Moira Wyton
Mom files rights complaint alleging ‘fat shaming’ at B.C. hospital
Thirty-one weeks pregnant with her first child, Sara Lindberg thought her consultation with an obstetrician…
‘Exhausting and heartbreaking’: The other side of eased COVID measures in B.C.
“Since protections lifted, I don’t leave the house,” says Jaigris Hodson. Hodson is being treated…
It’s not over: B.C. experts warn of new COVID wave
As British Columbia ends mask mandates and other pandemic measures, an independent group of experts…
Experts reject B.C.’s safe drug supply claims
Seventeen months after the B.C. government committed to expanding safe supply, only about 500 people…
B.C. is creating confusion with COVID communications, say critics
British Columbia’s recent decision to manage the highly transmissible Omicron variant more like the common…
The test trap for long COVID patients in B.C.
Biking 20 kilometres to and from her classes at Langara every day was the norm…
Forced mental health treatment spikes in B.C.
Almost 20,000 individuals were admitted to B.C. hospitals against their will for psychiatric treatment between…
With B.C. in emergency mode, people who use drugs need help now
Many more people could die from toxic drugs in the coming days and weeks unless…
‘Something so sacred has been taken away from me’: For some, the devastating sexual side-effect of antidepressants
Emily had taken the antidepressant Citalopram since she was 17, before sex even entered the…
B.C. lacks key data on COVID patients who end up back in hospital
Thousands of British Columbians who were hospitalized due to COVID-19 are likely returning to the…
Child COVID cases dropping in B.C. after back-to-school spike
After a big jump in child COVID-19 cases following the return to school, British Columbia…
He went to the ER in Victoria for help and instead ended up battered
Tawnee Chipps knows pain and the hopelessness it can bring. For more than a year,…
Where the federal leaders stand on the toxic drug crisis
When drug policy advocate Leslie McBain looks through the platforms of Canada’s major political parties,…
B.C. hospitals face crisis, must toughen COVID restrictions: experts
Hospitals across B.C. could soon be overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients unless tougher public health measures…
As campus life returns in B.C. will toxic drug deaths increase?
Students returning to the post-secondary party scene this fall will be at a greater risk…