VCH and La Leche League Canada – Sunshine Coast are partnering this year to hold the Sunshine Coast Breastfeeding Challenge on Saturday, October 5.

The plan to allow only social housing and rental units will keep the DTES crime-ridden and impoverished.

“Vancouver continues to face a civic crisis involving homelessness. There are recurrent calls for more emergency services and acute interventions.” Submitted on behalf of Providence Healthcare, UBC, SFU and the Vancouver At Home research team.

“We need to make moves to improve mental health in our city and country — and these change agents will be trained and ready to make this possible.”

Except for Quebec, provincial laws punish patients for seeking private services, when public ones are unavailable, says Dr. Brian Day.

“B.C. has the ingredients to compete internationally, but our life sciences sector needs more support from the provincial and federal governments.” With mention of UBC’s Brain Research Centre and the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is setting up a task force to tackle mental health and addictions.

This week, VCH pleaded with provincial government for higher prices, stricter warnings and a continued moratorium on private liquor store expansion. With quotes from a VCH brief.

A Vancouver Police Department study details a number of serious problems including a large number of violent incidents involving people with untreated mental illnesses

A 91-year-old Lions Gate Hospital patient was sent home at five in the morning. No date is given for this incident.