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Which is the image that popped to mind while poring over the mind-numbing numbers in the new provincial budget revealed Tuesday. Stuff like this: “B.C.’s taxpayer-supported debt is projected to be $71.6 billion at the end of fiscal years 2021-22, $82.8 billion at the end of 2022-23, and $92.7 billion at the end of 2023-24.” That’s it? A measly $92.7 billion? Jeez, you couldn’t buy a Gordon Head bungalow for $92.7 billion. If you want to see real debt, compare B.C. to the federal government, whose Monday budget will push the national IOU to over $1 trillion. That’s with a T, as in Trudeau.
I was so dismayed when we were paired off with a young couple from Calgary who said they were on a “road trip.” I feel that our whole year of being so cautious may have been put in jeopardy. What is the sense of preaching to the residents of B.C. to stay home, don’t travel and be safe if others don’t have to follow the same practice? It’s time to preach and mandate that to other Canadians to stay home until this pandemic is under control. Walter Hill Better medical care with in-person visits Thank you to the concerned Victoria emergency physicians for their lucid, coherent accounting of their perceived abuses of telemedicine and its inherent inadequacies.
NORTH COWICHAN, B.C. - A new hospital will become a place of healing for members of a British Columbia Indigenous nation after decades of fear associated with the current institution, a tribal leader said Thursday.
He says Cowichan Tribes members want to rebuild that trust after feeling they had to enter the current hospital through the back door.
Earlier this year, Cowichan Tribes leaders said racist comments were directed at tribal members by some members of the non-Indigenous community after a COVID-19 outbreak was declared on the reserve.
Health Minister Adrian Dix told a news conference that racism in health care exists, citing a report last year that found widespread systemic racism towards Indigenous Peoples in B.C. s health-care system.
Dix says the new hospital will be three times larger than the current Cowichan District Hospital in nearby Duncan and will be complete in 2026.