The 10 most lavish expenditures revealed in VCH and BC Housing’s audits of the Portland Hotel Society.

Totally Outright is a four-day leadership workshop for young gay, bisexual, trans and queer guys aged 18 to 26 interested in being healthy, sex-savvy peer leaders in the community. The program receives funding from Providence Health Care.

A research team at VGH hires those diagnosed with bipolar disorder to be part of the research. This is article three of a four-part series sponsored by the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation.

“I am proud of many things in this city, but I can’t say that (VCH’s) Insite is one of them.”

“(Portland Hotel Society’s) problem, in my view, is they create and enable more problems than they solve.”

So far, 100 suspected cases of the measles have been reported in Chilliwack and Agassiz. With quotes from Dr. John Carsley and Dr. Meena Dawar, medical health officers for VCH.

Federal NDP health critic Libby Davis is concerned politics will get in the way of keeping the InSite safe injection site open. With quotes from Viola Kaminski, a spokesperson at VCH.

Lemtrada, a new therapy for those with MS, has been approved in Canada. With quotes from Dr. Anthony Traboulsee, a neurologist with VCH.

Two Metro Vancouver women’s centres and one Vancouver Island clinic are facing 400 per cent increases to regulatory fees charged by the College of Physicians and Surgeons this year. With mention of a joint letter from VCH and Vancouver Island Health sent to the college.

“The organization has established innovative and effective harm-reduction interventions for a very difficult-to-reach population.” Written by Mark Townsend, co-executive director of the Portland Hotel Society.