Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:20:14 +0000
Purdue, the maker of the pain drug OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy in the United States and proposed a multibillion-dollar plan to settle with thousands of state and local governments.
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Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 21:08:44 +0000
So-called hospital or birth alerts have “primarily” been used in cases involving marginalized women and “disproportionately” in births for Indigenous women
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Credit to Author: Nick Eagland| Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 23:43:01 +0000
John Douglas, a paramedic for 23 years, calls for B.C. to make addiction and possession of addictive substances solely a health issue.
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Credit to Author: Nick Eagland| Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:54:18 +0000
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities passed Mayor Kennedy Stewart’s motion, which also calls for the declaration of a national public health emergency.
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Credit to Author: Malcolm Parry| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:00:47 +0000
Treana welcomed former South Sudanese child soldier Emmanuel Jal who is now a Toronto-based singer, screen actor, political activist and leadership lecturer.
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Credit to Author: Glenda Luymes| Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 23:42:41 +0000
Recreational access will remain, meaning B.C. won’t be responsible for blowing a hole in the 24,000 kilometre trail network that links Canada from coast to coast to coast
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Credit to Author: Malcolm Parry| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:00:03 +0000
GOING DUTCH: Last year, Netherlands native Otto Tausk succeeded British-born Bramwell Tovey as Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s music director. Then, as what the Dutch might call tit voor tat, Nederlands Dans Theater snagged Regina-born Ballet B.C.’s artistic director, Emily Molnar, to lead its 27- and 18-dancer companies. Former Ballet B.C. dancer Molnar has steered the once-moribund […]
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Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:19:38 +0000
The B.C. government says it’s expanding its substitute drug program to include 1,700 patients with diseases such as Crohn’s and colitis
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Credit to Author: Cheryl Chan| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 22:47:47 +0000
UBC’s Vancouver campus has been steadily increasing free mental health services for students since 2015
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Credit to Author: Pamela Fayerman| Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 13:30:04 +0000
Experts predict the “landmark” study will have immediate implications for heart attack patients as interventional cardiologists will now stent additional coronary arteries with significant narrowing (more than 70 per cent) instead of just the culprit artery that caused the heart attack
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