As COVID-19 cases creep back up, mask mandate needed, says B.C. disease modeller

Credit to Author: Lora Grindlay| Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 20:47:34 +0000

The COVID-19 modelling group’s latest report suggests the growth rate of the Omicron BA.2 variant is almost four per cent a day in B.C. and doubling every 15 to 20 days.

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Daphne Bramham: Canada's broken system punishes high-skilled immigrants

Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:45:23 +0000

Opinion: It’s anathema to Canada’s fast-tracking of high skilled immigrants that their progress quickly stalls when they try to get licensed.

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Daphne Bramham: As government fiddles on foreign-trained doctors, B.C. citizens suffer

Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 03:00:50 +0000

Opinion: A constitutional challenge by foreign-trained doctors to barriers barring them from practise is a baby step closer to being heard.

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Daphne Bramham: Are public policy-makers making B.C.'s drug crisis worse?

Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 22:24:32 +0000

Opinion: There’s no evidence that B.C.’s ‘safer supply’ of drugs to addicts outside a clinical setting is working. Could it be making things worse?

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Daphne Bramham: Crucial talk of validity of opioid safe supply falling on deaf ears

Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 23:45:40 +0000

Opinion: Safe supply advocates say providing prescription drugs would solve Canada’s opioid overdose crisis. But Alberta policy-makers ask for proof.

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