed like a very far fetched idea. You know why us and there was quite a complex explanation for that. That had to do with the fact that Stan Sears who was a United Church minister and a psychologist did a lot of counseling for an organization that dealt with family members of alcoholics and that he had counseled somebody who was involved in organized crime in the Vancouver waterfront. And that that was where it began that he came to the attention of the mob and then a variety of things came together that sort of connected my mother in with that. So a very complex story was still very hard to believe but I did believe that for some years.

Gabe Howard: The very first time that your family picked up and moved. How old were you.

Pauline Dakin: So that was the summer that I turned 10.

Gabe Howard: So your brother is even younger and you said it was your mom your brother and you and that your father was somehow involved. Was he concerned that you were fleeing from him how did he react to all of this.

Pauline Dakin: Yeah well my parents were divorced and my dad was alcoholic and there was a lot of legal conflict about his access to us. So the courts at some point had decided that it wasn’t safe for us to be with him. So there were issues around that. You know he. He was the kind of dad that you know back in the day dads weren’t as involved in parenting and I think he was kind of dad that was more interested in older kids and didn’t quite know what to do with the younger kids. So I know that he was concerned at some point but he didn’t really come looking for us for quite a while.

Gabe Howard: So your mom and your brother and you and the Family Minister when you were 10 years old abruptly left in the middle of the night and took off you were running. I mean they told you were running. This wasn’t like a planned move I assume.

Pauline Dakin: No. What happened was. And so it was the minister, Stan Sears, and his wife. So we were family friends and we often went camping together to families together. And so that’s how it started. We went on a camping trip cross country and when we arrived at our destination that’s when my brother and I were told we won’t be going home and you can’t tell anybody.

Gabe Howard: What, did they change your names or anything? I mean it seems so cloak and dagger.

Pauline Dakin: Yes. No names weren’t changed. And you know I think I often think about how connected the world is today that I can find anybody online.

Gabe Howard: Right. Right.

Pauline Dakin: But in those days it wasn’t so and nothing was computerized. So I guess there were not the same ways to trace people.

Gabe Howard: And that probably helped it. But what year are we talking here.

Pauline Dakin: So we’re talking about the mid 1970s and you know there were no cell phones. There was no Internet. It was a very different world.

Gabe Howard: So here you are you’re 10 years old and you’re starting over you’re starting a new life. You thought you were going camping but you left most of your stuff at your old place and now you’ve started a new. What was that like. Did life go on as normal for a while. I mean I imagine this was very shocking but did things just settle in. I mean a lot of things are shocking to kids you know.

Pauline Dakin: It was our normal in some strange way it became our normal and we became used to this. You know don’t talk about what our family is doing or where we’re going or what’s going on. I mean we always thought it was strange. We always tried to say you know what’s going on with our weird family. But yeah it just became kind of the thing that you would just sort of shrug and go there mom goes again. In other respects we had a very stable home. I know that sounds like a crazy thing to say but you know my mom had a beautiful Sunday dinner on the table every Sunday it was sacrosanct. You didn’t miss Sunday dinner. She played catch with my brother in the backyard after dinner every evening when he was trying out for the baseball team. We were up early before school to do drills for our math you know. So there was a lot of stability and support. And my brother and I have talked a lot about this and said there was never a moment that we didn’t feel loved and cared about. And I think that that’s very protective for kids. So even in the midst of all of this chaos that you know with these moves and other bizarre things going on there was some consistency and some sense of stability around being cared about.

Gabe Howard: And how long did this new life last before you moved again? And what was that move like? Was it in the middle of the night? Did you go camping again?

Pauline Dakin: No. So this time I was 13 so it had only we only stayed a few years. My brother was eleven. My mom said OK I’m we’re going to move again and I’m sorry that the way that happened last time and I won’t do that to you again. But it’s a secret you can’t tell. And so she was going to sell the house that we were living in and we just weren’t allowed to talk about where we were going. And so the house finally sold. And Stan and Sybil Sears, his wife, had already moved away a few months earlier and we were going to join them this time at the other end of the country so we’d gone from coast to coast now. And that I have to say that that was the most difficult move for me. But by far I was a 13 year old I had great friends. I loved my school. It just felt like it had become a good place for me. And then just to sort of get ripped away from that I found very hard. And I went to a new place that was a smaller community. It was a smaller town and in fact in the neighborhood that we moved to. Nobody could remember anybody moving into the neighborhood. It was none of the kids my age could remember anybody ever moving in. It was just you know one of those more small town places. So it was tough.

Gabe Howard: And the way that you make friends is by sharing details of your personal life. And this was expressly prohibited. Now all the kids at your new school are like Hey where are you from what are you doing here and you’re like.

Pauline Dakin: Yeah.

Gabe Howard: What was that like?

Pauline Dakin: Oh that was a huge issue for me because this was a town. It was had a pulp mill it you know it didn’t really have a lot of things to recommend it. At least the people who lived there didn’t think that. And you know I kind of agreed with them and so people would say well why would you ever move here. And I thought yeah but I wouldn’t have if it had been my choice. But you couldn’t say that and I said to my mother What am I supposed to say when they say well why would you ever move here. And she said just tell them you know that we wanted to live by the ocean again which just sounded like such a lame thing to say as a 13 year old we wanted to live by the ocean. It was very it was hard. And yes having a secret that you’re keeping is like putting a wall between you and everybody around you. And I didn’t really understand that until really I stopped keeping that secret. And suddenly I felt this huge relief and I could allow people to really know me. And so I was. My relationships improved dramatically as a result.

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Gabe Howard: So eventually you become an adult. Do you go off to university? You go off to? What happens to two adult Pauline?

Pauline Dakin: So yes I went off to university you know got my own place. I became a reporter and so I was a new very young reporter at the time I got this phone call from my mom. Hey I know that you’ve been very frustrated about all the secretiveness in our lives and so on. It’s time to tell you. So that’s what was going I was just about to graduate from university I’d been working part time for a newspaper as a reporter and I was about to start full time. And that’s when the call came and I learned this crazy story.

Gabe Howard: And here you are. You’re in a motel. Your mom is there. Stan is there. And the two of them together tell you about the danger the mob the running and just the whole dramatic story. What’s the first thing that went through your mind.

Pauline Dakin: Well the first thing was this can’t be true. But why would these two people who are that he was, Stan was like a dad to me. He was wonderful to us as kids because our dad was never around and so it was like this cannot be true. But these are two wonderful people who really care about us. They’re respected in the community they have responsible jobs. Why would they make this up? So it was just mind blowing to me and then they started saying hey do you remember the time that this happened? Remember the time that happened? And they started sort of putting these puzzle pieces together convincing me that this was true and you know you can, well. It was somewhat convincing. I mean I was still struggling with it but ultimately, I decided if I can’t believe these two people who have never been anything but trustworthy and supportive in my life then who could I ever believe. So I guess I decided to believe it despite the fact I really was struggling. My second thought was if this is true maybe I should go to Australia and try to get lost.

Gabe Howard: If it is true you’re potentially still in danger but if it’s not true your family lied to you for half of your childhood. So your choices are not great.

Pauline Dakin: Yes. Yes.

Gabe Howard: And one of the themes that sort of runs throughout your book is that you know your mom was not a bad person you love your mother very much Stan was not a bad guy you looked up to him and respected him and there’s no I’m going to ruin the ending for everybody.

Pauline Dakin: That’s OK.

Gabe Howard: They were not fleeing from crime the ending of this is not that they robbed a bank and we’re trying to outrun law enforcement. There was none of those things. They were good people who broke no laws who did nothing wrong but they had this belief that although not true impacted you very greatly.

Pauline Dakin: Yes that’s right.

Gabe Howard: And you’re trying to put this together. So you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place on what to believe but eventually you start trying to put this together and prove definitively about whether or not you’re in danger or about whether or not your mom is wrong. Can you talk about that a little bit.

Pauline Dakin: Yeah well I mean it just became harder and harder to continue the belief in this. And you know part of it was that my mother that Stan had gone inside so he had essentially disappeared into a secretive world that was kind of like a… a protective custody situation. But anyway is a very complex world and it was a big part of the story. And then my mother decided she was going to go inside and the big surprise was by the way Stan and I have been in love for years we’ve never done anything about it but civil has decided not to go inside. We want to be together and I’m just you know my head is spinning and eventually I reached the point that I just had to know I just had to know. And so I kind of did a sting where I mean the problem with a secretive thing is it’s very hard to prove something is true or not true because every time you say well what about this? Well, that’s a secret. So there’s no way

Gabe Howard: Right.

Pauline Dakin: To prove or disprove a secret. So I pretended my house had been broken into and I called my mother at a time. So Stan used to come out to visit her from inside and at a time I knew he was visiting her. I called her and said My house has been broken into what should I do. And she said I’ll call you right back. I’m going to talk to our friend. And of course you do you talk that way because your phone is probably bugged right. I hang up and I wait for her to call me back. And it was just excruciating. And then she called and she said yes. He says that two people have been picked up outside your home. They broke in. They were looking for certain things. They’d been following you. They had photographs of you. So you in all this crazy stuff. And in that moment I knew none of it was true because there hadn’t been a break in. So oh it was just like having the rug pulled out from under you. And so eventually I confronted them and they were very upset mostly because they were afraid that if I didn’t believe the story I would not take precautions to protect myself. And so it began a time that you know we still all loved each other very much. I still loved my mom. I don’t know. I was struggling more with Stan but but you know we were looking at each other from across this abyss of this story that they believe deeply and I could not any longer believe at all.

Gabe Howard: Now in that moment right before you did the sting Were you still open to the idea that it might be true. As soon as this thing was over you were 100 percent positive that everything was was a lie. Where were you the moments before you incorporated the sting.

Pauline Dakin: Yeah I think I’d been creeping up the spectrum towards disbelief for a long time. And by that time I guess I was probably about 90 percent sure it wasn’t true but I had to know because of everything that was at stake and for me to say definitively you’re not telling the truth to me it was you know an understanding that I was going to do terrible damage to some of the closest relationships in my life. My mom in particular.

Gabe Howard: And you did so after the sting you. You’ve sat down with your mom and you looked at her and you said Mom there was no break in. You told her the whole story. You know this is untrue. What happened then.

Pauline Dakin: Well she was very upset and you know how could I have done that. And now I you know I couldn’t be part of the Inside group of insiders you know it’s either you’re with us or against us kind of thing right. And now I might be in danger. And so on and I just said Well there is no particular danger and then I confronted Stan. We went back to where he was and confronted him together and he was very sad. His reaction was that he was very sad because now I was no longer part of this circle. And I had the sense and this has been borne out that you know this was always Stan story. He was you know there were letters that came from the what we called the weird world like the inside from people who had been involved in organized crime and arrested. You know I would receive letters from these people some of whom were supposedly family members of mine who’d been involved in or like on my dad’s side. And so you know they all this stuff always came through Stan. He was the arbiter of all information and all contact and so on and so I knew this was his story. And I guess my mother just sort of loved and had such regard for him that she just adopted his story. She couldn’t believe that he would ever lie.

Gabe Howard: And these letters were fake? Were they written by Stan? Made by Stan? I mean just.

Pauline Dakin: They had to have been there and how he had the time. There were hundreds of them.

Gabe Howard: Oh wow.

Pauline Dakin: And how he ever had the time to do that I don’t I can’t imagine the whole the whole thing is there’s still some real mysteries around the story.

Gabe Howard: That is incredible. So where are you now? Did the rift heal? Did you find a way to continue on? How did Stan react? What happened to you and your family after all of this?

Pauline Dakin: Well my brother and I got together and talked about how could we essentially rescue our mom from this situation and he went to the police and the police said she’s an adult not nobody’s being hurt. Nothing we can do. And so we just kept on keeping on. And you know I struggle my mom and I struggle a lot to maintain any kind of a relationship. Then I got married and had kids and so we just had this relationship where we agreed to disagree and not to talk about any of that stuff and if she raised it I just shut it down. I’m not talking about that. I don’t believe that. And she continued to worry about me and my brother and would we be OK. And then she got very sick. She’d had cancer twice and she had a recurrence of cancer. And she came to live with me for the last nine months of her life. And you know we weren’t we were never able to resolve this between us. But what we were able to do was come to a kind of peace where I know you believe that I don’t believe that but I really love you. And you know, she was incredibly grateful to be living with me when she was sick and dying. And so you know there was some grace there for us not resolution but some grace.

Gabe Howard: From the time that you confronted your mother until the time that she passed away how long of a period of time was that.

Pauline Dakin: So from the time you know of that initial confrontation until the time she died would have been almost 20 years.

Gabe Howard: And so for those 20 years you did find a way to stay in your mom’s life. And what kind of a grandmother was your I mean your children had a 20 years a long time. Your children had a relationship with their grandma. What was that like?

Pauline Dakin: Yeah you know she was always a very loving person and she was thrilled to have grandchildren and they were all very close. Things kind of changed because Stan died. And so then the whole kind of story went underground and there were only a couple of times that she said things that made me know that she still believe. But it was important to me that she not be talking about that stuff to my kids. So we were clear about that. And outside of that she you know she loved my kids and they really loved her. I’m really grateful they got to know her.

Gabe Howard: From the time of the you know the sting operation to the time that Stan passed away How long was that.

Pauline Dakin: Only a few years maybe four or five years.

Gabe Howard: So your mother outlived Stan by 15 years. So did your mom and Stan’s marriage end in divorce?

Pauline Dakin: Well they never got together really. You know they wanted to be together. They wanted to go inside and be together in protective custody. But that never happened. And so you know she would see him on these visits and he would phone her and so on. Yeah. So the way she found out that he had died was that she got a letter from his wife. So he had never you know he was still in his primary marriage at the time he died.

Gabe Howard: This is absolutely incredible and it’s all chronicled in this book Run Hide Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood and from a personal level you had to recall all of this. What was that like for you to relive all of this, in writing the book?

Pauline Dakin: You know what, it was a very hard time. But I think you just reach a certain age and I had spent a long time just thinking OK forget about this. This was a terrible thing it happened but forget about it put it behind you move on. Focus on your family and your career and so on and that’s what I did for a long time but then I think at some point you just have to stop and shake your head and say what the heck was that. What happened there. And so I began to think about it and then I began to write out to write about it as a means of trying to sort it out for myself and knowing that someday I would want to tell my kids this in a way that wouldn’t make them hate their grandmother who they loved so much I wanted to be able to tell them about this in a very nuanced way within a context. And so that’s why I started writing. And actually it was while I was writing I was doing research thinking so what could have been going on with Stan? I was a health reporter for the national broadcaster in Canada for a while. And so I you know I read a lot of medical journals. And so you know I was looking for information about you know he didn’t show any. He wasn’t schizophrenic. He didn’t have any of those other symptoms you associate with major mental illness. What was going on? And it was while I was doing that that I made a big discovery which was became the impetus for me to share this story more widely. I mean initially it was just for my family but then I when I made this discovery I just thought nobody has heard of this before and I need to share it because it essentially had such an impact on my life and my brother’s life. Other people should know.

Gabe Howard: And what was the discovery. Because I think to the average person listening to this story they’re like Oh Stan was a con artist and your mother must have given him a lot of money like that. That’s where I’m sitting here right now thinking that’s got to be it. And I’ve read the book

Pauline Dakin: Yeah.

Gabe Howard: So and I still want to believe that.

Pauline Dakin: Yeah.

Gabe Howard: But what did you learn?

Pauline Dakin: Well so first of all no he no. My mother never gave money in fact he often helped support her family. So what I discovered was an article by a professor psychiatrist at Harvard writing about something called delusional disorder and he described it as something that at least in the literature is extremely rare and in fact you know I called him up and said OK can I can I talk to you about this. I mean as a reporter I was used to calling people up and interviewing them so I can I talk to you about this. And so we had a very long conversation where I described what had happened and he was fascinated of course. And so you know he said during that you know most doctors will never see a case of this because these people appear completely normal. They don’t think there’s anything wrong with themselves. And so they don’t go looking for help. They don’t turn up as an issue in society unless they have you know there’s some subtypes of delusional disorder that occasionally you hear about. But with the kind that Stan had persecutory delusional disorder where you believe that somebody is coming after you somebody is trying to harm you somebodies hunting you down that that rarely comes to anybody’s attention because they keep the secret. Right.

Gabe Howard: Right. For their safety.

Pauline Dakin: You know he was able to have a completely normal life in a very public and responsible job. Retired. People loved him. People come to when I do a book reading people come and they cry and they tell me what a wonderful man he was and they just how could this have happened. You know so it’s a very bizarre condition.

Gabe Howard: It really really is. What did you hope people would take away from this.

Pauline Dakin: I think there are several things. One is that children can be so vulnerable and I often think about you know the teachers and the adults in our lives. And you know did anybody raise concerns when a couple of kids just kind of disappear from school and after school activities in the neighborhood and so on. Again I don’t know that this could happen today just because of how connected we all are. But I just I wanted to say you know you never know what’s going on in somebodies life and kids there needs to be ways of protecting kids. So that’s one. But you know on the other spectrum I think there is a remarkable story about you know everybody always says to me how did you survive this. Well it’s a resilience thing you know and resilience isn’t. Either you got it or you don’t. Resilience is something that you can develop in your life. And I believe that my brother and I have the resilience to get through all of this because of how well loved we are. And I know it’s paradoxical. So a parent who puts you in jeopardy but at the same time who gives you the resources and the support to become a resilient person. It’s a crazy thing but that’s what I believe. And I guess the other thing is I really wish people would pay more attention to delusional disorder. I wish somebody would try to do more research on it. I’ve heard from people all over the world who’ve said to me Oh I never knew what was wrong with my son my aunt my father my husband. You know that must be it. So I doubt that it’s really as rare as the medical literature would suggest.

Gabe Howard: Where can we find you and where can we find the book.

Pauline Dakin: You know the book has been out for almost two years now. So at one point it was available around most bookstores in North America. But if it’s not Amazon’s a good spot I have a Web site PaulineDakin. com with links to places that you can buy it. And I really appreciate your interest.

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The Harmony Arts Festival hosts an Indigenous Feast; Vancouver Queer Film Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary; and Vancouver Canadians Baseball Foundation recently concluded its 8th annual Foundation League.

FIRST COURSE: For the first time in 28 years, the Harmony Arts Festival shined a spotlight on Indigenous arts, music and food.

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How the Sports Landscape in Canada Is Changing

This article originally appeared on VICE Sports Canada.

As Sidney Crosby cycled the puck into the corner and cut for the net, a record 16.6 million Canadians sat and watched, breath baited. Nearly eight minutes into overtime against the United States, Crosby fired a shot short-side to beat Ryan Miller, giving Canada the gold medal in men's ice hockey on home turf and creating one of the most iconic moments in Canadian sports history.

Looking back over the last 150 years of sport in Canada, any list of meaningful moments is going to be littered with events from the hockey world. It is, for lack of a better term, Canada's sport, something ingrained in the fabric of the country, its people, and its culture. As Crosby fired his gold-medal winner in Vancouver, it was perhaps the perfect snapshot of hockey's importance to Canada—the 2015 Vital Signs Report from the Toronto Foundation found that 90 percent of Canadians said Olympic success had a positive impact on their Canadian pride.

"I believe, for better or for worse, that the Canadian self-image is inexorably tied to the main national sport, hockey: team-oriented, resourceful, determined, resilient, cooperative and, ultimately, triumphant," award-winning Canadian author Roy MacGregor told VICE Sports. "There may be a lot of hooey in this but there is also a lot of truth. Success in Olympic hockey, both men's and women's, is a Canadian priority."

As we look ahead to what the next 150 years of sport may look like in this country, an interesting question emerges: Will that always be the case?

To be clear, hockey is not going anywhere, and what follows is mostly an experiment in hypotheticals and over-extrapolations. The real answer as to what Canadian sport may look like in 150 years might be better predicted by Futurama than current data, considering how far things have come since 1867. But the country's 150th anniversary marks an interesting time to reflect and project, because the tides of Canadian sport interest and, more notably, participation, appear to be changing.

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Once Canada's de facto No. 1 sport, hockey faces some challenges moving forward. Crosby himself is an avatar for the crib-to-cup Hockey Canada system and the success it can breed, and improvements in the quality of coaching, training, and knowledge should continue to help those Canadians who do choose to play hockey—and can afford to—thrive. The concern, though, is that fewer Canadians are participating in hockey, gold-medal moments be damned.

"I think going forward we're going to have to work even harder at attracting participants to the sport of hockey," Scott Smith, who is shifting from COO to president of Hockey Canada, told VICE Sports. "I would think that all sports are probably going through something similar. We're looking at ways to attract kids to the game now that are very different than what sort of the regular mainstream participation in hockey is."

In Hockey Canada's 2015-16 annual report, registration numbers showed a modest decrease across the country, a reversal of course after a few years with a moderate trend upward, with 549,614 males and 86,925 females registered. It's a plateau more than a striking decrease. But hockey has fallen behind soccer and swimming in terms of youth participation, has also fallen behind basketball in immigrant youth participation (an important consideration given Canada's shifting demographics), and there are significant barriers to participation that need to be addressed (some of which Hockey Canada is hoping to tackle with several projects, including The Bauer First Shift initiative).

If participation in hockey continues to decrease or stagnate, it could lead to more difficulty at the NHL or international level, and possibly further hamper enrollment. The effect is measurable in speculation only, but the converse has been fairly clear for one of hockey's primary competitors in the national sport landscape: basketball.

Perhaps Vince Carter can be blamed. The boom of basketball in Canada traces back to Carter fairly easily, and as far back as VC's early years, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment pondered the shifting demographics in the city of Toronto as it pertained to their properties, the Raptors and Maple Leafs. The existence of the Raptors has been credited with a rise in basketball participation, which has opened the floodgates for record numbers of Canadians in the NBA, and there's a feeling of genuine momentum in the sport.

"There's no doubt that the current roster of Toronto Raptors and our Canadian players in the NBA and WNBA will inspire the next generation," Michele O'Keefe, president and CEO of Basketball Canada, told VICE Sports. "Many people say this is the golden age of Canadian basketball. This is not true. We are just starting to write out story."

Canada is yet to achieve the type of podium success in international events that may help weave basketball into the cultural fabric even further, and television ratings pale in comparison to hockey (baseball has experienced higher peaks despite much smaller participation numbers). Basketball ranked sixth in a 2014 study of youth sport participation. It's not there yet. But basketball has built-in architectural advantages, particularly in terms of cost, and has begun to take a more profound hold in Canada's largest and most multicultural city. As the infrastructure grows, it would seem to have ample opportunity for continued growth.

"I can absolutely see it continuing as it has been," says Toronto Star writer Doug Smith, who has been covering the Raptors since their inception. "I don't see it stopping any time soon. Our 'new Canadians' have not grown up following, playing, or living with hockey and that's not likely to be any different in the next 25 or 50 years, I don't imagine."

Soccer, which has similar advantages in terms of cost, has an even greater resonance with immigrant Canadians, and is already the No. 1 team sport in terms of youth participation by a fairly significant margin. The emergence of Toronto FC as a rising powerhouse in Toronto should only foster that momentum, and while success has been somewhat delayed in the men's national program, the relatively infantile women's program has medaled in the last two Olympics. The world's most popular sport makes logical sense as the largest threat to the hockey-led status quo in the most diverse western country on the map.

The advantages that basketball and soccer have leveraged shine an important light on a bigger question than just participation in hockey: Canada is facing a bit of a sport participation crisis in general, and it's particularly notable with children under the age of 13. In an interview with the Globe and Mail last, Karri Dawson, the director of the True Sport Foundation, laid out a number of root causes. They include cost (likely hockey's biggest challenge), which was evident in a 2013 Heritage Canada study that showed an increasing income gap as national participation's steady decline since 1992 continues. The foundation's 2016 report (partnered with Vital Signs) also suggests that a focus on elite athletes could push some away, and it's that same focus on performance that can, in turn, drive up costs further.

"It's getting more expensive, and that's cutting out people," Christopher Waddell, editor of How Canadians Communicate V: Sports, told VICE Sports. "Part of it is professionalization. Parents want better coaching, parents want better facilities and better services. Coaching, as long as it's volunteer, is difficult for leagues or clubs to control. Paying them means it costs more for the participants. The pay for the coaches have to come from somewhere, and it comes in membership fees, so it's more difficult for low-income kids to participate."

It's a bit confounding, if not understandable: 38 percent of Canadians don't feel they have a stake in their communities, 85 percent agree that sport helps build community, per the 2015 Vital Signs report, and yet participation is down. A 2014 study from the Institute for Canadian Citizenship found new citizens to be eager to participate in sport, with 53 percent identifying that sport was a means of integrating into Canadian society and 69 percent saying sports helped them learn about Canadian culture, yet the barriers to participation remain limiting. Everyone agrees as to the importance of physical activity in children, yet a 2016 Participation report says that a woeful nine percent of Canadian children get the recommended amount of exercise. A concerning gender gap remains—M. Ann Hall, Ph.D, the author of several books on women in Canadian sport, says progress in her more than 50 years working on gender issues has been "steady but slow," and identifies a lack of women's sport in media as the biggest contributing problem at present. Adults are participating less, which has been shown to have an impact on the activity levels of children.

These larger, country-wide issues are of greater importance to the long-term health of sport in Canada than the dominance of men's hockey in the media landscape. And it's a focus of all of the major national sports organizations.

"I think going forward we're going to have to work even harder at attracting participants to the sport of hockey," Hockey Canada's Smith says. "I would think that all sports are probably going through something similar. I also think part of our responsibility is the overall health and fitness of Canadian youth, and we really need to work as hard as we can to make sure that we're attracting kids to lead a healthy and active lifestyle."

Still, these issues appear, in the current snapshot, to be a bigger concern for hockey. Even as other sports catch up and surpass hockey in participation rates and take small bites out of the national consciousness, hockey's shadow in the media landscape remains immense. Projecting forward is difficult, and it's equally difficult to extrapolate current trends or envision a future in which hockey isn't still Canada's primary sport.

Crosby's golden goal is one of the most iconic moments in Canadian sports history. Photo by Todd Koro/Reuters

"I would tell you that that's something that we always want to strive for, but I wouldn't tell you the word confident, because that would mean we take it for granted, and we don't," says Smith. "We think that we have a very strong position if you look at how our national teams compete and create that kind of aspirational view for young people. But we're always trying to look at how we expose more Canadians to the sport of hockey."

What happens from here is anyone's guess. Canadian television viewership for the 2014 gold-medal game was down but still robust at 15 million. The NHL declining to participate in the 2018 event threatens to further cut into hockey's hold on the public's consciousness. Even still, there's an enormous gap for any other sport to close, and it's probably not closing any time soon.

How the share of public attention may break down 150, or even 50 years down the line is an interesting, if impossible, thought experiment. Perhaps the best answer is that sport in Canada for the next 150 years is trending in the direction of the same kind of diversity that's defined the country outside of the sports world over the last 150.

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Yesterday was the third and final stop in a series of events put together by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation in collaboration with the Winnipeg, Halton and Calgary boards of education. This was a great group of people to work with and – while it is naturally sad to come to the end of our time together and I wish we could do more events across the country – there is a whole other level of bittersweetness to the end of this collaboration.

First, a little background on the Foundation: Back in 1988, the Government of Canada and the National Association of Japanese Canadians signed the Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement. It was a way to acknowledge and atone for the terrible injustices suffered by Canadians of Japanese heritage during the second world war. Perhaps the most generous and optimistic gesture to come out of that agreement was the formation of a national foundation dedicated to the elimination of racism in Canadian society. The federal government proclaimed the Canadian Race Relations Foundation Act into law on October 28, 1996 and the Foundation officially opened its doors in Toronto in November 1997. (That’s current CRRF Executive Director Anita Bromberg pictured holding Voyageur in the centre of our little gang). Given the dedication of Six String Nation to similar principles of openness and inclusion and given the presence of the swatch of fabric from the Vancouver Asahi baseball jersey in the collection of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre that shares its offices with the CRRF, I was especially honoured to be asked to participate in this three-event program.

So the events worked like this: the local boards assembled groups of student leaders to participate in a day dedicated to learning about ways to fight racism, homophobia and other forms of exclusion in their schools and communities and bussed them to a central location. The day started with the Six String Nation presentation as a way of introducing the students to at least one way of confronting stereotypes and creating a vision for a deeply inclusive Canada. After that, the students broke out into groups to do workshops with Matthew Johnson (pictured next to me, second from left) about applying critical thinking to media and social constructions that lead to scapegoating, othering, and various forms of bias; Rani Sanderson (pictured right) on finding ways to articulate and express your own personal story as a way of connecting with others; and Cat Criger (pictured second from right) on how to employ an indigenous way of looking at the world every day and in all facets of life. It all wrapped up with an inspiring challenge to participating students from equity and human rights speaker, author and songwriter Chris D’Souza (pictured, rear) to take the lessons of the day back into their schools and communities with real passion. Chris played Voyageur as part of that closing address.

We met some great students (and teachers and administrators) at each event and from sitting in on all the workshops I know that the students got a lot out of the experience. But here’s the really bittersweet part of this whole thing for me: I remember thinking as a kid that there was no way racism would survive as a way of looking at people and the world. It just seemed an enormous amount of negative energy required to sustain a worldview that made no sense, had no basis in fact and poisoned the whole environment even for those who held that view. It just seemed like a spent force that would disappear as the world progressed. And yet, while we were doing the event in Winnipeg, Anita had to excuse herself from the room to deal with phone calls about vandalism at mosques and synagogues in various parts of Canada and a white-supremacist demonstration planned in Alberta. At the event in Milton, Chris told me that his kid’s hockey team had decided that they wouldn’t stand behind his own brown-skinned son if the team was somehow detained at the U.S. border on the way to a tournament in Detroit. Donald Trump took another crack at his travel ban, the Canadian Girl Guides and the Toronto District School Board announced cancellation of planned trips to the U.S., and coming back from dinner our first night here in Calgary we learned of the terrorist attack in London.

I really enjoyed my time working with these great people and I feel like we accomplished what we set out to do but it’s so very clear that so much more needs to be done and in this climate, the problem I thought would be all but gone by the time I was an adult, seems more monumental than ever.

Thanks to my teammates and to all of the participants in Winnipeg, Milton and Calgary. Thanks also to everyone at the CRRF, including Suren Nathan and Len Rudner for pulling together all the details. And a special thanks to Paul Delaney for getting the whole ball rolling.

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How the Sports Landscape in Canada Is Changing

This article originally appeared on VICE Sports Canada.

As we look ahead to what the next 150 years of sport may look like in this country, an interesting question emerges: Will that always be the case?

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Crosby's golden goal is one of the most iconic moments in Canadian sports history. Photo by Todd Koro/Reuters

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