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RE: https://bclocal.news/@kamloops/116966126264936703
“In order for us to serve you better, please remember to plan your emergencies around these outages.”
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3 years ago today, we lost my Dad. We've never recovered from that traumatic loss. Dad suffered a premature death due to unmasked people in hospital, where he was infected with covid. That set off latent TB, which he recovered from in hospital. The covid infection he never fully recovered from. It damaged his heart, which didn't have issues prior to covid infection. That led to his long covid cardiac arrest death.
This is one of the big reasons I'm vigilant about masking up & get upset at folks who stopped masking & are enabling more eugenics in our communities. I lost my Dad because of reckless unmasked people. I have one Aunt disabled from long covid & in a wheelchair. How many more lives need to sacrificed for eugenics, inhumane public health & basic lack of concern for others?
We are having quiet, family ceremonies for my Dad's memorial, today ❤️💗❤️
Love is infinite.#InfiniteLove #FamilyPhotos #ForeverLoved #CovidKills #MasksSaveLives #CovidSafety #StopEugenics #BCHealth #BCpoli #BonnieHenrySocialMurderer #SocialMurder #Father #Dad #Family #Love #Memorial #AsianMastodon #PublicHealth #BCNewDeathParty #BCGovernment #BCNDPKilledMyDad #Covid #LongCovid
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"B.C.'s Energy Regulator told LNG Canada to identify the root cause of black smoke emissions during flaring at its Kitimat facility, implement a fix by October [2026]."
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and other environmental groups, stated:
▪️ the facility has been exceeding monthly authorized emissions for several months
▪️ flaring activity exposed residents to "health-harming chemicals, including black carbon and benzyne."https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lng-canada-kitimat-flaring-9.7200515
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Tell policy-makers BC demands access to #Novavax
This form lets you email several BC decision-makers at once – from the BCCDC, to your MLA, to BC Health Minister Josie Osborne and Dr. Bonnie Henry and their deputies.https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-novavax-access-in-bc-for-2026-27?source=direct_link&
#BCpoli #CDNpoli #EmailCampaign #EmailMLA #EmailMP #BritishColumbia #BCHealth #Vaccines #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #Canada #ProtectBC #Medical #HealthCare
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Meeting between researchers and City of Dawson Creek council (Feb 9, 2026) -- on the potential harms and health outcomes of oil and gas activity in northeast B.C.:
🩻 "52 studies on populations living near fracked gas from 2000 to 2022, finding that a large majority of the studies reported greater risks for impaired fetal growth, premature birth, congenital malformations, childhood cancer and heart disease."
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🇨🇦 Canada Health Act annual report, 2024-2025:
Whoa, 👀
"British Columbia has made positive strides to implement components of its RAP to improve access and eliminate patient charges for medically necessary diagnostic services..."
"The province also directed private clinics to stop charging patients for insured MRI services... In recognition of these efforts, a partial reimbursement [of $ millions] was issued."
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@ZenHeathen
It absolutely does.If they can opt out of MAID for idealogical reasons, they can similarly refuse to provide access to reproductive healthcare or trans healthcare. In Alberta, they’ve taken this a step further and are trying to turn public hospitals over to faith-based group like Covenant Health, making them the defacto health authority.
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H/t: #BCHumanistSociety
END RELIGIOUS EXCEPTIONS IN BC HEALTHCARE
Public Funds, Public Care
Every year, over a billion dollars of your tax dollars goes to healthcare facilities run by religious organizations. These hospitals are allowed to refuse legal, essential medical services including medical assistance in dying, abortion and contraceptives based on their management's religious dogma.
In 2026, terminally ill patients are still being forced out of their hospital beds just to access their legal right to a peaceful death. This is a violation of patient dignity and human rights.
Public funding should come with a public obligation. No British Columbian should be denied care or forced to undergo a dehumanizing transfer because the hospital bed they are in is governed by a church instead of the provincial health authority.
It is time to put patients before pews. Sign this petition to demand a truly secular, provincial healthcare system.
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Update: we got mom to hospital last night. In speaking with her doctor we felt it was the best way to get her the tests she needs in a timely fashion; he’s concerned that her breast cancer could have metastasized to her spine and that could be why her back is all messed up. And the best way to get a CT scan (and the other tests she needs) quickly is at the hospital. And since we had no way to get her safely downstairs we had to call an ambulance so they could safely bring her down and transport her to the hospital.
It’s fucked because it seems like such a waste of valuable resources (hospital bed, EHS) when those things are in such short supply, but there really was no other option.
There has to be a better way…
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I love this idea and I have a friend whose husband is there. It seems to have helped him be less angry at his situation #canada #vancouver #langleybc #bchealth CBC News : Inside a B.C. ‘dementia village' that researchers hope could reshape long-term care www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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This article doesn’t tell me enough to understand much about the different funding models or form an opinion on which is preferable. I know there’s a couple of docs on my feed. Anyone care to offer an opinion?
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Paying for healthcare is the stupidest thing ever.
My poor old moms has been laid up with a crook back for weeks now and is desperate for relief. Her doc put her on a wait list for an MRI which might not be until April next year.
Meanwhile, she has the ‘option’ of shelling out $1300 bucks and getting it done this week.
How is this not criminal extortion?
[EDIT: thanks, everyone for the well-wishes. I took Mom for her scan yesterday. Now we wait a couple weeks for the result…]
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I'm attending.
Event info:
Experts from #UVic and #IslandHealth discuss safety, evidence, and patient impact of #ArtificialIntelligence (AI) in #healthcare and #research.
Free & open to everyone, but registration is required.
In-person event.
Virtual Option: Zoom link sent after registration.Moderated #PanelDiscussion with Audience Q+A
Refreshments provided.Panelists:
Dr. Elizabeth Borycki, University of Victoria
Dr. Andre Kushniruk, University of Victoria
Christopher Picard, Island Health
Graham Payette, Island Health
These panelists bring expertise from research, clinical care, and health systems to explore how AI can be used safely, ethically, and effectively in real-world healthcare.
Moderators:
Dr. Jodie Gawryluk, University of Victoria
Cindy Trytten, Island Health
Hosted by Island Health and the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria.
Email [email protected] for questions or media inquiries.
#BCHealth #AI #Medical #HealthCareWorkers #MedicalPatients #HealthCareSystems #PublicHealth #MedicalCare #Educational #VictoriaBC #YYJ #CommunityHealthCare #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #AccessibleEvent
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#ThrowbackThursday 2022.
I miss Dad very much 😢 ❤️ He's been gone for over 2 years now.
I remember this day well. It was an excellent family bonding day. We had a nice dinner after a short walk together. 3 months after this photo was taken, Dad had to go to ER for a leg muscles issue. He was infected with covid by unmasked hospital staff. It happened shortly after our eugenics government removed public masking mandates. Dad ended up dying from covid related cardiac arrest, the following Summer.I have never forgiven the #BCgovernment or #unmasked #hospital staff for killing my Dad. We had him fully protected with home #caregiving for years. It took less than 2 days in hospital for him to get #covid.
Please #WearAMask. Please don't let my Dad & others who died from getting covid from unmasked people, to be forgotten. It could be you or your family members, next. Covid doesn't care if you believe in it or not - it will end up wrecking your life, one way or another.
#AsianMastodon #RIPDad #CovidDeaths #CovidKills #MasksSaveLives #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #CovidCautious #CovidIsAirborne #AirborneIllness #AirborneInfections #virology #medical #health #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #Eugenics #FailureToProtect #PublicAccountability #PublicScrutiny #PublicTransparency #FireBonnieHenry #CovidFailure #BCMedical #BCHealth #MedicalMurders #SocialMurder #GovernmentPoliciesKill #FamilyPhotos #FamilyMemories
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Not a single political party in BC cares about #CovidSafety. All of them have opted to go along with #eugenics #PublicHealth policies. Further marginalizing people like me, my Mom, every disabled person, every elderly person, every child & every cautious citizen who is still trying to prevent getting sick from #covid & other #AirborneIllnesses. We have been abandoned by every single politician in BC & federally too. This is government folks doing passive #dehumanization of us. Our lives matter even if they #dehumanize us by normalizing public health eugenics.
#BCpoli #CDNpol #PeopleWithDisabilities #Immunocompromised #FailureToProtect #Health #Medical #MasksSaveLives #MaskUp #BCHealth #FireBonnieHenry #CovidStillKills #LongCovidIsReal #ZeroCovid #WearAMask #DisabledLivesMatter #marginalized #BCNDP #BCGreens #BCConservatives #neoliberals #PlagueSpreaders
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☝🏻may be a follow-up to major Sim & ABC Party's Nov 2024 attempt to reverse 2016 bylaw which "gradually phases out natural gas for space and water heating in most new building types by 2025".
""Natural" gas in this way is the single largest source of carbon pollution in the city"
Vancouver citizens protested. The motion, in the end, was defeated.
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Another *last minute amendment* to controversial #Vancouver 2026 Budget.
Mayor Sim, ABC Party majority, and allies have cut $8.2 million from Vancouver's existing retrofit program to make rental buildings less polluting and safer during climate disasters (cooling during #extremeheat)
"The climate crisis is making extreme heat more common, inflicting a deadly toll: the 2021 heat dome alone was responsible for 117 deaths in the city. Buildings are also responsible for about 60% of Vancouver's greenhouse gas emissions, largely because of gas heating." (600+ deaths in B.C. during #BCheatdome)
UBC professor:
"The word 'retrofit' is insufficient to explain the programs Vancouver's ABC part is cutting. It kind of makes it sound like this is a luxury, but cooling and living in a safe home is a human right."
Stand.Earth found, through FOI, trove of emails suggesting "provincial gas utility has had the retrofit program in its crosshairs since at least last year"
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/news/vancouver-housing-retrofit-cuts
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Lheidli T'enneh First Nation bans herbicides -- particularly glyphosate -- in north central B.C.
Toxic chemicals such as GMO pose potential negative impacts on #biodiversity, the health & well-being of people, and wildlife.
"Historically, glyphosate has been used as part of an annual effort to eradicate broadleaf trees such as aspen and birch, in order to make more room for commercially valuable species of trees like pine and Douglas fir."
The B.C. NDP government has promised to phase out the use of glyphosate.
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“Interior Health (IH), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, is engaging with partners to better support overnight emergency care through a mix of virtual and on-site staffing, which is expected to enable more consistent access by reducing unplanned service interruptions. Engagement is underway with physicians, staff, Indigenous and local governments to better understand perspectives and integrate them into the planning for the pilots planned at community hospitals in Clearwater, Nakusp, Lillooet, and Princeton.”
#InteriorHealth #BCHealth
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Seeing a definite uptick in ER closures around the province lately. I wonder if there’s some kind of virus circulating?
“Temporary service interruption at South Okanagan General Hospital emergency department
October 5, 2025”#BCHealth #InteriorHealth #OliverBC
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It’s crazy how this has become normalized now.
FYI #WilliamsLakeBC is a major population center in the #Cariboo region supporting around ~23,000 people.
#BCHealth #InteriorHealth #BCPoli
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I want to go speak to BC Government in the legislature & share how the #BCNDP & #BonnieHenry are both complicit in killing my Dad.
#PeopleWithDisabilities #BCHealth #BCMedical #HospitalER #HospitalSafety #CovidIsNotOver #Covid #MaskUp #BringBackMaskMandates #FireBonnieHenry #BCNDP #BCpoli #FailureToProtect #Eugenics #MasksSaveLives #LongCovidIsReal #Airborne #HealthCanada #CDNpoli #MedicalFails #BCNewDeathParty #SocialMurder #NewDeathParty #BonnieHenry #AdrianDix #DavidEby #BCNDPKillingPeople
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This is my stitched #PSA for bringing back #MaskMandates in all #hospitals. Please boost/share on your other networks to try to support protecting vulnerable patients in hospitals.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/96WZ0BXFRxk
#PeopleWithDisabilities #BCHealth #BCMedical #HospitalER #HospitalSafety #CovidIsNotOver #Covid #MaskUp #BringBackMaskMandates #FireBonnieHenry #BCNDP #BCpoli #FailureToProtect #Eugenics #MasksSaveLives #LongCovidIsReal #Airborne #HealthCanada #CDNpoli #MedicalFails #BCNewDeathParty #SocialMurder #NewDeathParty #BonnieHenry #AdrianDix #DavidEby #BCNDPKillingPeople
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I'm sweating with anxiety & terrified my Mom's going to get infected in hospital without masking mandates & possibly die from that - like my Dad did. I'm a bit shaky from worrying.
#PeopleWithDisabilities #BCHealth #BCMedical #HospitalER #HospitalSafety #CovidIsNotOver #Covid #MaskUp #BringBackMaskMandates #FireBonnieHenry #BCNDP #BCpoli #FailureToProtect #Eugenics #MasksSaveLives #LongCovidIsReal #Airborne #HealthCanada #CDNpoli #MedicalFails #BCNewDeathParty
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@rlstone4dems
We need #MaskMandates in all #hospitals - all the time. It's simply not safe without them. Patients need more protections than they're currently receiving.#MasksSaveLives #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #PublicHealth #BCHealth #eugenics #BCMedical #BCpoli #COVIDisAirborne #BCNDP #FailureToProtect
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@thetyee
Post-pandemic is an ignorant, irresponsible #eugenics term - when #CovidIsNotOver.
More people are becoming #disabled from #LongCovid & BC government is trying to cut funding for the long covid clinic in Victoria.
#CovidRelatedDeaths aren't being called that either - the public deserves much more public health/medical transparency. Our PHO is a #eugenist who has endangered #PublicHealth.#CovidStillKills #BChealth #Medical #CovidDeniers #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #BCpoli
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This comes right on the heels of #BCgovernment trying to shutdown / stop funding the only #LongCovid clinic for patients in #VictoriaBC - which serves patients on the island & surrounding Gulf Islands.
This #BCNDP government is failing patients on multiple fronts.#BCHealth #BCMedical #PublicHealth #BCNewDeathParty #HealthcareCrisis #FireBonnieHenry #FailureToProtect #Healthcare #MedicalCare #BCpoli #PatientRights #CDNpoli #YYJ #PeopleWithDisabilities #Eugenics #Ableism #HumanRights
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⚕️Health Canada has authorized COMIRNATY® COVID-19 vaccine, adapted for the LP.8.1 variant.
The Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will be available in Fall 2025 for individuals aged 6 months and older.