SSHRC Storytellers Showcase – Sydney Ambury By Spencer Robinson July 6, 2026 **RESEARCH ASSISTANT HIGHLIGHT** We want to congratulate one of our incredible research assistants, Sydney Ambury, on her presentation […]

“What Community-Based Care Can Look Like” By Alexandra ‘Lexy’ Stewart May 15, 2026 In March 2026, our research team, alongside members of the Urban Indigenous Guidance Circle that guides our […]

“A special sort of person” By Mercedes Calma July 24 2025 “Wow. Takes a special sort of person to do that work.” This has become the well-meaning phrase I most […]

Relationships: What brought me here and what keeps me going By Carley McConnachie March 26 2024 This is where I am meant to be. I never dreamt it was possible […]

Lessons in Helping By Robyn Kyle February 22, 2024 I learned a lot about death and dying before I knew much about palliative care. My career began at an emergency […]

How equity work taught me to be brave By Kate Leahy January 17, 2024 Over the past 4 years, I’ve had the life-changing opportunity of working with some of the […]

Palliative Care Is… By the ePAC Action Team June 01, 2023 “It’s as much about death as it is about life” is a statement heard frequently around the Action Team […]

The PORTmobile! By Carolyn Wilkinson Manager, Palliative & End of Life Care and Spiritual Health, Island Health May 25, 2023 We needed a car! Not a new car, not a […]

Social capital and homelessness: Reflections on my PhD experience By Nadia Ayed, PhD November 29, 2022 “This piece was created by Joe (participant pseudonym) and his daughter after Joe was […]

Inspired by Personal Experience By Courtney Petruik August 22, 2022 PhD student examines the organization of palliative care for people who are socially marginalized In 2016, I moved to Calgary, […]

Equity-in-Practice: Arrow Big Smoke By: Ashley Mollison June 09, 2022 Arrow Big Smoke is a proud member of the Blackfoot Confederacy and is registered with the Piikani Nation. She is […]

Why I think a palliative approach to care is important when working with youth By Carley McConnachie March 01, 2022 I remember the first time I overheard a conversation about […]

What is a good death? By Charlotte Futcher February 01, 2022 How I got here, as a social work student doing a practicum with the Equity in Palliative Approaches to […]

Introducing Research Briefs By the ePAC Research Team December 03, 2021 Knowledge translation is about ensuring that what we learn in research is useable for the people, communities, and systems […]

PORT rePORT By ePAC Team Nov 24, 2021 This summer, the ‘new’ Palliative Outreach Resource Team officially turned two years old! We didn’t pause to celebrate for long as we […]

Talking Equity-Informed Advance Care Planning By Ashley Mollison & Kara Whitlock October 6, 2020 On behalf of our ePAC collaborative and with deep gratitude to our Inner City Action Team […]

What caring for Joe taught me about privilege, forgiveness, and love By Jenafor Ryane May 14, 2020 Folks facing life-limiting illness often find themselves wading through uncomfortable feelings such as […]

New article on privilege in palliative care By the ePAC team December 25, 2019 As COVID-19 rips through our communities, those who are socially disadvantaged will likely be among the […]

Introducing the ePAC crew By the ePAC team April 17, 2020 Word has been spreading about the excellent work of ePAC and PORT (Palliative Outreach Response Team) and community members […]

New article on privilege in palliative care By the ePAC team December 25, 2019 On October 13th, Dr. Kelli Stajduhar delivered a keynote presentation at the Public Health Palliative Care […]

“What do you want to do before you die?” By the ePAC team October 24, 2019 Updated: Oct 25, 2019 The “Before I Die” global art project is coming to […]

The Palliative Outreach Resource Team (PORT) Launches in Victoria By Sydney Hofmeyr & Rowen Harris, NURS456 Practicum Students, ePAC May 1, 2019 Updated: Apr 17, 2020 September 19th was an exciting day […]

ePAC in the news By the ePAC Team May 1, 2019 Updated: Apr 17, 2020 Advance Care Planning (ACP) has emerged in our Action Team as a focus to ensure […]

A PORT update By Katie Leahy and Fraser Black May 1, 2019 Updated: Apr 17, 2020 A result of years of advocacy, research and community mobilization, The Palliative Outreach Resource […]