Continued efforts to improve water quality in False Creek discussed. Mention of VCH’s water quality report having extremely high bacterial count for the area.

Public health researcher says radon exposure on Vancouver’s North Shore and the Sea-to-Sky corridor is a potential health hazard and wants B.C. government to change building codes to reflect the risk. VCH also conducting tests in schools.

The Yukon Employees Union says the Whitehorse Hospital is planning to outsource its microbiology lab testing to St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.

Mayor Brodie talks about work the city has done in the past three years and shares his vision for building a secure and vibrant community in 2018. Richmond Hospital mentioned.

Profile on “safe” injection sites and discusses the fentanyl checking program at Insite.

Philadelphia, San Francisco, and other U.S. cities are considering opening supervised injection site and look to VCH’s Insite, North America’s first legal supervised injection site.

The ambitious budget prepared by BC Minister of Finance Carole James focuses on housing affordability, childcare, and increasing provided services.

A group of health-care professionals dedicated to improving palliative care is defending hospices in B.C.’s Lower Mainland that don’t want to provide medically assisted dying to their patients.

ASCO’s Conquer Cancer Foundation announced the recipients of its Merit Awards in gastrointestinal cancers, clinical immuno-oncology, genitourinary cancers, and cancer survivorship.

Vancouver’s new mobile pump-out service collected 20,000 litres of raw sewage from boaters in False Creek over the course of 37 days last summer