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Christine HINZMANN Citizen staff chinzmann@pgcitizen.ca There’s an old saying that starts out feeling very familiar but the end of the phrase used within the walls of one Prince George nonprofit group may stop you in your tracks. “If you’ve seen one brain injury... you’ve seen one brain injury.” That statement is driven home when Ma’iingan Corbiere, 47, starts to talk about when the culmination of an abusive relationship ended with a traumatic brain injury that sent her to an Ontario hospital in 2000. Everything changed that day and for 17 years afterwards, Corbiere was in survival mode, trying to navigate the new world in which she lived that saw her searching for her words, trying to comprehend the most basic things, never knowing how to cope with her mixed emotions and the countless challenges that came with her brain injury. “I can’t think of an area of my life that hasn’t been impacted by this,” she said. “Basically, it changed who I was and I didn’t know who I was for a long time.” Corbiere said in the past she didn’t receive any treatment that was brain-injury specific.
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Valerie Peters is dreading the day the last Greyhound bus pulls out of Quesnel on Oct. 31. The inter-city bus company, which announced last month it was discontinuing all bus routes within Western Canada, is cutting off the only way Peters has of getting to her job in Vancouver. Since she lost her full-time job in the oilpatch and has had to go on to a disability pension, she takes work as she can get it in the film industry. “I had an accident and for medical reasons I can’t work at my old job any more,” she said. “So somebody said, go to Hollywood North and be an extra, so that’s what I do, part-time.” She’s one of thousands of passengers who will be left without regular bus service in parts of the province without scheduled bus service. And it’s still uncertain whether or not people in areas where bus companies have applied to offer service – but haven’t yet been approved – will have service on Nov. 1. “We’re still waiting on the Passenger Transportation Board to approve our application,” said John Stepovy of the Edmonton-
based Ebus company that would like to operate scheduled daily bus service between Kelowna and Vancouver and between Kamloops and Vancouver. Peters, who doesn’t drive and who lives outside of Quesnel, takes the 11-hour ride into Vancouver whenever she gets a gig, and stays with friends to cut expenses. She said without a vehicle, it’s difficult for her to take steady work in Quesnel “and this is the only way that I can make a little cash.” But with Greyhound cutting service in about two weeks, “people are starting to panic,” she said. The transportation board has received seven recent applications from bus companies wanting to provide scheduled intercity bus service. One between Nelson and Kelowna has been approved, two servicing Whistler will be reviewed shortly and decisions are “pending” for four other proposals, according to the PTB website. “We have all the applications and we have the status of them posted,” said board director Jan Broocke. — see ‘IT CAN’T, page 3
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Ma’iingan Corbiere is a brain injury survivor who spoke to The Citizen about her experience of demonstrated neuroplasticity after injury. “And that posed a lot of difficulty in getting by,” she added. “I went for 17 years being injured and being different and having symptoms and not understanding what was happening or how to fix it.” Moving to Prince George to attend the University of Northern B.C. after earning a scholarship to pursue a master’s in social work, Corbiere experienced another setback that has not as yet been diagnosed. “My brain felt like it shut down
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and wasn’t working and life became even more challenging than it was before,” she said. “I couldn’t work and I couldn’t go to school and I had to take a medical leave from school.” Her life’s course altered once again in January when she came through the doors of the Prince George Brain Injured Group (PG BIG). “I hadn’t lived in a place where there was a place like this to go to,” Corbiere said. — see ‘MY LIFE, page 3
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