National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Where’s the plan?
That was the dominant question asked Thursday as B.C.’s chief coroner Lisa Lapointe announced 1,716 people died from toxic street drugs in 2020, marking the worst year on record for the province.
Continue reading worst year on record for drug overdoses: 1,716 deathsDr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix issued a joint written statement urging British Columbians to stay home during the Family Day long weekend and Lunar New Year approach:
Continue reading COVID Update: Stay home for Family Day WeekendBy Odette Auger, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, also Lindsay Sample and Emilee Gilpin, the Discourse
Several current and former staff at Island Health are raising concerns after what they say has been a dismantling of the Indigenous Health department’s cultural safety facilitation team.
The staff allege that during the province’s 2020 investigation into Indigenous-specific racism in the health care system detrimental changes were made to their team. This included the firing of long-time cultural safety facilitator and then-Acting South Island Manager of Indigenous Health, Yvette Ringham-Cowan.
Continue reading Workers tackling anti-Indigenous racism: scapegoating and ‘backlash’ at Island Healththe Discourse, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
COVID-19 has impacted everyone — Elders, parents, youth, and children — in different ways. For some families who divide their time between communities, closures and lockdowns have made connecting difficult. However many have inspiring resilience. The Atleo family is one of them.
Continue reading COVID’s impact on an Indigenous familyThe most recent map of the Geographic distribution of COVID cases, shows data in the North Vancouver Island Area up to Saturday, January 30th. At that point there were four (4) cases in the Greater Campbell River Area, which includes Cortes, Quadra and the rest of the the Discovery Islands, one in the Comox Valley and one in Vancouver Island West.
Continue reading COVID Update: Greater Campbell River & Vancouver Island
