Six years after then-provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall declared a public health emergency, about six or seven people a day are dying of drug overdose in B.C. Calls for a bold response…
Premier David Eby is preparing to spend more money to help First Nations communities plan their forest strategies, in a bid to “accelerate” the amount of old growth the province…
“Just because things are stalled, that money isn’t necessarily gone.” –Dr. Liam Kelly Special to Northern Beat It’s been over a year since the province reached an agreement with Blueberry…
Smaller communities up and down British Columbia aren’t getting their fair share of drug treatment options, safe supply services or equitable decriminalization, and it’s costing lives in the ongoing overdose…