
How rural hospitals could cut BC’s surgery wait times
Performing minor surgeries in rural hospitals could help improve the provincial surgery backlog without cutting corners on the quality of health care, according to one rural health expert.

Does where you live affect how much sleep you need?
What country you live in determines how many hours of sleep you need per night…

Kelowna companies won’t run pro-choice billboards
The crowdfunded campaign aims to counter anti-abortion billboards in the region.

Kelowna’s tent city policies ‘make people want to give up’
Members of Kelowna’s unhoused population and local housing advocates are warning that a new city…

BC has no workplace temperature limits. Advocates want change
Ingrid Mendez, executive director of the Migrant Workers Centre

This American snitch line reports Canadians providing gender-affirming care
The U.S. government is collecting data on health-care workers providing gender-affirming care in Canada. In…

Many mental health calls in BC don’t require cops, program shows
A mobile, community-led crisis response team based in six communities across British Columbia is showing…

Garth Mullins on surviving decades of the war on drugs
CONTENT ADVISORY Garth Mullins has experienced first-hand the way society disenfranchises people who use drugs,…

Harm reduction credited for reducing Indigenous fatalities in BC
Toxic drug deaths for First Nations peoples decreased by 6.8 per cent in British Columbia…

Where the federal parties stand on the toxic drug crisis
Close to 51,000 Canadians died from apparent opioid toxicity between January 2016 and September 2024,…

How racial bias affects asthma testing in BC
Work to dismantle racism in breath testing won’t be as simple as trying to remove…

Why do BC patients pay to access free opioid agonist treatment?
A group that has been fighting to improve access to opioid agonist therapy for decades…

BC’s measles vaccination rate is lower than in Gaines County, Texas
In Gaines County, Texas, where a measles outbreak has killed one six-year-old and one adult,…

Having group sex? BC researchers want to hear from you
University of Victoria researchers want to know how Canadians are having group sex. The only…

Some physiotherapists fear ICBC changes will hurt crash victims
Some physiotherapy clinics are warning that recent updates to ICBC’s health-care services terms could reduce…