Aug 2026 Update

URGENT GOFUNDME UPDATE:

Facing 6 Months of Institutional Abuse, Care Deprivation, and Psychological Warfare — I Desperately Need a Lawyer.Dear Friends, Supporters, and Donors,I am writing this update to you in a state of absolute crisis and desperation. Over the last six months, my life at Berkley Care Centre in North Vancouver has been turned into a living nightmare. I am currently experiencing severe, targeted institutional abuse, psychological warfare, and retaliatory harassment executed directly by facility management.My physical health is broken, my mental health is failing rapidly under the extreme duress, and I am at a complete breaking point. I am releasing this full, documented timeline because I desperately need to secure an emergency pro-bono or human rights lawyer in British Columbia to step in before it is too late. The Documented Timeline of Abuse & Retaliation:

January 22, 2026: The campaign began with a retaliatory, completely unjustified eviction attempt executed by the Facility Manager, combined with an arbitrary ban on my personal visitors and my therapeutic, income-supplementing chili-growing greenhouse hobby.

April 10, 2026 (4:15 PM): The Facility Manager explicitly berated my social media, made malicious accusations of CRA fraud, and demanded I remove my documentation of her harassment. Simultaneously, she deactivated my greenhouse fans and shut the doors, initiating daily climate sabotage.

April 17, 2026: Documented climate control tampering inside the greenhouse area, causing extensive plant property damage.

April 23, 2026: The continuous mental duress, anxiety, and physical exhaustion from this harassment directly contributed to me suffering a severe physical fall at the greenhouse entrance, resulting in a broken right leg that required major surgery.

May 1, 2026: While I was hospitalized at Lions Gate Hospital awaiting surgery, facility management executed an unauthorized privacy breach into my private provincial electronic medical records via CareConnect. They used this confidential data to interfere with my hospital discharge planning and orchestrate further retaliation. Exactly two hours after my records were accessed, a trusted staff insider was reprimanded by management for providing me with mental support and watering my chili plants - on her own time. This breach was witnessed and validated by Lions Gate Hospital staff

May 2, 2026: While I lay in a hospital bed post-surgery, facility management issued a formal directive banning all Berkley staff from watering my plants and turning off grow lights, causing extensive botanical destruction.

May 3, 2026: Douglas from the Lions Gate Hospital Discharge Planning department formally confirmed the validity of my account. After personally contacting a Berkley Care Centre staff member who verified my claims, They reviewed the situation and stated directly, "It stinks," explicitly referring to management's handling of my file.

May 20, 2026: Management ordered an illegal seizure and partial destruction of 65 personal grow bags, dumping 30% of my specialized soil into public garden beds. Just one week post-surgery, I was forced to navigate my defective wheelchair to a remote, detached shed—an environment my legal counsel classifies as "reckless endangerment"—to physically salvage what was left.

June – July 2026 (Systemic Care Deprivation): Over a 13-week post-surgery period, I have been left entirely without proper physiotherapy, severely compromising my leg's bone healing. Furthermore, my standard wheelchair was sent for repairs on May 10;

I have been left for 12 weeks operating a defective, mismatched replacement chair that severely restricts basic mobility, directly ignoring official post-op notes explicitly stating a clinical need for a bariatric wheelchair

.July 10, 2026: Dual targeted attacks disabling greenhouse climate control occurred on a single Friday, within one hour of management threats to repossess my long-term medical equipment.

Daily climate sabotage has pushed temperatures above 40°C, causing over $1,600 in documented damage to my primary source of supplemental income after CPP.

July 14, 2026 (The Bed Seizure): Management forcibly entered my room and seized the bariatric medical bed I have relied on safely for 6 years, without any clinical assessment or occupational therapy review. My mattress has been violently compressed into a narrow standard frame, causing immediate, severe lower back and hip pain. My prescribed bed frame currently sits unused in basement storage, proving their claim of "urgent need for another patient" was entirely fraudulent. The Current Crisis:Right now, frontline staff are being threatened with termination by management if they assist me ("Don't help Ken or you're fired"), leaving me in a complete care vacuum.

.Local management utilizes gaslighting, intimidation, and false administrative pretexts to cover up what is a vicious, personal vendetta. I have spent months attempting internal resolution with the Patient Care Quality Office (PCQO) and regulatory bodies, but the bureaucracy moves far too slowly while my safety is compromised daily. My Urgent Appeal to You:I hold irrefutable, objective, high-definition documentation of these violations. They do not know the extent of the proof I have. But I cannot fight an entire health authority alone from a wheelchair with a healing leg.Please Share This Update Everywhere: Word of mouth is powerful. We need this to reach legal advocacy groups, elder abuse networks, and BC media.Legal Connections:

If you know a lawyer specializing in BC Human Rights, Elder Law, or Medical Malpractice who can take this on, please connect them to me immediately.Financial Support: Every dollar donated goes directly toward securing legal protection, independent medical assessments, and replacing the vital therapeutic equipment and supplies that have been destroyed.Thank you for standing by me when I am being forced into a corner. I am fighting for my safety, my dignity, and my right to exist without abuse.With deepest gratitude

"Next time, Management will target a frail grandmother, putting her directly in their crosshairs knowing she has no ability to fight. I fight for her too."

,Ken Birkin

Berkley Care Centre

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Update, I'm still at it, I recently found out my pain issue turns out to be deformative arthritis in my ankle, that's why my shoes wear so bad on that side.. Just one more thing to deal with, but no worry that won't stop me. The bad leg with all the hardware is still staying together, I have had screws break in the past...The new HOKAS are great, I'm able to make it to Seymour river again if it's not too hot, I still owe $ 120 on them - if anybody wants to pitch in ? Thanks to all of you for past help. As I do my walk I end up talking with many " fans " on the road, some pull over to say how I inspire them and their friends that see me too. Thanks, that kinda thing actually inspires me, a lot of the daily walk is mental for me.

Honk if you see me on the parkway.

Ken

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Hi, I'm Ken

Awesome response from the NORTH SHORE NEWS article !! thank you so much, i will buy much needed clothes and shoes for next season. Funds will be used to upgrade clothes, possibly work clothes and the rest put aside to survive the winter $220 a month from the NDP is just not enough.

GIVE ME A HONK IF YOU SEE ME ON SEYMOUR PARKWAY. Many do daily.

MY STORY

In 2015 I was badly hurt in Costa Rica with 4 leg fractures and a resulting bone infection, only 18 months ago did we finally deal with the infection and a few broken screws poking out of my leg ( I walked around a year like that untill they could book a surgery ) fractures dont heal with a bone infection.

Im walking finally after 8 surgeries and 7 years in a wheelchair., Walking and keto diet have made a big diffrence in my recovery. I walk 2..5 km daily now, July's

total was 92 km/ my best month so far, Sept 71 km. Overall in 2 years ? 700 or more km

I'm also attempting to return to construction work,

..just me fighting to be a " citizen " again.

Dave Eby,s BC Disability is only $220/month after rent ( has been unchanged for 9 years ) with a $300 clawback purposely from disability, they refuse to help, Walking sticks have been supplied, I need work clothes, smaller clothes all around, boots, online training upgrades and other support to be able to return to work. Sadly the BC Government and Trudope could care less, like thousands of disabled, Even WorkBC has cut me off ( their policy )

Below is BC Disability's excuse,they always pass the buck

Donations really help with a MENTAL BOOST and allow me too buy clothes, shoes dont last long either, Good shoes are important for the walking since im constantly in pain. I still have 15 screws and other plates in my leg.

Thanks - Ken B