This free, public event features mental health speaker, educator, actor and writer Victoria Maxwell and aims to shed new light on the topic of mental health and stigma.

Tick season descends upon the coast. Mention of Powell River General Hospital and quotes from VCH’s Dr. Paul Martiquet.

Construction on a six-storey complex at 3595 Kingsway will be completed in the summer of 2019. It will feature commercial and retail space at grade, as well as 44 units of rental housing earmarked for low-income seniors and market rental units. VCH was involved with the relocation plan for former tenants.

VCH is now testing schools on the Sunshine Coast for radon gas, the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking.

Eighteen B.C. communities, including Richmond, will get about $83,000 each, on average, to form a “comprehensive community-level response” to the drug crisis from VCH’s Overdose Response Centre. With quotes from Dr. Patricia Daly.

A man shot by police while waving a two by four on a Vancouver street in 2014 was arrested months before outside a Richmond casino for kicking down garbage cans and displaying homicidal thoughts, a British Columbia coroner’s inquest into the death heard Monday.

Dr. Tara Sedlak from the Leslie Diamond Women’s Heart Health Centre joins us for our Health Series to talk about women and heart disease.

Vancouver’s Portland Hotel Society has been quietly running an opioid substitution program for more than a year. Mention of Crosstown Clinic.

Profile of two Catholic spiritual workers working at Vancouver General Hospital, Sister Cecilia Cham and Father Jude Iloghalu.

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