

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Compassionate Justice Video Speaker Series - Dr Vincent Lam: Drug Addiction: A Front-Row Seat
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Having compassion for those who live with drug addiction often can only be fully realized through direct experience with those afflicted. Dr Vincent Lam’s practice has been as an emergency physician and now a director of an addiction clinic in downtown Toronto. He is also an author who has written compellingly on this world through the avenue of fiction entitled On The Ravine.

Please join us to watch the recorded talk and discuss Dr Lam's ideas. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.

To help us plan, RSVP - https://forms.gle/vaBccdnKSkTW36nx8

This event is part of a six-part series, presented by the Mir Centre for Peace, with videos provided by the organizer - Eglinton St George’s - and main funder, The Globe and Mail. We are grateful to them both for making these videos available. This talk is co-sponsored by the Rural Pre-Medicine (RPM) Program. 

For dates, times, location, and descriptions of all the talks in the series, please see https://selkirk.ca/events/compassionate-justice-video-speaker-series

If you aren't on the Castlegar campus, you can access the recordings of past speakers on their website - https://www.compassionatejustice.ca/

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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Castlegar
- **state**: BC
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Mir Centre for Peace at Selkirk College, Castlegar
- **lat**: 49.31176
- **long**: -117.65178
- **full address**: Mir Centre for Peace at Selkirk College, Castlegar, Canada

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mir Centre for Peace at Selkirk College, Castlegar, Canada
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Mir Centre for Peace at Selkirk College
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Compassionate Justice Video Speaker Series - Dr Vincent Lam: Drug Addiction: A Front-Row Seat ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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