The controversial Trellis Seniors Services long-term care home slated for Sechelt is now to be built in Gibsons after a land deal with the town.

A 135-bed long-term care home originally slated to be built in Sechelt by Trellis Seniors Services will move to Gibsons instead.

A young boy in Richmond has endured 18 operations after contracting flesh-eating disease from a classmate. His father wants public health officials to notify parents immediately when potentially deadly infections have been diagnosed in classrooms.

Members of the public express their opposition to the VCH-Trellis deal.

Trellis’ development project for a long-term care facility in Sechelt has stalled, and the town of Gibsons has offered to sell Trellis a property. The writer argues that the move means that Sechelt will lose and Gibsons will gain tax revenue, jobs, economic spin-offs, and social benefits.

After expressing frustration with the way its development application has been handled by the District of Sechelt, Trellis Seniors Services has struck a deal to buy land for a new long-term care facility from the Town of Gibsons. VCH awarded Trellis a contract to build a facility in 2016.

The Downtown Eastside is in mourning after Tracey Morrison passed away on July 15. For more than a decade, housing and drug-policy activist Tracey Morrison fought for equality and improved rights for low-income people living in the Downtown Eastside.

BC schools have $5 billion worth of deferred maintenance issues. In one case, parents at Henry Hudson elementary school in Vancouver complained for eight years about the school’s unsanitary bathrooms. An order from VCH prompted the school district to repair the bathrooms.

Article cites VCH’s new release on trampoline safety for kids, and gives tips to parents on how to prevent injuries on trampolines.

The NDP party forms a new government in BC. Seismic capabilities of Richmond Hospital are questioned.