In 2012, Vancouver’s North Shore had the lowest vaccination rates in the province. With quotes from Dr. Meena Dawar, public health officer at VCH.

“But we are talking about more than relationships here. We are talking about perception. And the public is allowed to look on the growing swamp that is the Downtown Eastside and wonder if the provincial government has done its best to clean that swamp or has allowed it to grow.”

Atira Women Resource Society has raised concerns with auditors about its ability to survive. With mention of the interim board at Portland Hotel Society including VCH staff.

One of the key concerns raised in audits of the Portland Hotel Society is at least eight spinoff companies that owe the non-profit nearly $500,000.

Participants in a clinical trial fighting to receive prescription heroin may have failed conventional treatments only because they received inadequate dosages, a lawyer for the federal government has told a B.C. Supreme Court judge.

A rise in mental-health-related calls to police has prompted a first-ever, nationwide partnership between Canada’s police and mental-health leaders.

Providence Health Care and the Pivot Legal Society are taking their fight for prescription heroin to court.

A battle between Providence Health Care doctors and the federal government over the prescription of heroin is set to enter Supreme Court.

Four fired executives from the Portland Hotel Society are receiving up to eight-weeks’ severance pay plus accumulated vacation pay.

B.C.’s housing minister says the Portland Hotel Society operated for a number of years without raising any reason for concern.