A Smoky Skies Bulletin has been issued for the entire Sea to Sky Corridor. VCH recommends avoiding strenuous outdoor activity.

Meals at Willingdon Creek Village and Evergreen Care Unit improved due to public scrutiny, but have fallen back to the same level, according to community advocates.

Canada’s western schools have actively updated curriculum to reflect the continuing fentanyl crisis. With quotes from Mark Lysyshyn, medical health officer at VCH.

A Smoky Skies Bulletin has been issued for the entire Sea to Sky Corridor. VCH recommends avoiding strenuous outdoor activity.

VCH is expanding pilot program to offer fentanyl testing at three more locations.

A grade 6 boy from a Richmond elementary school has been crippled by a rare bacterial infection. His father is taking his fight to change school notification policies to the B.C. Ministry of Health.

SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement has released a 20-minute documentary that depicts how activists in the Downtown Eastside responded to the arrival of fentanyl. VCH’s past closure of unsanctioned supervised-injection sites is mentioned by the documentary filmmaker.

There is a disparity in different provinces in the drug education programming for school-age kids. The School Age Children and Youth program, a partnership between VCH and the Vancouver School Board is mentioned. VCH medical health officer Mark Lysyshyn is quoted.

The High Hopes Foundation hands out non-lethal pain relievers to keep drug users away from fentanyl. The City of Vancouver state that they are waiting to hear from VCH on whether it agrees with the foundation’s approach to hand out pain relievers.

At the upcoming Union of B.C. Municipalities, Squamish council will petition to change how rape kits are accessed across the province. VCH’s Laurie Leith is quoted.