Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. I'm Sam Gruet on assignment this week in Canada.

It's a place I've called home for the last couple of years, most recently in Vancouver on the West Coast.

It's a beautiful place with sandy beaches, snow-cap mountains and towering fir trees. But it's also been dealing with its own challenges,

mainly around drug addiction and mental health.

Hello, I'll let you anyone but not have work.

Hi, Chrissy.

Hi.

How are you?

Christy Watkins steps out of the elevator slowly.

She walks with small, uneasy steps, resting on a walking stick.

Her baggy t-shirt with graphic print, cap and gold jewelry wouldn't be out of place at a music festival.

And she is a DJ after all I have to be moving all the time

to feel a little bit better

she guides us slowly

through the ground floor

of her apartment building

stopping to show us her fingers

then I can deal with the potential broken bone.

Yeah, you're just dealing with one in your entire.

This is a really nice little garden.

Christy takes us into a small private garden where we sit.

She tells us about another day around six weeks earlier. Yeah, it was a really, really

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