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HEALTH – Sick and tired (and in pain) over health-care wait times

April 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

By BACCHUS BARUA Analyst The Fraser Institute VANCOUVER – The Canadian Institute for Health Information’s annual tracking of wait times for priority procedures is out and [Continue]

CHIDIAC – Building digital bridges of tolerance and understanding

April 7, 2017 // 1 Comment

IN HIS BOOK The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey tells us that we should “seek first to understand and then to be understood.” It’s one of the key [Continue]

HEALTH – Canada answering the global need for health research

April 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

By STEVEN HOFFMAN Scientific director Institute of Population and Public Health Canadian Institutes of Health Research FRIDAY IS World Health Day, which should remind us that [Continue]

OMBUDSPERSON’S REPORT: ‘Flawed 2012 investigation, rushed decisions had widespread repercussions’

April 6, 2017 // 1 Comment

Edited slightly for brevity, here is today’s (April 6, 2017) press statement from B.C. Ombudsperson Jay Chalk on the investigation into Ministry of Health employee firings, [Continue]

MONEY – Tax free savings accounts: controlling your financial destiny

April 2, 2017 // 1 Comment

By JOE BATTY CFO, Troy Media Digital Solutions Ltd. ARE YOU ONE of the six million Canadians who have opened a tax free savings account (TFSA)? Have you ever wondered about [Continue]

HEALTH – No April Fool’s joke, healthcare centre ‘no longer operates a public walk in clinic’

April 1, 2017 // 5 Comments

This is no April Fools joke. The NorKam Healthcare Centre closed its doors to new walk-in patients as of end of day on Friday, March 31, 2017, as previously announced. The [Continue]