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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

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

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

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

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

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

#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

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

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

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

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

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

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
https://mastodon.online/@cfjc_today/115316609123709618

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
https://mastodon.online/@cfjc_today/115316609123709618

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
https://mastodon.online/@cfjc_today/115316609123709618

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

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

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

@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

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

Mom's appointment went well. We have a follow-up in 3 months. More kidneys blood work needed; we left with another lab requisition.

#AsianMastodon #MaskUpSaveLives #WearAMask #MasksSolidarity #PutAMaskOn #CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #CovidisAirborne #BCHealth #BCMedical #endocrinologist #medical #PublicHealth

Mom's appointment went well. We have a follow-up in 3 months. More kidneys blood work needed; we left with another lab requisition.

#AsianMastodon #MaskUpSaveLives #WearAMask #MasksSolidarity #PutAMaskOn #CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #CovidisAirborne #BCHealth #BCMedical #endocrinologist #medical #PublicHealth

Empty waiting rooms are my fave!

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #MaskUpSaveLives #WearAMask #Medical #Healthcare #CovidInformed #BCHealth #FireBonnieHenry #PeopleWithDisabilities #UltrasoundClinic #WaitingRoom

The first in office appointment with my new family doctor has just been booked for this Friday morning. I have the first appointment of the day & the doctor has assured me that he & staff will be masked up, as I've requested 😷⚕️
I tend to ask for first slot of the morning when booking medical appointments - to avoid running into a bunch of unmasked patients in waiting rooms.

I'll be asking if he will consider taking on my youngest brother as a new patient too because that bro still doesn't have a family doctor. He's been on the government waitlist for 2+ years.

I'm off to get mammogram now & then working on updating client files all afternoon. Remote(safer) work today 👍

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #MaskUpSaveLives #WearAMask #Medical #WearN95s #MasksSolidarity #StopAbleism #StopEugenics #FireBonnieHenry #BCHealth #BCMedical #BCHealthCrisis

The first in office appointment with my new family doctor has just been booked for this Friday morning. I have the first appointment of the day & the doctor has assured me that he & staff will be masked up, as I've requested 😷⚕️
I tend to ask for first slot of the morning when booking medical appointments - to avoid running into a bunch of unmasked patients in waiting rooms.

I'll be asking if he will consider taking on my youngest brother as a new patient too because that bro still doesn't have a family doctor. He's been on the government waitlist for 2+ years.

I'm off to get mammogram now & then working on updating client files all afternoon. Remote(safer) work today 👍

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #MaskUpSaveLives #WearAMask #Medical #WearN95s #MasksSolidarity #StopAbleism #StopEugenics #FireBonnieHenry #BCHealth #BCMedical #BCHealthCrisis

The first in office appointment with my new family doctor has just been booked for this Friday morning. I have the first appointment of the day & the doctor has assured me that he & staff will be masked up, as I've requested 😷⚕️
I tend to ask for first slot of the morning when booking medical appointments - to avoid running into a bunch of unmasked patients in waiting rooms.

I'll be asking if he will consider taking on my youngest brother as a new patient too because that bro still doesn't have a family doctor. He's been on the government waitlist for 2+ years.

I'm off to get mammogram now & then working on updating client files all afternoon. Remote(safer) work today 👍

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #MaskUpSaveLives #WearAMask #Medical #WearN95s #MasksSolidarity #StopAbleism #StopEugenics #FireBonnieHenry #BCHealth #BCMedical #BCHealthCrisis

The first in office appointment with my new family doctor has just been booked for this Friday morning. I have the first appointment of the day & the doctor has assured me that he & staff will be masked up, as I've requested 😷⚕️
I tend to ask for first slot of the morning when booking medical appointments - to avoid running into a bunch of unmasked patients in waiting rooms.

I'll be asking if he will consider taking on my youngest brother as a new patient too because that bro still doesn't have a family doctor. He's been on the government waitlist for 2+ years.

I'm off to get mammogram now & then working on updating client files all afternoon. Remote(safer) work today 👍

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #MaskUpSaveLives #WearAMask #Medical #WearN95s #MasksSolidarity #StopAbleism #StopEugenics #FireBonnieHenry #BCHealth #BCMedical #BCHealthCrisis

The first in office appointment with my new family doctor has just been booked for this Friday morning. I have the first appointment of the day & the doctor has assured me that he & staff will be masked up, as I've requested 😷⚕️
I tend to ask for first slot of the morning when booking medical appointments - to avoid running into a bunch of unmasked patients in waiting rooms.

I'll be asking if he will consider taking on my youngest brother as a new patient too because that bro still doesn't have a family doctor. He's been on the government waitlist for 2+ years.

I'm off to get mammogram now & then working on updating client files all afternoon. Remote(safer) work today 👍

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #MaskUpSaveLives #WearAMask #Medical #WearN95s #MasksSolidarity #StopAbleism #StopEugenics #FireBonnieHenry #BCHealth #BCMedical #BCHealthCrisis

*My social justice activist friend, Crystal, was interviewed for this article.*

As the City of Victoria conducts what outreach workers say are deadly sweeps of Pandora Avenue, those who facilitate unhoused individuals into addiction rehabilitation centres say there’s not enough spaces to meet the needs of those who are left on the capital city’s streets.

“What I’m faced with is, where am I sending them?” said Theresa Reeve, executive director of the relatively new non-profit Westcoast Recovery Outreach.

Reeve says private treatment centres only take a select number of government-funded clients, leaving empty beds open for higher paying private clients.

“I could fill up their treatment centre if they would allow me,” said Reeve. “But they only let a few government-funded beds. We need to increase those government funded beds. These people deserve a chance just like everybody else.”

“People having to wait anywhere from two weeks to three months waiting to get into a detox bed is not acceptable. We need a better system now. We just had an election about. Where are all the beds they promised they were going to build?”

The Minister of Health told CHEK News in a statement that her government is adding new services without specifics.

https://cheknews.ca/not-enough-housing-or-rehab-beds-for-victorias-most-broken-says-outreach-worker-1228846/

#BCpoli #YYJpoli #BuildSocialHousing #BChousing #HousingCrisis #OutreachWorkers #FrontlineWorkers #RehabBedsNeeded #BCHealth #AddictionsTreatment #YYJ #VictoriaBC #CutTheRedTape #AccessToTreatment #HelpTheHomeless #HouseTheHomeless #BCNDP #HumanRights #AddictsAreHumans #StopTheStigma #HelpTheMarginalized #StopJudgingStartHelping #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #OurCommunityIncludesHomeless

#BCNDP unelected & current #BCPremier #DavidEby flips on forced treatment/involuntary care. They're leaning more to the right - taking same policy positions on addiction & mental health as the BC #Conservatives 👎People need mental wellness services to be included under Pharmacare because it hasn't been included. People can't afford to access many services that would help them a lot. There's long wait lists for the very few free to access programs. We need better funding for public health that includes mental health & addictions because they're interconnected.

[ #BritishColumbia will be opening secure facilities to provide #InvoluntaryCare under the #MentalHealth Act for those with severe #addictions who are mentally ill, the premier announced Sunday, just days ahead of the start of a provincial election campaign.

David Eby pledged the #NDP would change the law in the next legislative session to "provide clarity and ensure that people, including youth, can and should receive care when they are unable to seek it themselves."

"People with addiction challenges, brain injuries and mental-health issues need compassionate care and direct and assertive intervention to help them stabilize and rebuild a meaningful life," he said in a news release.]

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/eby-pledges-involuntary-care-for-severe-addictions-in-bc-ahead-of-october-election-9524136

#BCpoli #ForcedTreatment #BCElection2024 #ElectionsBC2024 #OctoberElection #BCVotes2024 #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #PublicHealth #BChealth

#BCNDP unelected & current #BCPremier #DavidEby flips on forced treatment/involuntary care. They're leaning more to the right - taking same policy positions on addiction & mental health as the BC #Conservatives 👎People need mental wellness services to be included under Pharmacare because it hasn't been included. People can't afford to access many services that would help them a lot. There's long wait lists for the very few free to access programs. We need better funding for public health that includes mental health & addictions because they're interconnected.

[ #BritishColumbia will be opening secure facilities to provide #InvoluntaryCare under the #MentalHealth Act for those with severe #addictions who are mentally ill, the premier announced Sunday, just days ahead of the start of a provincial election campaign.

David Eby pledged the #NDP would change the law in the next legislative session to "provide clarity and ensure that people, including youth, can and should receive care when they are unable to seek it themselves."

"People with addiction challenges, brain injuries and mental-health issues need compassionate care and direct and assertive intervention to help them stabilize and rebuild a meaningful life," he said in a news release.]

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/eby-pledges-involuntary-care-for-severe-addictions-in-bc-ahead-of-october-election-9524136

#BCpoli #ForcedTreatment #BCElection2024 #ElectionsBC2024 #OctoberElection #BCVotes2024 #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #PublicHealth #BChealth

#BCNDP unelected & current #BCPremier #DavidEby flips on forced treatment/involuntary care. They're leaning more to the right - taking same policy positions on addiction & mental health as the BC #Conservatives 👎People need mental wellness services to be included under Pharmacare because it hasn't been included. People can't afford to access many services that would help them a lot. There's long wait lists for the very few free to access programs. We need better funding for public health that includes mental health & addictions because they're interconnected.

[ #BritishColumbia will be opening secure facilities to provide #InvoluntaryCare under the #MentalHealth Act for those with severe #addictions who are mentally ill, the premier announced Sunday, just days ahead of the start of a provincial election campaign.

David Eby pledged the #NDP would change the law in the next legislative session to "provide clarity and ensure that people, including youth, can and should receive care when they are unable to seek it themselves."

"People with addiction challenges, brain injuries and mental-health issues need compassionate care and direct and assertive intervention to help them stabilize and rebuild a meaningful life," he said in a news release.]

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/eby-pledges-involuntary-care-for-severe-addictions-in-bc-ahead-of-october-election-9524136

#BCpoli #ForcedTreatment #BCElection2024 #ElectionsBC2024 #OctoberElection #BCVotes2024 #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #PublicHealth #BChealth

#BCNDP unelected & current #BCPremier #DavidEby flips on forced treatment/involuntary care. They're leaning more to the right - taking same policy positions on addiction & mental health as the BC #Conservatives 👎People need mental wellness services to be included under Pharmacare because it hasn't been included. People can't afford to access many services that would help them a lot. There's long wait lists for the very few free to access programs. We need better funding for public health that includes mental health & addictions because they're interconnected.

[ #BritishColumbia will be opening secure facilities to provide #InvoluntaryCare under the #MentalHealth Act for those with severe #addictions who are mentally ill, the premier announced Sunday, just days ahead of the start of a provincial election campaign.

David Eby pledged the #NDP would change the law in the next legislative session to "provide clarity and ensure that people, including youth, can and should receive care when they are unable to seek it themselves."

"People with addiction challenges, brain injuries and mental-health issues need compassionate care and direct and assertive intervention to help them stabilize and rebuild a meaningful life," he said in a news release.]

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/eby-pledges-involuntary-care-for-severe-addictions-in-bc-ahead-of-october-election-9524136

#BCpoli #ForcedTreatment #BCElection2024 #ElectionsBC2024 #OctoberElection #BCVotes2024 #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #PublicHealth #BChealth

#BCNDP unelected & current #BCPremier #DavidEby flips on forced treatment/involuntary care. They're leaning more to the right - taking same policy positions on addiction & mental health as the BC #Conservatives 👎People need mental wellness services to be included under Pharmacare because it hasn't been included. People can't afford to access many services that would help them a lot. There's long wait lists for the very few free to access programs. We need better funding for public health that includes mental health & addictions because they're interconnected.

[ #BritishColumbia will be opening secure facilities to provide #InvoluntaryCare under the #MentalHealth Act for those with severe #addictions who are mentally ill, the premier announced Sunday, just days ahead of the start of a provincial election campaign.

David Eby pledged the #NDP would change the law in the next legislative session to "provide clarity and ensure that people, including youth, can and should receive care when they are unable to seek it themselves."

"People with addiction challenges, brain injuries and mental-health issues need compassionate care and direct and assertive intervention to help them stabilize and rebuild a meaningful life," he said in a news release.]

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/eby-pledges-involuntary-care-for-severe-addictions-in-bc-ahead-of-october-election-9524136

#BCpoli #ForcedTreatment #BCElection2024 #ElectionsBC2024 #OctoberElection #BCVotes2024 #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #PublicHealth #BChealth

Briefly: Payments to #BCNDP #BCPremier DavidEby’s #HealthAdvisor were #hidden under a numbered company in the annual sunshine list.
Penny Ballem, who is also chair of #VancouverCoastalHealth, billed nearly $300,000 last year, exceeding #HealthMinister #AdrianDix’s salary.
The #PublicAccounts also reveal payments to NDP-aligned #advertising agencies and high salaries to #CrownCorporation heads.

https://thebreaker.news/business/2024-ndp-public-accounts

#BCpoli #PublicHealth #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #HealthCareFailure #BCHealth

#CancerWontWait - It’s time to build the #KamloopsCancerCentre https://www.cancerwontwait.ca/ #RIH #BCHealth #RuralHealth

Chasing a moving train: The #GeneralSurgery workforce versus population growth in British Columbia, 2012–2022 | British Columbia Medical Journal #BCMJ https://bcmj.org/articles/chasing-moving-train-general-surgery-workforce-versus-population-growth-british-columbia “Due to population growth and aging, the deficit in the number of full-time-equivalent #surgeons in BC increased from 74 to 105 between 2012 and 2022.”
#BCHealth #BCPoli

What #BonnieHenry means to say is that there will certainly be #covid all through our #bced schools this year, and she and this #BCndp will certainly do nothing to stop it.

My #immunocompromised #bced wife who hasn’t received a booster in a year will have no extra “layers of protection” with unmasked students/unclean air and #DBH is just fine with that.

This is our #BCndp govt’s submission to the virus, not ours.

Everyone in #bced is already sick regularly due to #bonniehenry and her don’t ask of covid, don’t tell of covid, not seeing covid, antimask ideology.

#BCPublicHealth is dead to me. My whole family just got covid a third time. We are suffering from this govt’s refusal to act in accordance with #science.

#DBH and #Dix together have squashed any respect/trust I had in our #BChealth system.

British Columbia is nothing but a beautifully disgusting #covid19bc cesspool due to the morally defunct “leadership” of this #BCndp.

@MatWright

#bcpoli #cdnpoli #AntiMaskBonnie #IHateBonnieHenry #NotMyPublicHealthOfficer #BCHealthIsBroken #NewDeathParty #NoDataParty #VoteThemOut

Global News BC: ‘Came back with a vengeance’: B.C. doctor urges flu shot as kids return to school https://globalnews.ca/news/9935657/bc-doctor-urges-flu-shot/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #pediatricinfectiousdiseasedoctor #BCCentreforDiseaseControl #newCOVID-19variantBA.2.86 #BCChildren'sHospital #Dr.DavidGoldfarb #BCinfluenzaB #influenzaB #BCflushot #BCdoctor #BChealth #Health #bcflu #rsv #BC

Dad got #covid this summer with my cousin and sister because they all just wanted a British family birthday here in #BC for his 80th.

We had been booked to join them up coast but found out two days prior to leaving. We called off the trip with several folks covid sick at the house we were planning to stay.

It was then we discovered #bcferries no longer refunds for covid cancellations, as to them the pandemic is over. We had to pay to drop our reservation days from our trip, knowing the ferry we had reserved would only be 75% full.

For #BritishColumbia businesses like #bcferries, ignoring the pandemic is just an extra cash grab. Book another ferry now, pay us 20 bucks or go get sick. They ultimately profited off our loss.

#LetErRip #NewDeathParty, #NoDataParty #BCndp, #BCmedia, #bonniehenry and #adriandix are the pack of unrepentant #GBD spiders who’ve spun this covid web of deception lulling our population into #complacency and #ableism.

Profit over kindness is what they’ve successfully preached.

We must vote every one of these anti mask, anti health covid #minimizers out. We must demand a true independent inquiry of this #bcndp and their #GreatBarrington #Eugenics #LetErRip #surrender to #covid19bc.

#BCndp needs to #FireBonnieHenry and attempt to restore trust in #BCHealth. British Columbia deserves true health leadership, not more #lies and #propaganda from a longtime corrupt govt shill.

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #Corruption #Capitalism #COVIDIsNotOver #masks4healthcare #Masks4All

Global News BC: Stay on top your immunizations, B.C. doctors warn ahead of fall ‘tripledemic’ https://globalnews.ca/news/9900402/fall-respiratory-season-bc-doctors/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #backtoschoolhealthconcerns #RespiratoryIllnesses #adviceforfluseason #RespiratoryViruses #RespiratorySeason #Dr.BonnieHenry #BChealthcare #Tripledemic #covid-19bc #FluSeason #Influenza #BChealth #Health #COVID #rsv

Global News BC: Northern Vancouver Island residents hold rally amid rural health-care staffing issues https://globalnews.ca/news/9545287/northern-vancouver-island-health-care-staff-rally/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #NorthVancouverIslandresidents #NorthernVancouverIsland #BChealthcareservices #bchealthcarestaffing #BChealthcarerally #BChealthcare #NorthIsland #PortMcNeill #AdrianDix #PortHardy #AlertBay #BChealth #BCRally #Health

#BritishColumbia #LowerMainland had almost 100 calls in queue for an #ambulance Thursday night as government officials #warned people to #StayOffRoads because of #frigid temperatures & #treacherous conditions.
As of 9 p.m., at least 96 callers were waiting for an ambulance, The #GlobeAndMail has learned. More than 40% of ambulances in the Lower Mainland were #unstaffed .

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-bc-ambulance-shortage/

#BCHealth #paramedics #StaffShortage #medical #Winter #emergencies #911calls