By Louis Belcourt, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
The Campbell River and North Island Transition Society is looking for private safe homes to shelter women and children fleeing violence on Cortes Island.
The society works closely with the Cortes Island Women’s Resource Centre to help provide services, resource and shelter for those in need.
Continue reading Volunteer safe homes needed on Cortes Island: women’s centre
In the third of a series of interviews leading up to the October 15 election, Area C candidate Robyn Mawhinney describes some of the challenges emergency services face on Quadra Island.
“Every month on Quadra Island, there are multiple days where there are no paramedics available, as well as no after hours emergency ferry,” she explained.
Continue reading Mawhinney: Challenges Emergency Services currently face on Quadra Island
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A remote B.C. island community is anxious as it faces a two-week overnight closure of its local emergency room due to the ongoing medical staffing crisis across the province.
Island Health announced the closure of Alert Bay ER in the Cormorant Island Community Health Centre from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. nightly, which started Tuesday and will last until Aug. 16.
Continue reading Alert Bay residents worried as overnight ER services shut down for two weeks
By Moira Wyton, The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
When Jackson Hern asked his primary care doctor about getting the monkeypox vaccine in Seattle last week, he was surprised by the lack of information she had to offer.
Concerns about a rising number of monkeypox cases among gay men in Seattle had been all over Hern’s social media accounts.
But Hern, 29, found out he wouldn’t be eligible for a vaccine against the virus in Seattle until the fall.
That is, until a friend told him he’d been able to get one in Vancouver, and sent Hern the link to book an appointment.
Continue reading Why Monkeypox Vaccine Tourism Is a Good Thing
By Gita Abraham, New Canadian Media, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Religions, beliefs, culture, and even local history influence what Canadians — especially immigrants — think should happen to the body after death. These beliefs and traditions surrounding death could impact medical research opportunities.
In Ontario, medical schools depend on donated bodies to train future medical professionals. ‘Body donation’ involves a whole body given to schools of anatomy for educational and research purposes.
Continue reading Organ donations remain a hard sell among some groups
