Healthcare

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]

STONE – Horgan, NDP have turned their backs on health care in Kamloops

August 29, 2021 // 2 Comments

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]

EDITORIAL – Health care by telephone likely to stay after pandemic is over

March 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF YOU’VE HAD TO TALK to your family doctor or nurse practitioner in the past year, chances are you’ve been doing it by phone [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Nothing like a night in ER to make us appreciate health care

February 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

IF YOU HAPPENED to spend the night on a gurney in the Emergency Department hallway recently, you would have gotten a pretty good idea of the challenges faced by our [Continue]

LETTER – Let’s support our healthcare workers in every way we can

February 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

Regarding the recent Covid-19 outbreak at RIH, there are some things the public should consider. Not everyone is the spouse of a healthcare worker (their main squeeze) or [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Canadians want pharmacare plan covering prescriptions

October 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE October 29, 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has put Canada’s health care system under a microscope – revealing millions of people in this country [Continue]