Keith Maxwell supports the changes saying the uncertainty for staff is worth the 20 extra beds and that the terms at Silverstone seem fair.

Resident sees VCH’s decision for long-term care in Sechelt as a challenge to women’s rights when they lose employment and wage security.

Dealing with the growing fentanyl crisis is now one of the Sunshine Coast RCMP detachment’s top priorities, Staff Sgt. Vishal Mathura told the regional policing committee

Dr. Scott MacDonald, lead physician at Crosstown, says the program was modelled after supervised heroin assistance treatment that started in Switzerland in the 1990s.

VGH is testing out the use of iPads and pre-recorded videos of family members as a way to comfort dementia patients

The former head of orthopedic surgery at St. Paul’s has written a book on how the Canadian health care system should be reformed. Now with an American hospital, he says his Canadian experience included “stifling” bureaucracy, shoddy infection control practices and a lack of accountability and transparency.

Interview with Bonnie Wilson, VCH Director of Home Support, Complex Rehab and Supported Housing, about a new substance treatment centre for women in the DTES.

Drug-using rooms are springing up in government-funded housing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in response to the growing number of deaths.

The city proposes to spend $2.1 million on fire fighters, a new community policing centre and more training for city staff. With quotes from Dr. Reka Gustafson, medical health officer for VCH.

Vancouver councillors are preparing to spend millions to respond to overdoses in the city, but they say it’s up to provincial and federal governments to tackle the crisis.