On Wednesday, the Department of Community Services made good on Minister Denise Peterson-Rafuse's vindictive plan to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to replace the residential addiction treatment services so ably provided by the Talbot House Recovery Centre for the last half century. Those services came screeching to a halt last February, after a biased and incompetent "organizational review" by the department's  director of family and youth services, Marika Lathem, lent temporary credence to what turned out to be false charges of sexual misconduct against the home's executive director. Peterson-Rafuse and her officials are variously quoted as saying the Talbot House Society is welcome to...

02 August, 2012