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<div>Sasha LeBaron here setting this up on behalf of Aaron "Red" Wallace, Amanda and their family in this time of need for the replacement of their pump house, power drop (hydro has them hooked back up thankfully), deep well equipment as well as many personal items that were lost to fire.
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<div>in times past, we would all gather around with our chainsaws and such and people would bring food and we would build them a new home or house or shop however, in these times when people are so busy, some who would love to help hands-on simply don't have the time. That's why we're bringing this forward so that you can share your energy using our national medium of exchange.
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Rising From The Ashes With Love

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 Hi, my name’s Laurel and I am once again asking for help. I am having a third surgery on my ankle with a specialist in Vancouver, which means at least four trips to Vancouver including gas, expensive hotel stays, and meals away from home. I’ll also need to pay for a physiotherapist once I start healing. My surgery is booked for October 6th — I’m also having a bone graft this time which I hope will kick-start my bones healing the way they need to!
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 I so appreciate all the effort people went to setting me up with and donating to the go fund me for my last surgery, and I’m reaching out again. I managed to stretch the money raised last time for 7 trips to Vancouver, but leaned heavily on Mum and Dad to make up for what wasn’t raised. This time I’m hoping to raise enough that the Bank of Mum and Dad won’t have to pay for anything!
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Laurel needs to travel to Vancouver for a new surgery

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 Our hearts are broken after a devastating fire severely damaged Forage Farm &amp; Kitchen, a place that means so much to our Hornby Island community.
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 Forage is more than just a restaurant. It’s where friends gather, families celebrate, visitors are welcomed, and memories are made. It’s become part of the heart of our island, and seeing it damaged so suddenly has been heartbreaking for everyone.
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 Thankfully, no one was hurt, but the road to recovery will be long. While insurance will help, it won’t cover everything. They’re facing a significant deductible, some uninsured rebuilding costs, and many expenses that come with rebuilding.
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 Like many small business owners, they had recently invested in new equipment and taken on additional debt to prepare for the busy season. Before they even had the chance to recover those investments, their world turned upside down.
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 Anyone who knows the owners knows how much passion, hard work, and love they’ve poured into Forage. We’re asking for your help to ease some of that burden. Every donation will go toward their insurance deductible, rebuilding costs, replacing what insurance won’t cover, and helping them reopen their doors.
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 Hornby has always been a community that shows up for one another. Let’s come together to help this incredible family rebuild not just their restaurant, but a place that has become part of all our lives.
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<div>Help My Sister Eydie (W̱IOMELWET) and Our Family – Cancer Treatment &amp; Safe Housing
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<div>HÍWSKE HÁLE for taking the time to read our family’s story.
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<div>My name is Eric Pelkey, WÍĆKINEM, Hereditary Chief of Tsawout of the W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) Nation. I’m reaching out with a heavy heart for my beloved sister, Eydie Pelkey (W̱IOMELWET). She’s a respected Elder, Local Hero award recipient, and tireless advocate who helped create the First Nations Adult Care Society and fought for better care for our Elders and families.
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<div>Eydie is undergoing cancer treatment right now. On top of that, she’s the heart of our big family — caring for a house full of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and extended family who all rely on her. The overcrowded conditions are making her fight so much harder. She desperately needs her own quiet space to heal while we renovate the main house for the grandkids. With the cost of living so high and rent impossible everywhere, we must stay together on our ancestral lands.
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<div>This is about keeping our family together in the W̱SÁNEĆ way — caring for our Elders and the generations to come. Any amount helps — $5, $25, or more. Sharing this means just as much.
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<div>HÍSWKE HÁLE from the bottom of our hearts.
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Help My Sister’s Heal and be housed

<div>Imagine a Canada where 40 million people have the right to safely explore their own minds with psilocybin—and where that right is protected under the Charter, not granted as a rare medical favour?
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<li><strong>Court Transcripts (Evidence Preparation) </strong>— $3,500 - Ordered! <strong>Milestone Reached</strong>
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<li><strong>File Constitutional Question Notice</strong>  — $4,500 - Filed! <strong>Another Milestone Reached</strong>
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<li><strong>Build the Core Legal Argument on Freedom of Thought</strong> — $25,500 <strong>We’re getting there - let’s keep up the momentum</strong>
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<div><strong>Join the Psychedelic Association of Canada and Lawyer Paul Lewin to take this case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada if necessary! </strong>
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<div>If we win, the Canadian federal government will be forced to legalize psilocybin for healthy adults, subject to reasonable limits, as a protected “freedom of thought” tool—much like a passport is protected as a mobility tool and information‑gathering is protected as a press tool. This case argues that psilocybin is to thought what the printing press was to expression: it doesn’t dictate what you think, it lets you think more deeply, creatively, and freely.
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<div>We already built a powerful evidentiary record showing psilocybin reliably supports cognitive flexibility, spirituality, life meaning, connection to self, others, and nature—evidence backed by leading researchers like David Nutt and many peer‑reviewed studies. Even the government’s own expert acknowledged that psilocybin can produce mystical and spiritual experiences, creativity, and profound shifts in perspective.
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<div><strong>Yet the trial judge created a brand‑new, unworkable test, insisting that a freedom‑of‑thought tool must produce a predictable, specific thought—something no genuine thought tool (not a philosophy book, not psychotherapy, not psilocybin) could ever guarantee.</strong> He then brushed aside hundreds of pages of testimony and exhibits and called psilocybin’s relationship to thought “remote,” despite finding that it increases neuroplasticity and enables new thought patterns with therapeutic support.
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<div><strong>There is very good news buried in that bad decision: </strong>the judge found psilocybin can be used safely from a licensed source in a supervised setting, and that there is no practical exemption pathway for people seeking access for thought-related purposes. In constitutional terms, that means if we establish that psilocybin is a freedom-of-thought tool, the government will struggle to justify its prohibition—and we win.
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<div>The client who started this case is now out of money; without your support, the appeal dies and this mountain of carefully gathered evidence is wasted. With your help, we can carry this Freedom-of-Thought Challenge to the top court in Ontario and set a precedent that could ripple across other psychedelics and even other countries where freedom of thought is constitutionally protected. Please donate what you can and share widely—this is our chance to change the law, not just for a handful of patients, but for everyone.
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<div><strong>Join the Psychedelic Association of Canada in supporting Lawyer Paul Lewin to take this case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada if necessary! </strong>
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Your Mind Belongs to You - Help Us Prove it in Court