By Moira Wyton, The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A Vancouver city council meeting Tuesday on a proposed overdose prevention site near upscale condos and apartments in the Yaletown neighbourhood highlighted deep divides over the response to the deadly overdose crisis.
Continue reading Heated exchange over Response to Vancouver’s overdose crisis
This program was funded by a grant from the Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Government of Canada’s Local Journalism Initiative.
Statistics released by the BC Centre for Disease Control show that our area is relatively COVID free.
These are found on a series of maps, and a weekly report, released on Thursday, October 8th.
However a CHEK news report of two cases at Carihi Secondary School in Campbell River could change this.
Continue reading Campbell River Health Area is relatively COVID freeThe Canada-info.ca website is a showcase of community journalism, from previously underserved communities across the nation, by journalists hired as part of the Local Journalism Initiative (LJI). This project was launched by the Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) in early 2020 and will continue until March 31, 2021. Twenty-two community and student radio stations are participating. The radio programs below were posted to Canada-info.ca incorporated into the Cortes Currents broadcast, on Cortes Radio, CKTZ 89.5 FM, on Saturdays 1-2 PM and repeated Wednesdays 9-10 AM.
Continue reading Reposts from Canada-Info.cathe Discourse, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
First Nations individuals living on reserve had COVID-19 rates that were one quarter of the rate of the general population — what can be learned from this?
Continue reading COVID 19 rates of Indigenous peoples living on reserve is one quarter of the general populationsBy Martha Perkins, North Shore News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The images were heartbreaking — a senior citizen, alone in their nursing home bedroom while, on the other side of the window, a family member stands outside and tries to establish some kind of connection to ease the sense of isolation and foreboding.
Continue reading Designing a safer nursing home for COVID times
