By Louis Belcourt, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Spring and summer is the time to be cautious about ticks and Lyme disease, and this year the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) has created an interactive map to help people see if they reside in a high-risk tick area.
Continue reading Cortes Island, other areas in B.C. highlighted as high-risk for ticks in new online map
By Moira Wyton, The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The BC Green Party says urgent action is needed to address the province’s “collapsing” health-care system.
And its two MLAs are planning a series of meetings across the province this summer to hear from health-care workers and patients on solutions.
Continue reading BC Greens Launch Hearings on Health-Care ‘Crisis’
By Cloe Logan, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
In the late 1980s, the federal government banned all cigarette ads — photos making a carcinogenic product look appealing went against public health advice. Now, many physicians are saying the same should apply to fossil fuel advertising.
Continue reading Doctors’ groups push for truth in advertising when it comes to fossil fuelsJust when we need our entire minds, we seem to be losing them. This is the considered opinion of Johann Hari, a British-Swiss writer and journalist, writing in a Guardian Weekly feature, “Focus (If You Still Can)” (Jan. 7, 2022).
It’s not that we’re losing all our minds, just about 20%, according to studies. This is a critical amount considering that we’re confronting some of the most serious threats to our survival in the history of human civilization, and the capabilities we need to make crucially important decisions are precisely the ones being compromised.
Continue reading The Quadra Project: losing our minds
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The grieving moms who headed to Ottawa Wednesday to urge federal MPs of all stripes to support an NDP bill designed to tackle the deadly toxic drug crisis found their pleas fell on deaf ears.
Most Liberal MPs, and Conservative members without exception, voted against Bill C-216 to decriminalize the simple possession of illegal drugs nationally and shape a federal strategy for safer alternatives to poisoned street supply.
Continue reading ‘We are losing a whole generation of Canadians’: Bill to curb toxic drug deaths defeated
