By Pamela Haasen, CICK 93.9 Smithers Community Radio, Local Journalism Initiative
As the fourth wave of COVID-19 continues, Intensive Care Unit doctors and nurses are sounding the alarm. They’re saying the health care system in northern B.C. is in trouble.
Continue reading BC Nurses Union President quits and asks Gov to reconsider October mandatory vaccinations for nursesThough they believe vaccine passports violate Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, anti-vaxers will find this very difficult to prove in court, says a lawyer with UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law.
The key question in this debate is whether vaccine passports are mandated or an option.
Continue reading The COVID vaccine passport and Charter rightsBy Pamela Haasen, CICK 93.9 Smithers Community Radio, Local Journalism Initiative
CICK News requested a quote from the Northern Detachment of the RCMP in regards to what their response would be if potential patrons to businesses were to become unruly.
Continue reading Northern BC RCMP response to COVID passportCKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Most of the 64 active COVID-19 cases in North Vancouver Island are probably in Greater Campbell River or the Comox Valley.
Continue reading COVID-19 update for greater Campbell River and the Comox ValleyNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It’s mind-boggling communities across Canada must still organize for an annual awareness day to draw public and policymakers’ attention to poisoned street drugs and an ongoing health crisis that has killed more than 21,000 people in just five years, advocates say.
Continue reading Canada’s drug policy — not drugs — is killing people at record numbers, advocates say
