Re: Editorial – Who won and who lost in court’s rejection of private health care? For the past number of years I have enjoyed your comments on the news program [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PUBLIC HEALTH CARE scored a victory in court with the rejection of an attempt by Dr. Brian Day to have legislation that prohibits double [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THIRTEEN PREMIERS wrapped up two days of meetings yesterday. As expected, health care was the big agenda item. Coincidentally, as the [Continue]
I SUGGEST that a new government agency, I’m calling BC Clinics, be established to deal with the crisis in accessibility to health care. The fee-for-service model no longer [Continue]
THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE WEEK may have come on Monday, when Statistics Canada released some results from its Canadian Social Survey. It reported that the province whose [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE DOCTOR SHORTAGE was the subject of a presentation to Kamloops City council on Tuesday that was both highly encouraging and decidedly [Continue]
WHILE DOCTORS weren’t happy with Medicare at first, they eventually approved of the pay model. Doctors went on strike in Saskatchewan when Medicare was first enacted in [Continue]
Excerpts from Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Monday, May 2, 2022. T. Stone: Only in NDP land would they say that presiding over an increase of 200,000 British [Continue]
ALMOST ONE MILLION PEOPLE in our province are without a family doctor. That’s one in five people who don’t have primary care. No one they can reach out to, to look after [Continue]
HEALTHCARE IN RURAL and small-town B.C. is coming apart at the seams, and the NDP government of Premier John Horgan, and in particular Health Minister Adrian Dix, are letting [Continue]
LIKE MOST CANADIANS, I’d like to die in my home surrounded by friends and family. Canadians consistently indicate that is their preference, about 85 per cent of the [Continue]
CANADA DOESN’T HAVE a shortage of doctors; we have a closed shop that prevents foreign-trained doctors from practicing. The medical establishment prevents them from [Continue]
The COVID pandemic has gone viral. I don’t mean the Delta variant. I mean the mania created by antivaxxers who have whipped up opposition to panic levels. Antivaxxers are [Continue]
By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops- South Thompson I THINK MOST OF US IN KAMLOOPS feel like we’re at our limit. Between an intense fire season that has devastated communities, [Continue]