Healthcare

IN THE LEDGE – Royal Inland nurses ‘under immense stress and pressure’

May 2, 2022 // 3 Comments

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]

COLLINS – Family medicine is almost a thing of the past

April 23, 2022 // 1 Comment

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]

FORSETH – How does cutting health services equate to better patient care?

January 21, 2022 // 4 Comments

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]

CHARBONNEAU – All I want is a good death. Is that too much to ask?

November 11, 2021 // 2 Comments

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]

CHARBONNEAU – Doctors’ cozy club limits our health care system

September 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

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]

CHARBONNEAU – The new threat to health care is not privatization, it’s viral

September 2, 2021 // 1 Comment

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]