Connect Whistler, an annual event aimed at getting new residents better acquainted with their new town, returns with full schedule of activities. Mention of VCH’s naloxone training session.

As harm reduction programs grow across the country, providing clean needles to drug users, residents in some communities are calling on local governments to do more to clean up public spaces where they say discarded syringes are posing a risk. Mention of VCH’s mobile needle exchange program and hotline.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says a controversial project housing 78 homeless people in the city’s southern Marpole neighbourhood will go ahead despite protests from residents angry that the modular homes will be placed near three schools.

Whistler Mental Health and Substance Use Services from Vancouver Coastal Health is hosting a naloxone training session as part of Connect Whistler 2017.

Aereus Technologies, a manufacturer that uses a proprietary copper alloy process, announced today that data from a year-long pilot study at Vancouver General Hospital demonstrated a “statistically significant reduction of microbial bioburden on copper surfaces versus non-copper surfaces.”

The BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit and the BC Falls and Injury Prevention Coalition are sharing tips that will help keep seniors safe. Quotes from a VCH Research Institute spokesperson.

Opponents of safe injection sites in King County have based many arguments on the poor conditions surrounding Vancouver B.C.’s Insite facility. But one journalist argues they are missing a bigger picture.

An opinion poll asks readers whether opposition to a social housing project in Marpole is just NIMBYism or whether it is justified.

A group of residents armed with placards and posters took to the streets of Vancouver’s Marpole neighbourhood Monday morning to protest the construction of a temporary modular housing project for the homeless.

Indigenous youth who use drugs in B.C. are 13 times more likely to die than all other youth in the same age group across the country. That’s according to a new study, which singled out young women and those involved with injection drug use to be at the highest risk.