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                           Links to Jim's "Courage to Come Back" Award Media coverage.



The First Link Below is the Award Ceremony!

  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B85WfzLNzvSma1dsMTdPc0lkOTQ/view

  • http://www.theprovince.com/health/courage/Courage+Come+Back+Dying+hospital+changed+life/10947528/story.html
  • http://www.news1130.com/2015/04/06/courage-to-come-back-social-adversity-winner-keeps-youth-on-the-straight-and-narrow/


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Jim Mandelin speaks to a grade 12 law class at Pinetree Secondary School in Coquitlam BC,

A question of, "Should police start a name and shame the gang members," campaign and get the bars and restaurants to not allow gang members into their places of business. Jim finds this to be dangerous to the employees of these establishments as it takes the policing and puts it into the hands of citizens with no way for these citizens to protect themselves from retaliation.  Jim weighs in on this subject. Click the CBC News link below.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/04/26/bc-gang-crackdown-police-naming.html
Full Movie, "Both Sides Of The Coin"
To watch the full Documentary please visit:   https://vimeo.com/100451388    Vimeo Password is: Coin2014

Both Sides of the Coin
The above video is called, "Both Sides of the Coin."  It was produced for television by Images for Thought Productions, Vancouver, B.C. in 1992 and features Jim Mandelin and Graham Cook. In this documentary, Jim's perspective is representative of the victim, and Graham's perspective is representative of the perpetrator.  This documentary won the Runner-up Award at the New York Film and Television Festival in 1992.   

'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein. 

'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
' Henry David Thoreau.