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Article content The Nuxalk First Nation on B.C.’s Central Coast have issued a closure notice for all recreational fishing in their territory citing provincial emergency health orders barring non-essential travel and the risk posed by COVID-19 variants. Provincially, declining COVID-19 infection counts and increasing vaccination levels have sparked discussions about when more normal activities might resume. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or COVID-19: Nuxalk First Nation calls recreational angling closure in territory Back to video However, tra...

  VANCOUVER -- CTV News Vancouver has learned a vice president and chief operating officer at Vancouver Coastal Health has been abruptly removed from her position without any explanation to staff or senior administrators, and the health authority is refusing to discuss the issue publicly. Karin Olson, who is vice president and chief operating officer of the coastal district within VCH, was removed from her positions at the end of January in a move that came as a surprise to staff who’d worked under her at Lions Gate Hospital. “This unexpected news has come as quite a shock to many of...

On Jan. 19, about 75 elders, aged 65 and older, who live on the reserve received a first dose of the vaccine from the Nuxalk health team. But the next day, the team started to face serious technical difficulties. A VCH nurse sent an email to the Provincial Health Services Authority stating that the team was struggling with "very inconsistent Wi-Fi" and that she was tethering internet service from her cellphone, which posed security issues. The nurse also said the First Nations Health Authority and VCH computer systems were not compatible, creating further issues — a fact that wa...