Daphne Bramham: Sadly, children and youth are still not a political priority
B.C. government has ignored 89 per cent of the children and youth representative's recommendations over the past five years. Shame on it.
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Healthy communities require more than medical care
Opinion: Instead of increased medical spending, reallocating money from it to housing, poverty reduction and education might make us all healthier
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Change isn't coming fast enough for ailing Canadians — just...
For two years, Anna Cain went to walk-in clinics but got sicker. Finally, diagnosed with cancer, she's now on a wait list for a specialist.
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Corporate ownership of medical clinics raises worries,...
Opinion: It may be too late for governments to regulate this quiet takeover of a key health-care sector
View ArticleB.C. government announces $440-million plan to expand cancer care
Premier David Eby says the money will go to expanding service and screening programs. It will also support cancer research, Indigenous patients, and those who must travel for care from rural communities.
View ArticleThe price of self-representation in B.C. courts: two stress leaves and sale...
Two stress leaves and sale of the family home was the toll for a Comox woman
View ArticleThe grassroots movement that made contraception free in B.C.
AccessBC, which lobbied for the policy, began as a two-person bull session in a Saanich kitchen seven years ago
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Free money to throw at an intractable problem? What's not to...
Opinion: Conservative leader promises to launch a $44-billion lawsuit, with the money going to fund addiction treatment and recovery
View ArticleReport aims to help make walking to school easier, safer in Metro Vancouver
A recent study highlights Metro schools that could be best served by spending to make walking and biking easier and safer
View ArticleGovernment needs to 'step up' mental health funding, says B.C. children's...
Children's representative says NDP's 'reset' on mental health funding is an opportunity to improve badly needed services for youth.
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Sadly, children and youth are still not a political priority
B.C. government has ignored 89 per cent of the children and youth representative's recommendations over the past five years. Shame on it.
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Why are so many kids in B.C. government care going missing?
Opinion: Perhaps too many find government care so bad, they'd rather be homeless
View ArticleTrevor Hargreaves: Current approach to policy-making is failing us
Opinion: We've had too many policies that sound great from a podium but do not deliver positive outcomes — and in some cases even generate negative unintended consequences.
View ArticleShortage of maternity doctors on Vancouver Island leaves pregnant women...
The number of maternity GPs has shrunk to about 25 from 48 over the past two years in south Vancouver Island
View ArticleFood insecurity: A healthy diet cost a B.C. family $1,263 a month last year,...
People and households on low incomes, especially those on income or disability assistance, can't afford a healthy diet after paying rent
View ArticleSnowing in May? No that's cottonwood seed. Here's why white fluff is flying...
Experts say allergy sufferers are more likely experiencing pollen at this time of year than the cottonwood seed.
View ArticleFor one gay couple, it will take some luck — and a surrogate — to become fathers
Port Moody couple Aaron and Kyle Demes have been talking about being dads since their first date. They just need someone to help carry their child.
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Religious exemptions make mockery of assisted dying law
Dying people are suffering because provinces won't force taxpayer-funded, faith-based health facilities to provide medically assisted dying.
View Article100 Mile House boy's death linked to wildfire smoke, B.C. health officials warn
The B.C. Coroners Service says it is investigating the death of nine-year-old Carter Vigh and how it relates to smoke from wildfires
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Hope for eradicating AIDS and slowing Alzheimer's
There is good news to offset all the bad. AIDS could be eradicated by 2050 and there is now more hope for managing Alzheimer's.
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