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St. Paul’s Hospital Burrard Street site for sale (New SPH)
The St. Paul’s Hospital 6.6-acre site on Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver is up for sale now that plans are moving forward for the replacement health care facility on False Creek Flats.
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Doctors for Protection from Guns want to make sure their voices are heard in the Canadian debate over revamping firearms legislation, producer PerlitaStroh writes.
Bookmark/Search this post withLocation, location, location: Downtown site of St. Paul's Hospital up for sale (New SPH)
If you’re in need of 6.6 acres in the heart of downtown Vancouver, you’re in luck, and could be the next owner of the land underneath St. Paul’s Hospital.
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The St. Paul’s Hospital site in Downtown Vancouver has quietly been put up for sale. But details are hard to come by.
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A 47-storey mixed-use tower is proposed for the corner of Burrard and Davie streets — a site that’s served various uses over the decades, including housing a Safeway at one point, a Shell station at another, and currently a community garden.
Bookmark/Search this post withFord defends decision to defund some supervised consumption sites (BCCSU)
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is defending his government’s decision to stop funding several supervised drug-use sites in the province, suggesting some are closing because they are too close together.
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The community is being invited to an upcoming event to help shape Foundry Ridge Meadows.
Bookmark/Search this post withStudy says B.C.'s housing policies mean drug users can be targeted for eviction (BCCSU)
British Columbia’s housing policies are allowing landlords to evict drug users in Vancouver’s rooming houses and there’s little or no recourse for people to defend themselves against a practice that is often illegal and creates a risk of overdose, a new study says.
Bookmark/Search this post withIs legalization a desperate measure or a solution to the opioid overdose crisis (BCCSU)
It’s too early to say whether the 31-per-cent decrease in B.C.’s number of overdose deaths in January due to fentanyl in illicit drugs means that there may be an end in sight to the public health emergency.
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People who use drugs and live in rental housing in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are at risk of being unlawfully evicted and often end up homeless as a result, says a new study by B.C. researchers.
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British Columbia’s housing policies are allowing landlords to evict drug users in Vancouver’s rooming houses, and there’s little or no recourse for people to defend themselves against a practice that is often illegal and creates a risk of overdose, a new study says.
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Dale Bracewell, the city’s manager of transportation planning, was in St. Paul’s Hospital getting x-rays Thursday.
Bookmark/Search this post withStudy says B.C.’s housing policies mean drug users can be targeted for eviction (BCCSU)
British Columbia’s housing policies are allowing landlords to evict drug users in Vancouver’s rooming houses and there’s little or no recourse for people to defend themselves against a practice that is often illegal and creates a risk of overdose, a new study says.
Bookmark/Search this post withWant more family doctors? Change how they work and get paid (Dr. Rita McCracken)
A Vancouver doctor says the tentative agreement British Columbia recently reached with the province's 14,000 doctors doesn't do enough to change family medicine and address what she describes as a crisis in primary care.
Bookmark/Search this post withNew Vancouver detox centre serves as a reflection of how attitudes around substance abuse have evolved (Dr. Keith Ahamad, BCCSU)
For all the chaos he experienced in some 30 years of drug addiction, Todd Kenneth’s lowest moment came when it was quiet, and he was alone.
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A new way of checking blood cholesterol levels is now in effect in British Columbia but a health-care provider says public awareness remains low about the change, even though it provides better results for doctors and is much easier on the patient.
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Law-enforcement seizures reveal fentanyl's creep into heroin and now cocaine (BCCSU)
On March 19, Vancouver Coastal Health used its drug-contamination-alerts system to issue a rare warning about cocaine.
Bookmark/Search this post withB.C. study uncovers deaths caused by medical device coatings coming loose (SPH)
The deaths of at least three people who had hospital procedures in Vancouver were caused by coatings that sloughed off medical devices like catheters and scattered through blood vessels to major organs, a major study has found.
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