What many people don’t realize is that the safety of all road users also improves when more people choose two wheels—as cities experience a decrease in traffic crashes, serious injuries, and deaths.
B.C.'s epidemic of drug-overdose deaths is now so severe that illicit narcotics are single-handedly responsible for dragging down the average lifespan for the population of the entire province.
Amanda Page Brown completed her training to become an end-of-life doula last November and now is trying to secure funding to work full time as a death doula in the area of Vancouver hit hardest by Canada's overdose crisis.
No one can fault parents for making every attempt imaginable to help a child who has become addicted to drugs, but some efforts have a risk of unintended consequences, a new paper cautions.
Legionnaires' disease is a severe form of pneumonia that's especially dangerous for the elderly, children, pregnant women, and those with chronic lung conditions.
Earlier this year, the cofounder of Last Door Recovery Society, Louise Cooksey, told the Straight that the Royal City is an ideal location because the city has been extremely supportive of the recovery movement.
